"Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart; I bore a hell within me which nothing could extinguish" (Frankenstein 84).
I have determined that Frankenstein is a crybaby. He complains and whines about everything. What did the doctor think was going to happen when he reanimated tissue. Did he think he was going to create some beautiful, handsome being?! He saw his creation before he gave it life, he had to have realized how ugly it was going to be when alive. It's not like the monster was suddenly going to become handsome when given life. Instead of thinking his plan through, Dr. Frankenstein creates this monster and then the moment it is given life he flees and wallows in self pity. He sits in his boat or goes on walks through the woods, and wails about his life even though the pain he is feeling is self-inflicted. I have know sympathy for Frankenstein, he acted rashly as a youth and is now paying for his stupid decision to mess with the supernatural sciences; serves him right. Plus all the scenes of Frankenstein crying make the book boring and frustrating. Who wants to listen to a grown man crying like a toddler?
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Frankenstein's actions definitely make it hard to sympathize with him. For someone smart enough to create an entirely new form of life, he was pretty stupid in not considering what would happen if he succeeded. I also agree that all of the nature and moping scenes make the book dull. I can understand him being sad, but it's annoying how he never tries to think things through and actually do something to fix his problems.
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