Frankenstein: opening views

So far, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is probably the most entertaining of the novels we have read so far in AP Lit. This is probably in part due to the fact that a 19 year old girl that still had imagination wrote it. Also, I am a big fan of the Romantic and Gothic writers. In the first 10 chapters of Frankenstein a few things occurred to me. First of all, Hollywood got everything WRONG! I know that Hollywood isn't quite a literary topic but I feel that it needs to be said. The name Frankenstein for starters belongs to the creator's name, not the Creature. I have been ignorant of the this fact for 17 years. Also, Hollywood has Frankenstein walking around with his arms out like a zombie saying things like "duhhhh duhhhh thuhhhh." In other words, Hollywood's version of the creature is a mute with no thought process. In the novel Frankenstein, the creature is very articulate and speaks with the old "thees" and "thous." The creature also has articulate thought so its not as if the creature just speaks gibberish. On yet another note, Hollywood makes the creature seem as if its the bad guy. In my opinion, based upon the novel, the scientist Victor Frankenstein is the antagonist and the creature is simply a being caught up in Victor's wild natural science experiments. The creature is very much so both an Adam as well as a Satanic figure. He is isolated such as Adam was before Eve and he is the product of knowledge (God, which is metaphorically Victor). The Satanic portion of the creature is exemplified when he seemingly viciously attacks little William and kills him. The cross between innocence and pure evil is the paradox of the creature. Victor Frankenstein on the other hand, has made himself a God figure. He sees himself as the creator of life. This vain wish for glory only lasts as long as the creature is incomplete. After the creature is complete, Victor abandons it. He does not follow through on his rightful creator duties to guide the creature through life. He denies the creature of a companion and instead pushes him to exile. This is an allusion to the story of Cain, which also further exemplifies the allusion of the creature being a satanic figure. A further continuation of this allusion is that maybe the brother William was meant to be Able. This makes sense because Victor simply knows when he sees the creature that the creature (Cain) had killed William (Able). This makes Victor the all-knowing God figure from the biblical story. Victor then wants nothing to do with the creature and further abandons him, isolates him, and exiles him. It will be interesting to see if both Frankenstein and the Creature fulfill their biblical foreshadows.