Frankenstein by John Grant

Author:John Grant
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
Published: 2013-06-03T00:00:00+00:00

The Monster’s Tale

I can remember little about my first few hours of consciousness except confusion and pain and the sight of your face. Only later did I come to understand that the pain came from the wound that you had inflicted on my arm and that the expression on your face was one of loathing. At the time I had no way of knowing that these were not normal experiences for people coming into the world. Then you left me alone. I’ve said that you were my father, but really you were my mother – it was you who gave me life. When you abandoned me, you were like a mother abandoning her newborn baby. I didn’t understand this then, but I do understand it now. Are you surprised I hate you, Frankenstein?

I had some difficulty sorting out my senses. The light shining in through your laboratory windows was so dazzling that I could do nothing except stagger around, my hand across my eyes, hoping for the torment to end. As I did so, I discovered new sources of pain; soon I learned not to tread on the sharp pieces of glass on the floor, but it took me a little longer to discover I should not stumble into the hard corners of your bench or other objects. Every sound was deafening, especially my own screams of anguish. It didn’t occur to me that there might be any world outside that room, even though I could hear the noise from the street below.

Then, finally, night came, and with it the gentler moonlight. At last I was able to see. I looked out through the window and discovered that there was indeed a greater world – I saw the houses and buildings of Ingolstadt. At first I didn’t know what they were – it was as if I were looking at a flat picture and not understanding what it meant – but then I noticed people with forms much like my own, with two legs and two arms and a head, and I believed that they were just like me. I observed that they wore clothing to cover their bodies, and I hunted around to find similar garments with which I could cover myself. I didn’t know why the body should be covered.

I just wanted to be like those laughing, happy people I could see from the window. I found some of your clothes, Frankenstein, but of course none of them would fit me. In the end I tore the sheets from your bed and draped them around myself.

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