Monsters all...

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m=E/(c×c)

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Are you one of the Munsters in disguise ?

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I am vaguely reminded of Twain's The Mysterious Stranger, at

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3186/3186-h/3186-h.htm#link2H_4_0001

Chapter 2, from "A kind of awe.." to the end of the chapter.

As to your questions, if a person needs a grand narrative for their life, none better than being in an emotionally tinged relationship with one's creator. The relationship you suggest seems like that between some of my Jewish friends and their creator. God learned something He didn't like about Himself, by seeing the outcome of His creation. We are a reflection.

Edit: or perhaps we are the component parts of God.

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Whether our creator is a god or Evolution the question is the same.

Can the murderer blame his genes or god?

Do we have free-will?
Are the atoms in our brains deterministic or random or governed by "spirit" .

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The Frankenstein story packs more meaning than Twain's story.

But I'd say its point about insignificance is that the creatures are insignificant to their creator but are not insignificant to themselves. The narrator is aghast at how Satan treats his creatures, and ironically Satan is able to seem lovable (to the narrator) anyway -- but not to the reader. There is stuff here to be unpacked about the contradictions of western religion.

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Interesting premise for a thread. I salute you. 🙂

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Spot on.

Quite a masterpiece for a young woman who created the story on a whim out of what some may consider an alcohol-fueled weekend dare.

Originally posted by wolfgang59
Whether our creator is a god or Evolution the question is the same.

Can the murderer blame his genes or god?

Do we have free-will?
Are the atoms in our brains deterministic or random or governed by "spirit" .

Yes, we have free will, and created from the mind of God, it could not be any other way.

In many ways, man is the director of his own destiny. Some use this for evil, some for good.

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The creation suffers even more the less perfect the creator. There must come a point at which the creation is entitled to receive an answer to the "Why have you created me thus?" question.

Thank goodness for free will. Other "creators" may not be able to confer this on their "creations", and the creations suffer for it. Thus revenge becomes an entirely appropriate motive if the creator is less skilled than necessary to create.

Originally posted by JS357
The Frankenstein story packs more meaning than Twain's story.

But I'd say its point about insignificance is that the creatures are insignificant to their creator but are not insignificant to themselves. The narrator is aghast at how Satan treats his creatures, and ironically Satan is able to seem lovable (to the narrator) anyway -- but not to the reader. There is stuff here to be unpacked about the contradictions of western religion.

Not sure I really see anything in the story that contradicts or "blames" religion, specifically western religion. (Don't get me started how many eastern religions are barely a 'religion'.)