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Dijous, 01 de juny de 2006

Alone? Baaaaad! Friend? Goooood!

The Monster, hearing the sounds of a violin, comes upon an old Blind Man. The Blind Man believes that God has granted his prayers for a friend and his happiness is genuine and emotional. He feeds the Monster and begins to teach him language. He also initiates the Monster into the High Life, teaching him to enjoy wine and smoke cigars. Wine, the Monster quickly discovers, and cigars, despite requiring fire (which is "Baaaaaad") are also "Goooood."

FRIENDS

Unlike the censorious society around him, the blind man — the monster's first mate — is not judgmental. He assumes that Frankenstein is a criminal, or someone in trouble, but says, "You needn't tell me about it if you don't want to." He is in fact open and loving: "I have prayed many times for God to send me a friend ... I shall look after you, and you will comfort me." He even refers to the two of them as children, hence innocent: "Out of the silence of the night ... you've brought two of your lonely children together." No mistake — this is a marriage, and a viable one. The monster wants to learn, the hermit wants to teach, and both are driven by a need for acceptance and love. But Whale reminds us quickly that society does not approve. The monster — the outsider — is driven from his scene of domestic pleasure by two gun-toting rubes who happen upon this startling alliance and quickly, instinctively, proceed to destroy it.

COMPLICITY=THINGS THAT ONLY YOU AND I CAN UNDERSTAND! MY FRIEND

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