Disclaimer: I don't own Victor or the story of Frankenstein. I do own the names I bestowed upon them, however.
This is part of a project I'm doing while reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in school. We had to name the creature and write it in Victor's voice. I hope I did a good job.
Often times as I grew older and seemed to become more and more a ghost of myself, I would ponder as to why, or for that matter how, I was still able to stand and face the cruel visage of reality as it seemed to tear away at my pathetic and wretched existence; the creature I had been so eager to generate in my foolish youth had now wrought so much misery and unhappiness upon me and my poor, yet oblivious, loved ones. I had aimed to produce life; I had received only death. I had wanted to make an angel with which people would be free of any pain; instead I received a devil of terrible strength which sought only destruction and terror.
Looking back on those long years, I realised, however, that I was as much to blame for its sins: had I not been a naïve fool, lives would not have been lost; my life would have been one filled with happiness and joy instead of the dreary and loathed existence I am doomed to live out now. I brought that atrocious demon into the world; I was the true culprit. Together, we were both at fault. I would never allow myself to think that horrible thought.
However, there was no denial to the unspeakable truth: I was the "Diable de la Vie", a devil of life condemned to reside every waking moment repenting for the sin of the ghastly life I had produced that fateful day many years ago. And, as for my creature? What other fitting name is there to give it other than "Ange de la Mort", for it truly is my angel of death: a monstrous fiend destined to taunt and torment my mind for all of eternity with the crimes and atrocities it has committed. Ah! That I would simply leave this plane of reality and peacefully reside among my siblings, friends, and parents; all whom I have lost in some way to the faults of myself and my foolish ambitions.
Please review if you feel like it! This was very fun (yet somewht challenging) to write.