Daniel Blakely Outside Reading 3

The class discussion on Mt Rainier brought me to think of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The idea of something being so great, so powerful, and so beautiful, yet still scares everyone who sees it. I found this amazing that a mountain, of such size and power, could be feared so much by the Indian people. I understand fully why they feared it, but after the class where Dr. Redick read out loud the Native Americans speech about the mountain I was shocked. It brought me back to the book Frankenstein which isn’t about a large green man. The actual “monster” is what is described as “the perfect man”. He is so large, so beautiful, so perfect, that he actually scares absolutely everyone. I felt this connects very much with the idea of the class discussion on the mask of the holy. Dr. Frankenstein created a perfect person, which in my mind would constitute a God figure, and that scared everyone by the simple sight. The monster needed to wear a disguise to mask his greatness and to be able to even be seen from a distance without the person feeling a sudden and over whelming feeling of fear.