Creative Writing: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein-Personal Narrative

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Before long it was nightfall. I found myself going to bed contented; I was going into a deep sleep and when I awoke, I soon found myself in a strange and mysterious place where the sky was like an everlasting golden sunset!Three questions appeared in my mind: How did I get here? How do I escape? Where do I go from here? Frustration, confusion and anger reached their absolute peak and took the form of a savage beast with a shield for a heart, and a sword for a tongue and its eyes, its eyes! It saw into the fibre of my very being. It had a demonic form and it had snakes for hair, it uttered three small words with a big impact which shook my core. My heart was beating so fast it was a runaway train. If you think dying is harder think again, you haven’t seen anything yet. The three words echoed in my mind: ‘are you terrified?’My body instantly knew what to do before my brain: I ran. (What would you have done?) I looked back at the creature, and it smirked at me with its putrid face – instantly I knew it was all of my life’s troubles that had taken this form.I found myself in a desolate garden as the creature crept back into the darkness and disappeared.My mind was in a haze, I was in a trance that I couldn’t escape from, and I felt helpless …show more content…

As I was trapped in the eternal abyss, a voice cried out to me. However, this was unlike any voice, it was unique; it was as though a message had been called out from heaven. The voice told me to complete two trials in order to regain my memories and return home. It told me “you must go to the black forest where dread and misery lies.”I pondered, why can’t I remember, was I brought here by someone or something? Time seemed to stop. I thought of various scenarios and tried to figure it out by examining my

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