‘The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created,…I thought I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her, but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death; her features appeared to change, and I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel.”
This phrase or paragraph can be related to the idea of Freud in the article The “Uncanny”. In his article, he mentions that “uncanny” “the class of terrifying which leads back to something long known to us” as he had created something that probably took him a while to achieve. In other words as far as my understanding he most likely has tried to experiment this creation before which may have been a failure in the past. He clearly states he has been working on this for about two years. To get to this state of goals as any other scientists he has tried and failed to achieve his task. When we think of the definition that Freud has provided we also know that due to the reason of no such encounters in the past, Frankenstein might be afraid of what he is about to experience. He is not impressed with the monster he had created as he had a whole other picture in his head which turned out to be so hideous. Frankenstein created something that looked like death and that was what frightened him. He wanted something that could give him the feeling of life and instead he did the opposite. His mother died and as per his dream he saw that he held the corpse and it had worms which can mean it was decomposing and that can be related to the monster he made as we know he described it as hideous. Obviously Frankenstein knows what happens to a corpse after it’s death and he had to experience the live features of this and it was his creation.
I disagree that Frankenstein is not impressed with the monster he has created. In my opinion it became too real, that the companionship that he longed for and created the monster for just frightened him. It seems like that saying “Be careful what you wish for because you might just get it”. A lot of the time people are frightened when they get what they want because they are waiting for the other shoe to drop so to speak.