Assignment: You are Doctor Frankenstein. The next day (after the night he succeeded in his experiment to bring life to a dead body) you write a diary entry to express your feelings in 200 words or more. Use the past tenses (3 past perfect forms ar least), adjectives to describe the creature, adjectives to describe your feelings and don't forget to describe the atmosphere.
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What have I done? What have I done? I've kept asking myself this very same question ever since I woke up this morning. I feel asleep in the courtyard last night and my back hurts a lot. Yet I kept wondering how could I have been so irresponsible and so impulsive? I created a monster for God's sake! Such an awful creature. He scares me so much, I was barely able to sleep. I don't know where he went or where he is and I'm hiding like a coward under the dinner table.
Cold has invaded my body, I feel like I'm freezing and shaking. But the cold is not the only thing responsible for my shaking body; fear, anticipation and the chilly atmosphere have a part in my state. What had I done? Where did I go wrong? I had always wanted to be a famous and successful scientist but look where I am now. Frightened by my own creature, my own catastrophe, my own atrocity. To my eyes he's worst than anything, worst than the devil himself. I can't believe I had worked so hard for two years, I had given up so many opportunities and beautiful travels for this- God I don't even know how to call that demoniacal corpse. My heart is beating fast every time I hear an eerie sound. To every wind blows, shivers are running down my spine. I feel so unsafe in my own house, I feel like a child on Halloween. I keep remembering his intimidating eyes that seem so atrocious. I'm just scared to death, I pray for someone to find me and help me.
All of the sudden, due to the recent events, I feel like Prometheus. Just like him I had tried to improve human existence and I had miserably failed. Just like him I thought I could've become better than God himself. From now on, I'll be remembered as the doctor who failed. This is who I am now, a poor, scared and stupid scientist who has given life to the devil's child. So, I repeat again, what have I done?
Words count: 354
Inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818)
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