Saturday, October 10, 2009

Conflicts: Frankenstein, book two, City of Night

There are a whole big bunch of conflicts in Frankenstein: book two, City of Night. Some of the main conflicts are: Victor Helios Frankenstein and the Old Race (humans), Deucalion and Victor Frankenstein, Randal Six and himself, Benny and Cindi Lovewell and Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison, and Benny and Cindi The gist of the conflicts are described below.
Victor versus the Old Race; Victor wants to infiltrate, and has a little already, the Old Race by terminating some humans and replacing them with New Race copies made by Victor. He also creates unique New Race members, too. Some for experiments, some for his employment, and some for replacement. Victor sends some of them into the world to live amongst the Old Race.
Deucalion versus Victor Frankenstein; Deucalion, Victor's first, failed attempt to make the perfect person, has different ideas. Deucalion wants to kill Victor so that he doesn't create any more New Race people so he doesn't take over and rule the world and command with his iron fisted malevolence.
Randal Six versus himself; Randal Six is of the New Race and Victor had programmed him to be a severe agoraphobic and severely autistic. Randal found a newspaper clipping of Carson O'Connor's autistic brother, Arnie, smiling with her. Randal has never smiled or been really happy before. He sets out of the Hands of Mercy, and old Catholic mental hospital that Victor turned into his laboratory. Randal is waging war against his autism and agoraphobia so he can venture all the way outside of Mercy to learn Arnie's secret to his happiness. He used his love of crossword puzzles to “spell” his way out of Mercy with each step he took.
Benny Lovewell and Cindi Lovewell versus Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison; Victor Frankenstein had created Benny and Cindi to be ruthless killing machine assassins. Frankenstein had sent them out to exterminate Carson and Michael so the Lovewells can help Victor nix Carson, Michael and Deucalion's plan to terminate Helios and his New Race. Carson and Michael's conflict was solved by the elusive Deucalion showing up and giving the Lovewells a hardcore beating.
Benny Lovewell versus Cindi Lovewell; Since they both really like their jobs, the were the perfect choice for assassinating Carson and Michael. All Benny wants is to get the job done quickly, and gruesomely. Cindi likes killing very much, too, but she wants something else,to have a baby with Benny, but they both know she can't. Now, the way the New Race was engineered, they were not created to be able to reproduce, or with the instinct that they had to. The New Race doesn't need to procreate. Cindi buys baby clothes in secret with a reluctant Benny, who doesn't understand what the fuss is all about and they argue. They try to solve their conflict by Cindi looking up Voodoo fertility rituals so that they can have a baby, and by Benny's giving in to Cindi's irrationality.

1 comment:

  1. You've selected a large handful of conflict here and described each one. You've done a nice job adding the "vs". It tells me you understand. Good work!

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