Frankenstein Again

In my educational pursuits, I have been required to read certain selections multiple times. These titles are Shakespeare's Hamlet, Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Shelley's Frankenstein. However, I recognize that with the amount of literature piled before me each semester, I rarely was able to enjoy any of my readings.
I have selected Frankenstein as an option for next month's reading in the Great Work's Book Club. In this, I am trying to read ahead so I can spend time that month working on finding the background information to supply to club members to make the readings more enjoyable and understandable. Thus, for a third time, I have read this title. I must admit, this is the first time I feel like I have actually delved into the reading. I feel more accountable as he "leader" than I did as the "student." Therefore, I am more studiously applying myself to the reading and understanding of each text.
Through this reading, I noted the frequency that I picked up a dictionary to ensure my contextual reading of certain terms was correct. I think using a dictionary is a great tool to truly understand what an author is conveying. Aside from that, it is also a better way to solidify new words into my own vocabulary: not that I will typically use these words, but I can comprehend them better the next time I hear or read them.
I think my favorite aspect of this novel is stated by the monster himself. He is contemplating fire when he states, "How strange, I thought, that the same cause should produce such opposite effects!" To me, this is the drive of the tale. Frankenstein sought to create life for the joy of man, yet it brought sorrow and destruction, even death. The daemon also sought to procure similar travesty upon his creator and yet, when death finally assaults his master, he is despondent and retracts his previous determinations. His decision to punish his master created a punishment for himself. In this, there is caution to our true purposes and the consequences that we then no longer control.