Just finished that this morning! Spoilers below. If you intend to read the book, do NOT go any further.
So the monster wakes up (we’re not told what caused this), Frankenstein is horrified at what he’s created (he knows what the fuckin’ thing looks like, he made it!), runs out in the street for 2 days, his bff spies him and takes him home. Frankenstein (who’s not a doctor BTW) runs upstairs and is relieved the monster has ambled off.
“Oh thank Heavens that 8-foot abomination before God is wandering around loose. Not my problem!”
We don’t get a solid description of the monster, but apparently he’s horrifying to behold. What? Did Frankenstein make him ugly on purpose?! We’re also not told where or how he came up with the biological material, no grave robbing is mentioned.
And I think the monster spent over 2 years in the shed? And in all that time no one ever looked in there?! He learns French by listening to them. So where did he learn English?!
Frankenstein is such a panicky little bitch that every time he gets upset he goes into a fugue and goes nuts for months on end. He does this at least 3 times, if not more. “Boo!” “I have to go to the sanatorium.”
The monster has already killed Frankenstein’s little brother and framed a close friend for it, getting her hanged. It threatens Frankenstein to continue fucking his world up if he doesn’t make a bride companion. Frankenstein and bff are going to Scotland where Frankenstein is going to secretly do this thing. He takes nearly a fucking year touring about. “Hadn’t you better hustle up in case the monster gets impatient?”
Frankenstein spies the monster watching him work on the bride, freaks out and destroys her right in from of him. Um, I would not piss off an 8-foot monster with superhuman speed and strength. Monster says, “Catch you on your wedding night! K I love U bye bye!” On his wedding night, Frankenstein, while looking around the house for the monster, sends his bride upstairs alone. You know what happens next.
So much more weirdness. And BTW, I think Frankenstein should have married his bff instead of his cousin, seemed way more into the guy than her.
EDIT: One more thing. Why did Shelly blank out the dates? August, 8th, 17__? 1701 was a very different time than 1799. What was that woman hiding?!
And worth noting that we can pretty directly thank the same thing that brought us Frankenstein for bringing us Dracula.
Frankenstein was written in the 1816 “year without summer” when Percy and Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and Byron’s doctor John Polidori were staying at a villa in Switzerland and held a writing contest. Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. Byron wrote “A Fragment”, which Polidori would later expand into The Vampyre, the first modern vampire novel that coalesces many modern ideas about vampires.
We don’t get a solid description of the monster, but apparently he’s horrifying to behold. What? Did Frankenstein make him ugly on purpose?!
Isn’t it explicitly mentioned he tried to make it beautiful but it all looks wrong once it’s alive? This part specifically:
His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.
Just finished that this morning! Spoilers below. If you intend to read the book, do NOT go any further.
So the monster wakes up (we’re not told what caused this), Frankenstein is horrified at what he’s created (he knows what the fuckin’ thing looks like, he made it!), runs out in the street for 2 days, his bff spies him and takes him home. Frankenstein (who’s not a doctor BTW) runs upstairs and is relieved the monster has ambled off.
“Oh thank Heavens that 8-foot abomination before God is wandering around loose. Not my problem!”
We don’t get a solid description of the monster, but apparently he’s horrifying to behold. What? Did Frankenstein make him ugly on purpose?! We’re also not told where or how he came up with the biological material, no grave robbing is mentioned.
And I think the monster spent over 2 years in the shed? And in all that time no one ever looked in there?! He learns French by listening to them. So where did he learn English?!
Frankenstein is such a panicky little bitch that every time he gets upset he goes into a fugue and goes nuts for months on end. He does this at least 3 times, if not more. “Boo!” “I have to go to the sanatorium.”
The monster has already killed Frankenstein’s little brother and framed a close friend for it, getting her hanged. It threatens Frankenstein to continue fucking his world up if he doesn’t make a bride companion. Frankenstein and bff are going to Scotland where Frankenstein is going to secretly do this thing. He takes nearly a fucking year touring about. “Hadn’t you better hustle up in case the monster gets impatient?”
Frankenstein spies the monster watching him work on the bride, freaks out and destroys her right in from of him. Um, I would not piss off an 8-foot monster with superhuman speed and strength. Monster says, “Catch you on your wedding night! K I love U bye bye!” On his wedding night, Frankenstein, while looking around the house for the monster, sends his bride upstairs alone. You know what happens next.
So much more weirdness. And BTW, I think Frankenstein should have married his bff instead of his cousin, seemed way more into the guy than her.
EDIT: One more thing. Why did Shelly blank out the dates? August, 8th, 17__? 1701 was a very different time than 1799. What was that woman hiding?!
everyone’s always surprised this was written by a teenage girl until they actually read the thing lol
And worth noting that we can pretty directly thank the same thing that brought us Frankenstein for bringing us Dracula.
Frankenstein was written in the 1816 “year without summer” when Percy and Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and Byron’s doctor John Polidori were staying at a villa in Switzerland and held a writing contest. Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. Byron wrote “A Fragment”, which Polidori would later expand into The Vampyre, the first modern vampire novel that coalesces many modern ideas about vampires.
Oh, so it’s the twilight of its era, that makes way too much sense.
Isn’t it explicitly mentioned he tried to make it beautiful but it all looks wrong once it’s alive? This part specifically: