— Love the changing of the seasons as the monster loses hope and endures a winter of the soul.
— Now the monster has finished recounting his story and makes his request. An Eve for his Adam!
— “My food is not that of man...” HE’S A VEGETARIAN. This is so Percy’s influence, poster boy for vegetarianism in the early 1800s.
— I have to say I love how the novel slides between the minds of creator and created so smoothly: they’re opposites, they’re doubles, they’re eerily similar beings capable of love and destruction etc.


— Laying in the bottom of a boat is another big Percy Shelley mood.
— His anguish at remembering Clerval’s spirit/memory is great ~foreshadowing of events yet to be explained.
— Mary’s mother had some modest success with some travelogue-style fiction, which is what the ~travelling to England section is reminding me of.
— “But I am a blasted tree”. Victor is a wrecked soul.
— “Doomed to live.” Love this sentiment, and the allure of death as an escape and a release after all the devastation he has wrought.
— On his release, the dude that says “He may be innocent of the murder, but he has certainly a bad conscience.” SO CORRECT MY MAN.
— You know he’s really losing it now because all he can talk about is dreams / nightmares / needing laudanum to sleep. The paranoia! The heightened gothic madness of his brain!
— Justine “was as innocent as I” STFU VICTOR. You’re delusional.
— Elizabeth deserves better. D<
— Okay lmfao I forgot that Victor tells a magistrate the whole story. AFTER coming out of a mental institution. And you think that will help?? The ego of this man astounds me.
— Mmm devoted to each other’s destruction. ‘Til death do them part. Etc etc it’s dramatic and wretched and never would have happened if they had just been boyfriends or something.
— God I love the monster taunting him by leaving marks and messages on trees and laughing in his ear and ~disappearing, phantom-like. Haunt him, bby.
— Spotify play a spooky version of I Will Follow You Into The Dark.
— Walton is such a dumbass that he wants to know how the creature was made? NO DUDE DID YOU NOT HEAR THE MORAL WARNING IN THIS TALE OR WHAT?
— ‘“Since you have preserved my narration,” said he, “I would not that a mutilated one should go down in history.”’ @Lady and the meta irony of all Frankenstein adaptations being mutilated versions of this story!!!
— “Can any man be to me as Clerval was; or any woman another Elizabeth?” yeah yeah i know he’s talking about siblings and childhood friendships in this bit but just saying: #bisexualdisaster
— “the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.” Re: the monster’s last speech... wow I guess I read them together in high school but I don’t think I ever drew the monster/Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights) parallels the way I could have. They live out the same revenge!saga after being loathed and rejected. I’m having Thoughts and Ideas about this.
— And of course I’m tragically, emphatically sorry for the monster until the end. “I shall no longer see the sun or stars” he’s making me cry. The end. D:

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