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But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all that he holds dear. Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen, living with her lover Percy Shelley near Byron's villa on Lake Geneva. It would become the world's most famous work of horror fiction, and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity.<br /><br />Based on the third edition of 1831, this volume contains all the revisions Mary Shelley made to her story, as well as her 1831 introduction and Percy Bysshe Shelley's preface to the first edition. 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She was the daughter of the political philosopher <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/113910" rel="nofollow noopener">William Godwin</a> and the writer, philosopher, and feminist <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1853305" rel="nofollow noopener">Mary Wollstonecraft</a>.<br /><br />Mary Shelley was taken seriously as a writer in her own lifetime, though reviewers often missed the political edge to her novels. After her death, however, she was chiefly remembered only as the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley and as the author of <i>Frankenstein</i>. It was not until 1989, when Emily Sunstein published her prizewinning biography <i>Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality</i>, that a full-length scholarly biography analyzing all of Shelley's letters, journals, and works within their historical context was published.<br /><br />The well-meaning attempts of Mary Shelley's son and daughter-in-law to "Victorianise" her memory through the censoring of letters and biographical material contributed to a perception of Mary Shelley as a more conventional, less reformist figure than her works suggest. Her own timid omissions from Percy Shelley's works and her quiet avoidance of public controversy in the later years of her life added to this impression. <br /><br />The eclipse of Mary Shelley's reputation as a novelist and biographer meant that, until the last thirty years, most of her works remained out of print, obstructing a larger view of her achievement. She was seen as a one-novel author, if that. In recent decades, however, the republication of almost all her writings has stimulated a new recognition of its value. Her voracious reading habits and intensive study, revealed in her journals and letters and reflected in her works, is now better appreciated. Shelley's recognition of herself as an author has also been recognized; after Percy's death, she wrote about her authorial ambitions: "I think that I can maintain myself, and there is something inspiriting in the idea". Scholars now consider Mary Shelley to be a major Romantic figure, significant for her literary achievement and her political voice as a woman and a liberal.</span></div></div></div><div class=""></div></div><hr class="Divider Divider--largeMargin" role="presentation"/></div></div></div><div class="BookPage__relatedTopContent"><div class="lazyload-wrapper "><div style="height:500px" class="lazyload-placeholder"></div></div></div><div class="BookPage__reviewsSection"><div id="ReviewsSection" class="ReviewsSection"><div class="ReviewsSection__header"><h2 class="Text Text__title2">Ratings <span class="Text Text__italic">&</span> Reviews</h2></div><article class="WriteReviewCTA"><div class="Avatar Avatar--medium Avatar--placeholder" tabindex="0"><span data-testid="other" class="Avatar__image"><i class="Icon UserIcon"><svg viewBox="0 0 150 148" data-testid="placeholder" role="img" aria-label="Profile Image for undefined."><path d="M72.1090777,98.5834547 L72.33,99 L72.33,135.33 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Although it is one of my favourite novels, and in my opinion one of the finest pieces of fiction ever written, I find myself with a new appreciation of the text every time I come to it. <br><br>A large proportion of one of my PhD chapters is about this novel. I'm discussing the idea of the vegetable diet along with purity and becoming our natural selves. And I'm also considering notions of animal rights, of the idea that man is very much an animal too and he has lost this sense of original self. <i>Frankenstein</i> at its very core is a novel about duality, of our capability to be both good and evil and to be both human and animal. <br><br>There is so much to take from this book and there's so much that be taken apart, scrutinised and then put back together again. What's truly striking about the work is how much is reflects the anxieties of the age. It's full of insecurities about nature, god, science and our place in the world. Ultimately, it is a novel that creates a sense of unease because it highlights so much about the inauthentic nature of the lives many of us live. Running through the novel is a craving for freedom: a craving to to simply exist in a natural way. <br><br><br><b> <u>2nd Review</u> </b><br>- January 2020<br><br>Some books teach you something new each time you revisit them. <br><br>I picked up the tragically wonderful <i>Frankenstein</i> for a fifth time this week, and I was totally mesmerised by the descriptive language used to describe the natural world. <br><br>In all my previous readings, I focused on all the classic tropes of man and monster though I never considered the importance of the serene beauty that surrounds the story. The natural world dominates the background of the novel. It’s there, like a pervading monster that lingers in the darkest reaches of the mind. <br><br>What struck me most about it was the fact that both Victor and his creation long for a real life, a life where one is truly alive. And they both ponder what this means at length, reaching the same conclusion: to go completely nomad. They both wish to live a life free of burden and complications, no money, no commitments and no responsibility. They just want to be totally free in the wilderness with the ultimate goal of finding happiness by looking after their most immediate and natural desires. <br><br>And for me this says a great deal about society, not just the society in which this was written, but society in general: how many of us feel truly alive? <br><br><br><u> <b>Original Review</b> </u><br>- 2016<br><br>Let’s have a party Victor. Let’s get together and celebrate all things Gothic, and dark, and wonderful. Let’s have it in an attic in an old house in the middle of a thunderstorm, and then afterwards let’s go to the graveyard with our shovels and our body bags. Sounds good doesn’t it Victor? We could then create our own doppelgängers from the corpses of criminals and geniuses. Then we can abandon our marvellous creation to fend for itself with his childlike innocence, and then wonder why it goes so horribly wrong and blows up in our faces. <br><br>Ahh..Victor you silly, brilliant, man. On second thought we probably shouldn’t have that party. <br><br><b>Because if we did it would end in blood</b><br><br><img src="https://images.gr-assets.com/photos/1433339456p8/1190923.jpg" width="400" height="266" alt="description" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"> <br><br>Yes, lots of blood: the blood of everyone you love, the blood of all your family Victor. You blame the monster, but you are his creator. You should have taught him the ways of the world and guided his first steps. The things you two could have accomplished together. So I ask you this Victor, who is the real monster? Is it the creature that has gone on a murderous rampage or it you? You are the man who played at god and was horrified at the consequence. You judged your creation by his physical appearance, which was more a reflection of your vain soul. Ahh..Victor you silly, brilliant, man. Surely you don’t wonder why the monster revenged himself upon you?<br><br><i>“I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel...”</i><br><br>Indeed, the real monster of this novel is Victor Frankenstein, and not his monstrous creation. The creature is a monster on the outside but Victor is on the inside, which is a form much worse. By abandoning the creature he has taught him to become what his appearance is. The first human experience he receives is rejection based upon his physicality. His own creator recoils in disgust from him. He cannot be blamed for his actions if all he has been taught is negative emotion, he will only respond in one way. He is innocent and childlike but also a savage brute. These are two things that should never be put together. Woe to Victor Frankenstein’s family. <br><br><i>“There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied in the one, I will indulge the other.”</i><br><br><img src="https://images.gr-assets.com/photos/1433339474p8/1190924.jpg" width="400" height="225" alt="description" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><br><br>Mary Shelley raises questions of the danger of knowledge, and shows a probable consequence of trying to play god; the novel portrays nineteen century fears for the rising field of science and knowledge and questions how far it could go. Indeed, in this case Victor takes on the role of a God by creating new life. She also shows us what can happen to a man if he so driven by this thirst for knowledge and how it will ultimately lead to a fall. Victor reminds me somewhat of Doctor Faustus (<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18525.Doctor_Faustus" rel="nofollow noopener">The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus</a>) in this regard. Faustus is a man who sold his soul to Lucifer for unlimited knowledge in the form of arcane magic. Victor, like Faustus, has stopped at nothing to gain his goal, but in the end is ultimately dissatisfied with the result. <br><br>Suffice to say, I simply adore this book as you may have gathered from my ramblings. I think this, alongside Dracula, are amongst the strongest representations of Gothic literature. Furthermore, I have a real soft spot for epistolary means of storytelling. I’m not sure why, perhaps it’s the stronger sense of intimacy you fell with the characters as you see their words on the page rather than an impartial narrators. You see inside their heads more and understand their motifs and feelings. <br><br>My favourite quote:<br><br><i>"This was then the reward of my benevolence! I had saved a human being from destruction, and as a recompense I now writhed under the miserable pain of a wound which shattered the flesh and bone. The feelings of kindness and gentleness which I had entertained but a few moments before gave place to hellish rage and gnashing of teeth. Inflamed by pain, I vowed eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind.</i> <br><br>Listen to the passion, to the intellect and witness such a wasted opportunity. 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2012</a></span></section><section class="ReviewText"><section class="ReviewText__content" dir="auto"><div class="TruncatedContent" tabindex="-1"><div class="TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large" tabindex="-1" data-testid="contentContainer"><span class="Formatted">My <b>apologies</b>, but this <b>review</b> is going to be a bit <b>frantic</b> due to my <b>brain</b> being so <b>oxygen-starved</b> by the novel’s <b>breath-stealing</b> gorgeousness that I'm feeling a bit light-headed. So please forgive the random thoughts.<br /><br /><b><u>First</u>:</b> Mary Shelley…I love you!!<br /><br /><b><u>Second</u>:</b> Dear Hollywood - you lying <b>dung pile</b> of literature-savaging, no talent hacks…you got this all wrong. Please learn to read and get yourself a copy of the source material before you <b>FUBAR</b> it again. <br /><br /><b><u>Third</u>:</b> My heart shattered for the “monster” and I haven’t felt this strong a desire to “hug it out, bitch” since reading <a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/676737.Grendel" title="Grendel by John Gardner" rel="noopener">Grendel</a> and <a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/7948230.Crooked_Letter__Crooked_Letter" title="Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin" rel="noopener">Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter</a>. The “wretch” is so well drawn and powerfully portrayed that he form the emotional ligament for the entire story. He is among the finest creations the written form has to offer. <br /><br /><b><u>Fourth</u>: </b> As surprised as I am to be saying this, this novel has ousted <a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/17245.Dracula" title="Dracula by Bram Stoker" rel="noopener">Dracula</a> as my all time favorite of the classic horror stories…sorry Bram, but the good/evil, sad, desperate loneliness of the orphaned monster trying to find a purpose and to define himself in the world trumps The Count. <br /><br /><b><u>Five</u>:</b> <blockquote> <i>No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs. Pursuing these reflections, I thought that if I could bestow animation upon lifeless matter, I might in process of time (although I now found it impossible) renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption.</i> </blockquote> As gorgeous as the prose is, I thought it a crime not to include at least one quote. <br /><br /><b><u>Six</u>:</b> The “non-explanation” for the process that Victor uses to create the monster is thing of genius. No other approach could have possibly conveyed the majesty and significance of the achievement, because we would have known it was bullshit. Shelley did it perfectly…which leads me nicely into…<br /><br /><b><u>Seven</u>:</b> The corny, slapdash lightning scene is entirely a work of Hollywood? There’s …NO…lightning…scene? Are you kidding me? Even Kenneth Branagh’s supposedly “true” adaptation had electric eels providing power to the “it’s alive” process. All of it bunk. I’ll say it again, Hollywood is a bunch of useless tools. . LIARS!!!<br /><br /><b><u>Eight</u>: </b> Speaking of tools, Victor Frankenstein is a giant one. As far as I am concerned, he is clearly the villain of the piece. However, what I found so squee-inducingly magical about Shelly’s writing was my degree of vacillation when it came to Victor’s character. I liked and even admired Victor in the beginning of the story and found his personal journey compelling. He was a genius driven by his desire to unlock the secrets of the universe and had that manic, “mad scientist” focus necessary to the accomplishment of such a lofty goal. However, once the “birth” of the monster came, I found myself waffling back and forth throughout the rest of the story. Ironically, his moment of success and his reaction to life he had conjured was when he began to lose his humanity in my eyes. <br /><br />His treatment of the monster was abhorrent. Despite this, Shelley was able to get me to see over my disgust and appreciate Frankenstein’s position and understand why he was so unwilling to continence the existence of “the wretch.” Not enough for me to forgive his lack of compassion, but enough for me to see him as a tragic figure. Huge propers for Shelley as that is excellent writing. <br /><br /><b><u>Nine</u>:</b> I would place the monster among the finest literary creations of all time. This singular manifestation of humanity’s scientific brilliance and callous indifference to the consequences thereof is masterfully done. Frankenstein’s “wretch” became the prototype of the literary outcast and every “misunderstood” creature since has been offspring from his loins. His character profile is phenomenal, and just as Victor’s actions garner sporadic moments of understanding for his cruel treatment of the monster, so the monster’s wanton acts of vile cruelty severely test our compassion for him. Tested, bent and stretched, but, for me at least, never broken. I understood his pain…I understood his anger…I understood. <br /><br /><b><u>Ten</u>:</b> No spoilers here, but the final resolution of the relationship between Victor and the child of his genius was…stellar. Everything was reconciled and nothing was resolved. The final reckoning occurs and it is both momentous and useless. <br /><br /><b><u>Eleven</u>:</b> I expected the prose to be good but, having never read Shelley before, I was still surprised by how exceptional and ear-pleasing it was. Her writing really resonated with me and I loved her ability to weave emotion, plot momentum and a high literary quotient seamlessly together. Good, good stuff. <br /><br /><b><u>Twelve</u>:</b> The novel is structured as an <b>epistolary nesting doll</b> using the frame story of <b>Captain Walton</b> corresponding with his sister about his expedition to the North Pole. While at the top of the world, Walton finds Victor Frankenstein stranded. This sets up the dovetail into Walton relaying Victor’s story which takes up the bulk of the novel and includes within it the incredibly poignant story of the “monster” in the creature’s own words. It is superbly executed and I thought the framing device was very effective. <br /><br /><b><u>Thirteen</u>:</b> Despite my trashing of the movie versions earlier, there was one scene that I thought was handled far better on screen than in this story. Kenneth Branagh’s portrayal of <input type="checkbox" class="spoiler__control" aria-label="The following text has been marked spoiler. 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that I'm a moron with zero literary credibility. So, stop reading right now if the sound of an idiot whistling out of their asshole bothers you. Sure, you can comment below and tell me how stupid I am, but it probably won't make me a better person. Or will it...?<br><br><img src="https://images.gr-assets.com/hostedimages/1477093601ra/20916656.gif" width="400" height="200" alt="description" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"> <br><br>I've always wondered what the <i>real</i> Frankenstein story was like...and now I know.<br>Sadly, sometimes the fantasy is better than the reality.<br>And the <i>reality</i> is, this book is a big steaming pile of poo.<br><br>It's an old-timey horror story, right?<br>Not so much.<br>I mean, I wasn't expecting it to actually be scary, but I thought it might be slightly creepy. Unfortunately, the only <i>horror</i> in the story centered around me having to keep turning the pages.<br>Unless...? <br><i>Beware mortal! You will DIE of boredom!</i><br>Truly frightening.<br><br><img src="https://images.gr-assets.com/hostedimages/1477093601ra/20916657.gif" width="300" height="300" alt="description" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><br><br>It starts like this:<br>An upper-crust guy sails off to the Arctic to <i>make discoveries</i>, and to pass the time he writes to his sister. Supposedly, he's been sailing around on whaling ships for several years. And he's been proven an invaluable resource by other captains. <br>So I'm assuming he's a pretty crusty ol' sailor at this point.<br><i>Pay attention, because this is where Shelly proves that she knows <b>nothing</b> about men...</i><br>So this guy goes on and on in these letters to his sister about how he wishes on every star that he could find a best friend at sea. After a few (<i>too many</i>) letters, they pull a half-frozen Frankensicle out of the water. <br>Aaaaand here's what our salty sea dog has to say about the waterlogged mad scientist...<br><i>"Blah, blah, blah...his full-toned voice swells in my ears; his lustrous eyes dwell on me with all their melancholy sweetness...blah, blah, blah..."</i> <br>Lustrous eyes?! No (<i>straight</i>) sailor ever, in the history of the world, EVER referred to another dude's eyes as <i>lustrous</i>. <br>Ever. <br>And I know what you're thinking.<br><i>Well, Anne, maybe this character was gay. Didn't think about that, did you?!</i> <br>Actually, yes. Yes, I did. <br>The only problem with that theory is that <i>NONE</i> of the male characters in this book sounded remotely <i>male</i>.<br>Ladies, do you remember that time in your life (<i>probably around middle or high school</i>), when you thought that guys <i>actually</i> had the same sort of thought waves running through their heads that we do? You know, before you realized that they really <i>don't </i> care about...well, all of the things that we do? You thought that while they were laughing at the booger their idiot friend just flicked across the room, something <i>deeper</i> was stirring in their mind. It just had to be!<br>I'm not sure when it happens, but at some point, every woman finally realizes the (<i>fairly obvious</i>) truth.<br>Men aren't women.<br>That booger was the funniest thing ever, and <i>nothing</i> was stirring around in them other than maybe some gas.<br>And that's ok.<br>Fart-lighting and long distance loogie hawking contests aside, they can be pretty darn cool. <br>But this author was too young to realize that.<br>My personal opinion is that Mary was probably fairly sheltered and was used to running around with a bunch of artsy-fartsy dudes. Much like today, I would imagine these junior emos were probably blowing poetic smoke up her young ass in the high hopes of getting into her pants.<br>Although it's possible I'm totally misreading the situation.<br><br><img src="https://images.gr-assets.com/hostedimages/1477093897ra/20916663.gif" width="400" height="200" alt="description" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><br><br>Anyway, Frank tells his story, and Sea Dog writes it all down for his sister.<br>In excruciating detail.<br>Rivers, flowers, rocks, mountain tops...agonizingly cataloged. And the weather? God forbid a breeze blows through the story without <i>at least</i> a paragraph devoted to the way it felt on his skin or affected his mood!<br>And speaking of Frankenstein's <i>mood</i>.<br>I don't think I've ever had the pleasure of reading about a character this spineless before. He didn't <i>talk</i> so much as he <i>whined</i>.<br>And the swooning!<br>He was like one of those freaking fainting goats!<br>I can't even count how many times he blacked out and fell over. Of course, then he would get feverish and need "a period of convalescence" to recover.<br>Again, every episode was recounted with incredible attention to detail.<br>I'm thrilled that I never had to miss a moment of his sweaty brow getting daubed with water! <br><br><b>Randomly Inserted Fun Fact:</b> <br>The <i>monster</i> quoted Milton in Paradise Lost.<br><i>Shockingly, I only know this because it was in the appendix, and not because I have any real-life experience with reading that one.</i><br><br><img src="https://images.gr-assets.com/hostedimages/1463580324ra/19134433.gif" width="400" height="250" alt="description" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><br> <br>Was this the most painfully unnecessary book I've read this year?<br>Yes.<br>Is there a deeper moral to this story?<br>Yes.<br>Some would say, that the monster is a product of a society that refuses to accept someone who is different. Or maybe that Victor Frankenstein was the real monster for not realizing that he had a duty to <i>parent</i> and care for his creation? Perhaps it is meant to point out our obsession with perfection, and our willingness to disregard people who don't meet the standards of beauty as non-human?<br>Some might say any of those things.<br><b> <i>I,</i> </b> however, learned a far different lesson from Frankenstein.<br>And it's this...<br>Trust no one.<br>Not even someone who (<i>just an example</i>) has been your <b>Best Friend</b> for <b>decades</b>!<br><i>Let's read a classic, Anne. It'll be fun, Anne. We can call each other with updates, Anne. It'll be just like a book club, Anne. Tee-hee!</i><br>Liar, liar! 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tabindex="-1"><div class="TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large" tabindex="-1" data-testid="contentContainer"><span class="Formatted"><b> Some monsters are not born, they are created by the cruelty around them. </b> <br><br>Victor Frankenstein is a scientist and alchemist obsessed with creating life. Neglecting his betrothed, friends and even himself, he devotes all energy and efforts to the construction of his Creation, an unspeakable thing formed of human parts scavenged from cemeteries and other undesirable places, which he intends to bring back to life. His dream turning into a nightmare when he actually succeeds.<br><br>The terrible and unfortunate story of Dr. Frankenstein and his Creation. Two immortal characters that transcended literature. Dr. Frankenstein was more than a scientist; and his Creation more than a monster. Both characters immersed in an unwinnable fight against adversity and misery, fighting each other, and against themselves. Each one with the disadvantages proper of their nature. Each one a person, and a monster. Both tragically linked because of one defining moment of pain; <input type="checkbox" class="spoiler__control" aria-label="The following text has been marked spoiler. Toggle checkbox to reveal or hide." onchange="this.labels[0].setAttribute('aria-hidden', !this.checked);" id="ed4b5b4e-152b-4dea-8bcd-442f00669852" /><label aria-hidden="true" class="spoiler" for="ed4b5b4e-152b-4dea-8bcd-442f00669852"> the pain of losing love, and the pain of never knowing it. </label> A story that makes you think, and suffer, for both of them. <br><br>A classical masterpiece that spawned countless of adaptations and retellings; in books, films, plays, and whatnot. Fast paced, short and easy to read. A must read in life. Highly Recommendable.<br><br>It’s public domain, you can find it <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/84" rel="nofollow noopener">HERE.</a><br><br>*** Frankenstein (1994) is an acceptable adaptation at best, even with a stellar cast including stars like Branagh, De Niro and Bonham Carter. All the main ingredients of a good movie were present, and the plot faithful enough to the book. Still, overall it felt just average, barely watchable and excessively over the top for no good reason. Interesting to complement the reading, but not really recommendable.<br><br>Still remaining, the movie (1931)<br><br><img src="https://images.gr-assets.com/hostedimages/1678590637ra/34030575.gif" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><br><br>-----------------------------------------------<br><u> <b>PERSONAL NOTE</b> </u>: <br>[1818] [260p] [Classics] [Highly Recommendable] <br>-----------------------------------------------<br><br><b> Algunos monstruos no nacen, son creados por la crueldad a su alrededor. </b> <br><br>Victor Frankenstein es un científico y alquimista obsesionado con crear vida. Descuidando a su prometida, amigos e incluso a sí mismo, dedica toda su energía y esfuerzos a la construcción de su Creación, una innombrable cosa formada de partes humanas recuperadas de cementerios y otros indeseables lugares, a la cual intenta hacer volver a la vida. Su sueño convirtiéndose en pesadilla cuando finalmente lo logra.<br><br>La terrible e infortunada historia del Dr. Frankenstein y su Creación. Dos personajes inmortales que transcendieron la literatura. El Dr. Frankenstein era más que un científico; y su Creación más que un monstruo. Ambos personajes sumidos en una pelea imposible contra la adversidad y la desdicha, luchando uno contra otro, y contra sí mismos. Cada uno con las desventajas propias de su naturaleza. Cada uno una persona, y un monstruo. Ambos trágicamente vinculados por un momento definido en el dolor; <input type="checkbox" class="spoiler__control" aria-label="The following text has been marked spoiler. 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Sin embargo, en conjunto se sintió sólo promedio, apenas veíble y excesivamente exagerada sin buena justificación. 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2019</a></span></section><section class="ReviewText"><section class="ReviewText__content" dir="auto"><div class="TruncatedContent" tabindex="-1"><div class="TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large" tabindex="-1" data-testid="contentContainer"><span class="Formatted"><blockquote><b><i>“I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”</i></b><br />-From the 1994 movie</blockquote><br />The worst thing about this novel is how distorted it has become by constant movie adaptations and misinformed ideas about the nature of Frankenstein and his "monster". For years, like many others, I thought Frankenstein was the name of that slightly green dude with the bolts in his neck. Nuh-uh.<br /><br />Did <i>Frankenstein</i> scare me? Did it have me staying awake and sleeping with the light on, jumping at every slight creak in the house? Was I terrified of the monster and technology and the dangers of playing God? <b>No.</b> Because the beauty of this story is that it isn't the one so many people think it is. Which is almost my favourite thing about it. This book is not a Halloween kind of story with Halloween kind of monsters. <b>This story is heartbreakingly sad.</b><br /><blockquote> <b> <i>“...once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding.”</i> </b> </blockquote><br />The book offers many interesting avenues of philosophical exploration if one wishes to ponder such things. For example, allusions to religion and Genesis, possible criticisms of using science to "play God", and the relationship between creator and creation. All of these things interest me, yes, but it is the painfully human part of this book that has always so deeply affected me. <br /><br />Because the sad thing, the really sad thing, is that pretty much everyone has heard of Frankenstein's monster... but so many don't know how <i>human</i> the character is. Created as a scientific experiment by an overly ambitious man, he comes into a frightening and hostile world that immediately rejects him on sight. Even the man who made him cannot look upon his creation without feeling horror. It's that same thing that gets me in books every time: <b>things could have been so different</b>. If people had just been a little less judgmental, a little less scared, and a little more understanding. <br /><br />This being, created from different parts of corpses, seeks love and finds hatred, so he instead decides to embrace it. Fuelled by his own rage at the unfairness of the world, he gradually turns towards evil. <br /><br />He belongs in my own little mental category with the likes of Heathcliff and Erik (aka The Phantom of the Opera). Scared, angry villains who were made so by their own unfortunate circumstances. <b>The kind of characters you simultaneously hate and love, but most of all hope they find some kind of peace.</b><br /><br />So call it science-fiction, if you want. Call it horror, if you must. 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That's right. Zero, zip. nada.<br /><br />It's been almost 30 years since I've detested a book this much. I didn't think anything could be worse then Kafka's <i>The Metamorphosis</i>. Seems I'm never too old to be wrong. This time, I don't have the excuse that I was forced to read this for high school lit. class. Oh no, this time I read this of my own volition and for fun. Yeah, fun. Kinda like sticking bamboo shoots between my fingernails type of fun. Watching paint dry fun. Going to an Air Supply concert fun.<br /><br />OK, to be fair, I need to tell you what I liked about this....<br /><br />Well, Mary Shelley was a teen when she wrote this. Color me impressed. At 19 I was just looking for my next college boyfriend, not penning the great English classic. Kudos to Mary for that.<br /><br />Otherwise, I can't think of anything to admire in this book, apart from the fact that it's the only book in my reading history where I actually noted EVERY SINGLE PAGE NUMBER and mentally counted down the time I'd be finished.<br /><br />Why did I persist, you may ask? Well, at the point where the pain became mind numbing, I decided to channel my inner John McCain and just survive the torture. Figured it would make me a better, stronger reader. Might even make me enjoy a re-read of <a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/1162543.Breaking_Dawn__Twilight___4_" title="Breaking Dawn (Twilight, #4) by Stephenie Meyer" rel="noopener">Breaking Dawn</a>....(well, no it wouldn't, but you get the idea).<br /><br /><i>Frankenstein</i> is a classic alright. A classic melodrama. Complete with a wimpy, vaporish, trembling prima donna main character and a pseudo monster whose only sin is being uglier then Bernie Madoff in cell block D. After the upteenth tremble/jerk/gasp/faint/start from our mad scientist Victor Frankenstein, I could only sign in relief that he wasn't a Rabbi about to perform a bris circumcism - oy vey!<br /><br />Were we supposed to be outraged at the monster's killing spree? By the books end, I was merely miffed that the creature murdered the wrong Frankenstein sibling. He would have saved himself a good deal of traveling (and saved me a good deal of suffering) had he snuffed out his <i>maker</i> before he could high-tail it out of the birthing room.<br /><br />I'm sure that the fans of this book will say that I didn't understand the deeper, symbolic nuances of this book, and I'm sure that they are right. At this point in my life, all I know is what I like and don't like in a book, and as far as I'm concerned, this book is unadulterated, mind-numbing crap. But that's just me. Your mileage will vary (as I sincerely hope it does). As for my own mileage, it can best be compared to driving a Ford Pinto in the Indy 500...<br /><br /><br /><b>EDIT</b><br />Due to the efforts of a few Kool-ade drinking trolls who have gotten their big girl/big boy panties in a wad over an almost 200 year old book and can't comment nicely on my review, I am suspending all future comments.<br /><br />Don't like it? 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class="TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large" tabindex="-1" data-testid="contentContainer"><span class="Formatted">Don’t get why everyone spends so much time talking about “the theme of science versus nature” and how this is “the world’s first science fiction novel” when clearly this is the world’s pre-eminent text on the subject of the dire consequences of procrastination.<br /><br />But whatever.<br /><br />This book rules.<br /><br />First off, it’s very funny to imagine old-timey 1800s people being scared by this. It’s in the same vein as thinking of that urban legend about the people who watched the first movie screaming when the train races toward them. “AAAAAH! I AM IN A THEATER, BUT I’M ABOUT TO GET HIT BY A TRAIN!!! HERE IT COMES! TELL MY WIFE I LOVE HER!”<br /><br />I highly recommend reading it through that lens. Just thinking about that original audience who thought this was a horror. “Oh, my stars! A creature of most unholy origin! I daren’t think of it!” Idiots.<br /><br />Again, I digress.<br /><br />This is so beautifully written. It really forces you to slow down and take the story in, just so you don’t miss a gorgeous line - which in turn makes you appreciate how many great and beautifully executed themes there are at play.<br /><br />Count me impressed.<br /><br />But again, I’m mostly just thinkin’ bout how #relatable Frankenstein is.<br /><br />And also the fact that I can Finally I can be one of those assholes who’s like “Frankenstein is the SCIENTIST, not the monster!!!!”<br /><br />I’m living the dream.<br /><br />Bottom line: This is nonstop fun and everyone should have (read: read) it.<br /><br />-------------<br /><i>currently-reading updates</i><br /><br />can already relate to victor frankenstein as i, too, create massive problems and then avoid dealing with them until the repercussions threaten to destroy my life and even then am kinda like "ok but do i have to"</span></div><div class=""></div></div></section></section><section class="ReviewCard__tags"><ul class="CollapsableList"><span tabindex="-1"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/32879029?shelf=4-stars" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">4-stars</span></a><span tabindex="-1"> </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/32879029?shelf=beautifully-written" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">beautifully-written</span></a><span tabindex="-1"> </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/32879029?shelf=classics" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">classics</span></a></span><span tabindex="-1"></span> <div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium" aria-label="Show all items in the list"><span class="Button__labelItem">...more</span></button></div></ul></section><footer class="SocialFooter"><div data-testid="stats" class="SocialFooter__statsContainer"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">1,425 likes</span></button></div><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">59 comments</span></button></div></div><div data-testid="actions"><div class="SocialFooter__action"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium" aria-label="Review unliked. 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tabindex="-1" data-testid="contentContainer"><span class="Formatted">Mary Wollstonecraft, a teenager, was spending a vacation in Switzerland with her fiancé, <a href="https://goodreads.com/author/show/45882.Percy_Bysshe_Shelley" title="Percy Bysshe Shelley" rel="noopener">Percy Shelley</a>, their mutual friend, <a href="https://goodreads.com/author/show/44407.Lord_Byron" title="Lord Byron" rel="noopener">Lord Byron</a>, and a few other people. Was the weather gloomy that summer of 1816? Were the companions bored to death? One evening, they challenged each other into writing the scariest ghost story they could come up with. No one remembers what the fellows wrote on that occasion. Except for the young woman’s literary creature and the misfortunes of Victor Frankenstein.<br><br>Since then, what was meant as an entertaining story, rose to the dimension of a myth. So much so that the original novel itself has been covered up by layer upon layer of external imagery, which has very little to do with it — in particular, the heavily made-up face of Boris Karloff in the 1931 unfaithful film adaptation of this book. Nowadays, there are all sorts of adaptations (e.g. Kenneth Branagh’s movie, with De Niro, more on that below), parodies (Mel Brook’s <i>Young Frankenstein</i>), and probably even spooky porn versions.<br><br>However, Mary Shelley’s novel is not so much about ghosts or monsters, as it is a meditation on the Biblical theme of Creation and Fall. Naturally, the idea of creating a living being — using some human technique instead of natural reproduction —, comes from the 16th-century Jewish narrative of the <a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/99794.The_Golem" title="The Golem by Gustav Meyrink" rel="noopener">Golem</a> of Prague. The subtle hints and overt references to Milton’s <a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/15997.Paradise_Lost" title="Paradise Lost by John Milton" rel="noopener">Paradise Lost</a> are also quite noticeable — the “daemon”, rejected from the start as an ugly duckling, learns to read with a copy of this book (?). At any rate, <i>Frankenstein</i> is a brilliant and existential reverie on the theme of God and Satan (Frankenstein and the “daemon”) and Adam and Eve (Frankenstein and Elizabeth / the monster and the potential lady-monster).<br><br>Another striking aspect of <i>Frankenstein</i>’s narrative is the Russian-dolls-like structure of the tales: first Captain Walton’s letters, which frame the whole novel, then Victor Frankenstein’s account and, finally, a tale within the tale, the <i>daemon</i>’s story. This particular form is in keeping with earlier gothic novels and harks back to the <a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/93101.The_Arabian_Nights" title="The Arabian Nights by Anonymous" rel="noopener">One Thousand and One Nights</a>, to which Mary Shelley might have had access, through Antoine Galland’s translation into French. Incidentally, Safie’s story, around the middle of the novel (another embedded tale within a tale), has some oriental undertones.<br><br>Mary Shelley’s book is considered one of the earliest examples of the Science Fiction genre. However, there is not much science or technology to speak of in <i>Frankenstein</i>, apart from a few mentions of <a href="https://goodreads.com/author/show/121121.Paracelsus" title="Paracelsus" rel="noopener">Paracelsus</a> and a couple of other alchemists and astrologers. The minor references to electricity, magnetism and galvanism are in the spirit of the times. Still, <a href="https://goodreads.com/author/show/112273.Michael_Faraday" title="Michael Faraday" rel="noopener">Michael Faraday</a>, who would soon bring significant breakthroughs in these fields, was about the same age as the precocious author of <i>Frankenstein</i>. Still, the presence of electromagnetism is not only a reference to the myth of Prometheus and the stolen fire. If anything, it expresses a fascination with landscapes: now sunny, beautiful and pleasant; now stormy, sublime and menacing, with ghastly thunderbolts ripping the clouds apart. Mary Shelley had a couple of predecessors — <a href="https://goodreads.com/author/show/11525.Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge" title="Samuel Taylor Coleridge" rel="noopener">Coleridge</a> is quoted a few times in her novel —, but that sort of imagery was, by and large, a novelty at the time. It might be interesting to note that while Mary Shelley was writing <i>Frankenstein</i>, Caspar David Friedrich was painting his famous <i>Wanderer above the Sea of Fog</i> (see below). This obsession with ominous landscapes would soon become a trope within the romantic and gothic literary tradition (cf. the often ridiculed <a href="https://goodreads.com/author/show/44512.Edward_Bulwer_Lytton" title="Edward Bulwer-Lytton" rel="noopener">Bulwer-Lytton</a>’s “dark and stormy night”).<br><br><i>Frankenstein</i> is also considered an early example of the modern Horror genre. However, the general impression is not exactly a feeling of terror. Rather a romantic and quite often bombastic expression of strong emotions: despair, anguish, despondency, melancholy, misery, wretchedness, affliction, etc., are words that come repeatedly under Mary Shelley’s pen. This accumulation of epithets might feel quaint and a little schmaltzy to a modern reader.<br><br>Even so, <i>Frankenstein</i> has probably been a significant inspiration to crime mystery novels, such as Stevenson’s <a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/51497.The_Strange_Case_of_Dr__Jekyll_and_Mr__Hyde_and_Other_Tales_of_Terror" title="The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror by Robert Louis Stevenson" rel="noopener">Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde</a> and later avatars of serial killers on a murderous rampage. It has probably also exerted a strong influence on scary adventure stories, such as Poe’s <a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/70925.The_Narrative_of_Arthur_Gordon_Pym_of_Nantucket_and_Related_Tales" title="The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales by Edgar Allan Poe" rel="noopener">Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym</a>, Wells’ <a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/341272.The_Island_of_Doctor_Moreau" title="The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells" rel="noopener">Island of Doctor Moreau</a>, or Lovecraft’s <a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/32767.At_the_Mountains_of_Madness" title="At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft" rel="noopener">At the Mountains of Madness</a>. It might, nowadays, become once more a significant source of inspiration, as contemporary technology explores new forms of sentient and intelligent beings, out of GMO, silicon or some weird combination of the two.<br><br><img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1499445862i/23234250._SY540_.jpg" alt="Caspar David Friedrich - Wanderer above the sea of fog" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><br><br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley%27s_Frankenstein_(film)" rel="nofollow noopener">Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein</a> (1994), directed by Kenneth Branagh, followed Francis Ford Coppola’s box-office hit <i>Bram Stocker’s Dracula</i> (1992). The cast is imposing: De Niro, Branagh, Hulce, Bonham Carter, Holm, Cleese. The screenplay (written by Frank Darabont, who would later develop <i>The Walking Dead</i> TV series) is, for the most part, faithful to Mary Shelley’s novel. However, while Coppola’s <i>Dracula</i> was darkly luxurious and decadent, the style of Branagh’s <i>Frankenstein</i> is loud and vehement, at times stomach-churning or downright silly.<br><br>The biopic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley_(film)" rel="nofollow noopener">Mary Shelley</a> (2017) by Haifaa al-Mansour, with Elle Fanning, is primarily a romance, recounting the complicated situation in which the young woman met her husband and how she got to write her masterpiece. The portrayals of Percy Shelley and Lord Byron are rather unflattering.</span></div><div class=""></div></div></section></section><section class="ReviewCard__tags"><ul class="CollapsableList"><span tabindex="-1"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/27098959?shelf=favorites" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">favorites</span></a></span><span tabindex="-1"></span></ul></section><footer class="SocialFooter"><div data-testid="stats" class="SocialFooter__statsContainer"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">564 likes</span></button></div><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">57 comments</span></button></div></div><div data-testid="actions"><div class="SocialFooter__action"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium" aria-label="Review unliked. 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tabindex="-1"><div class="TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large" tabindex="-1" data-testid="contentContainer"><span class="Formatted">‘<i>’Man,’ I cried, ‘how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!’</i>’<br /><br />For over 200 years <i>Frankenstein</i> by Mary Shelley has captured our minds and toyed with our fears, entering the canon of classic while remaining as relevant and thought provoking a metaphor as science progresses onward. It is certainly worthy of the lasting fame, being an exquisite blend of gothic horror and Romantic morality that delves into philosophical and allegorical inquiries in an endlessly engaging narrative that had me reading late into the night with a fervor to reach the end. It is a story we likely all know, and not much new to say someone hasn’t already said and better, but even still I was fascinated by every detail, with its fabulist monster story, the nested framing of two men on a quest in the arctic, the epistolary narrative, the plots of murderous vengeance and, of course, the fall from innocence with the damnation of ambition. This is also a story about how being a deadbeat dad passes along trauma that reacts negatively and is rather terrifying with its massive monster that moves fast and kills hard. This cautionary creation tale of catastrophe forces us to confront the grotesqueries of humanity grappling with life and death, and question what is truly monstrous.<br /><br />‘<i>Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.</i>’<br /><br />This is a book where the story about its creation is just as compelling as the novel itself. Written when Mary Shelley was 19, this would arrive on the scene under high expectations to see what the young writer of notable literary heritage (her father was <a href="https://goodreads.com/author/show/113910.William_Godwin" title="William Godwin" rel="noopener">William Godwin</a> and her late mother the feminist writer and activist <a href="https://goodreads.com/author/show/1853305.Mary_Wollstonecraft" title="Mary Wollstonecraft" rel="noopener">Mary Wollstonecraft</a>) would produce. ‘<i>My husband,</i>’ she writes in an introduction, referring to <a href="https://goodreads.com/author/show/45882.Percy_Bysshe_Shelley" title="Percy Bysshe Shelley" rel="noopener">Percy Bysshe Shelley</a>, ‘<i>was from the first very anxious that I should prove myself worthy of my parentage and enroll myself on the page of fame.</i>’ The novel sprang into creation supposedly during a dream (not unlike her doctor Frankenstein’s prophetic dream of creation) after <a href="https://goodreads.com/author/show/44407.Lord_Byron" title="Lord Byron" rel="noopener">Lord Byron</a> proposed to his friends they each should write a ghost story while they were all <a href="https://www.history.com/news/frankenstein-true-story-mary-shelley" rel="nofollow noopener">stuck indoors on a retreat together</a> at Lake Geneva. This same retreat would also birth the novel <a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/472966.The_Vampyre" title="The Vampyre by John William Polidori" rel="noopener">The Vampyre</a> by <a href="https://goodreads.com/author/show/26932.John_William_Polidori" title="John William Polidori" rel="noopener">John William Polidori</a>, who based his villain on Byron himself because <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4888409762?type=review#rating_498720393" rel="nofollow noopener">Lord Byron was kind of insufferable</a>. And a deadbeat dad, not unlike Victor Frankenstein. The novel itself can be read as a commentary on the experience of writing it, something she teases in her introduction about the creative experience of an artist and to which she writes that ‘<i>I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper.</i>’ Unlike her doctor, there is a sense of care over her creation. Now, onward!<br /><br />‘<i>To examine the causes of life we must first have recourse to death.</i>’<br /><br />This book is sort of the antidote to those cliche inspirational office posters about ambition everyone had in the 90s, because here we find ambition to drip into arrogance and basically create calamity. Framed from the perspective of Cpt. Walton as he attempts to reach the North Pole—and fails—we hear the story of another man who’s blinded by his own ambition until it is too late. Doctor Victor Frankenstein’s story is a chilling fall-from-grace story, beginning with a sweet adolescence that slowly turns to the grotesque along a path of bloodied corpses of innocent people to chronicle his own loss of innocence. The spark to this is the early death of his mother, coupled with his reading of scientific books at university (self-education through books is mirrored as well through his monster), amalgamating into an idea with the best intentions to ‘<i>renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption.</i>’ We all know the maxim that good intentions are the paving stones to Hell, however. <br /><br />‘<i>Whence, I often asked myself, did the principle of life proceed.</i>’<br /><br />While we tend to just remember the Doctor’s last name, the full title of the book is <i>Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus,</i> and here we begin to understand why fire and light is such a frequent symbol. As Prometheus gave fire to humans and was punished for it, we see Frankenstein attempt to ‘<i>pour a torrent of light into our dark world</i>’ by conquering death and creating life (with electric shock instead of fire but close enough), something that will be his own undoing. It is only natural, drawing on ideas of the Romantics that nature is the pinnacle of good and perfection and since he ‘<i>collected bones from charnel houses; and disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secrets of the human frame,</i>’ to create and give life to his creation, therefore the manufactured (see also: “unnatural”) creation must also be profane and Frankenstein shall be punished. You know, the whole ‘don’t play god’ argument. The creature wrecks havoc on Frankenstein’s life as ‘<i>the cold stars shone in mockery,</i>’ and the barren Arctic is a sort of Hell (devoid of fire and warmth) where Victor inevitably meets his demise.<br /><br />Yet Victor never views his ambitions as unnatural (him and the Captain being figuratively blinded by their ambitions functioning as another fire/light metaphor), and even at the end he says to Walton ‘<i>I have myself been blasted in these hopes, yet another may succeed.</i>’ He sees no ethical dilemma in his manufacturing of life, his fears stem from the supposed hideousness of his creation—‘<i>ugly…a thing such as Dante could not have conceived</i>’—and then later the string of murders. ‘<i>A new species would bless me as its creator and source,</i>’ Victor writes, propping himself up as a paternal godlike figure, ‘<i>no father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs,</i>’ however he fails as a father to his creation by abandoning it. He does not even give the creation a name, even when hunting it after the multiple murders. This is key, as in fairy tales naming something is a way to take away it’s power (think Rumpelstiltskin being defeated by guessing his name). ‘<i>I think of the act of naming as diagnosis,</i>’ <a href="https://goodreads.com/author/show/15811.Rebecca_Solnit" title="Rebecca Solnit" rel="noopener">Rebecca Solnit</a> writes in her essay <a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/39688744.Call_Them_by_Their_True_Names_American_Crises__and_Essays_" title="Call Them by Their True Names American Crises (and Essays) by Rebecca Solnit" rel="noopener">Call Them by Their True Names</a>, ‘<i>once you name a disorder, you may be able to connect to the community afflicted with it, or build one.</i>’ Seeing as the creation turns to evil deeds due to a feeling of isolation and being othered, this idea of naming, of giving a space, makes the lack of naming or any parental care more emphasized as a fatal misstep. So not only does Victor have his fall from grace for trying to play god, but also failing in even the most basics of paternal support. <br /><br />‘<i>Am i to be thought the only criminal, when all human kind sinned against me?</i>’<br /><br />Let's turn now to Frankenstein’s monster. Left to his own devices, this giant manufactured from death finds he is met with fear and misunderstanding at every turn. While he seems to only have pure intentions at first, he is pushed into solitude and begins to lash out, especially at his creator (definitely some religious symbolism there). While he may be manmade, he is also very human all the way down to emotions and existential crises of selfhood:<br /><blockquote>‘<i>I was dependent on none and related to none. The path of my departure was free, and there was none to lament my annihilation. My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them.</i>’</blockquote><br /> The creature conducts his autodidactic education mostly through reading and watching a family interact. Among his books are Goethe’s <a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/16640.The_Sorrows_of_Young_Werther" title="The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" rel="noopener">The Sorrows of Young Werther</a>, and Milton’s <a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/15997.Paradise_Lost" title="Paradise Lost by John Milton" rel="noopener">Paradise Lost</a>, the latter being very influential on his impressions of the world and themself. From Milton he reads himself first as Adam in the creation story, but later identifies with Satan instead:<br /><blockquote>‘<i>I am thy creature: I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed. Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.</i>’</blockquote><br />Though he also notes that ‘<i>yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone</i>’ Milton pops up everywhere in his sections, such as the monsters statement that ‘<i>evil thenceforth became my good,</i>’ which paraphrases Milton’s line ‘<i>Evil be thou my good.</i>’ In an <a href="http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/Articles/oates.html" rel="nofollow noopener">essay on the novel</a>, <a href="https://goodreads.com/author/show/3524.Joyce_Carol_Oates" title="Joyce Carol Oates" rel="noopener">Joyce Carol Oates</a> argues that the monster’s surprise at his reflection in the water is not a reference to Narcissus as is typically claimed, but instead a reference to Eve from Paradise Lost: ‘<i>Of sympathy and love; there I had fixt / Mine eyes till now, and pin’d with vain desire.</i>’ This, she argues, makes the monster a sort of reverse holy trinity of creation instead of creator, speaking from Milton’s Adam, Eve and Satan as opposed to the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. There is another interesting reversal that Shelley plays with, something <a href="http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/Articles/veeder.html" rel="nofollow noopener">William Veeder calls</a> the ‘negative Oedipus.’ The monster kills Elizabeth to get to his ‘father’, Frankenstein, while the death of the doctor’s mother is his motivation to play Holy Father. At all times Shelley constructs a duality of parenthood and horror.<br /><br />While the classic human vs nature and the whole ethical conundrum is fascinating, it is the look at the person under the extreme absence of love and support that grabs me most. On one hand it is an intriguing look at the horrors of isolation and being othered, but it also makes me wonder how narratives like this became concrete in collective consciousness and instill further fear into people against anything different. Is this also central to ideas of xenophobia and pushbacks against equality, the fear that if we allow the marginalized to have space they will harm the people-of-status-quo/colonizers as a state of revenge? Thinking about it that way is frustrating and sad, the idea that those who have been harmed continue to be so out of fear for the repercussions, which only furthers the othering and marginalizing. So I guess that’s something to consider too and work on undoing in social consciousness. And a reminder to give love and empathy. The creation only wanted to be understood, given empathy and space, given love. <br /><br />‘<i>I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.</i>’<br /><br />Now the question here proposed by Shelley is, who is the ‘true’ monster? The man who reached for the profane and abandoned it into a life of torment turning toward evil, or the misunderstood being thrust into the world already considered an abomination and becoming ‘<i>malicious because I am miserable.</i>’ Its ethical quandaries like this that make this a fantastic classroom choice or one to toss and turn with for days. The National Theater had an excellent <a href="https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/nt-at-home-frankenstein#production-story" rel="nofollow noopener">stage adaptation</a> where the two leads, Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller, alternated roles as Frankenstein and Frankenstein’s monster to further interrogate this question. Though perhaps the creation says it best: ‘<i>Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!</i>’<br /><br />In an <a href="https://lithub.com/jeanette-winterson-and-mark-oconnell-on-the-future-of-humanity-in-a-tech-dominated-world/" rel="nofollow noopener">interview with LitHub</a>, author <a href="https://goodreads.com/author/show/9399.Jeanette_Winterson" title="Jeanette Winterson" rel="noopener">Jeanette Winterson</a> says of <i>Frankenstein</i> that ‘<i>we are the first generations to read it not as gothic horror but as contemporary reality.</i>’ Where Shelley’s doctor steals body parts to create life with electricity, in our modern day we are pushing closer towards digital AI and already have manufactured body parts to replace our own. Even just this week it has been in the news that scientists <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/03/science/pigs-organs-death.html" rel="nofollow noopener">have revived cells in dead pig’s brains and other organs</a>, something that could be a breakthrough in increasing viable organ transplants. Perhaps there is something to learn from Victor’s failures as we consider how to usher new systems into the world, such as <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/18/21121286/algorithms-bias-discrimination-facial-recognition-transparency" rel="nofollow noopener">issues of bias in algorithms</a>, or if an AI were to learn from us, what are we reflecting back to ourselves. Perhaps this is why Mary Shelley’s classic has endured all this time; with each new advancement in science many fear a Frankenstein unleashing his monster and with each ambition of our own we fear what may happen if we are blinded by our desires. 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when he says "Hateful day when i received life!" and "I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. 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dir="auto"><div class="TruncatedContent" tabindex="-1"><div class="TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large" tabindex="-1" data-testid="contentContainer"><span class="Formatted"><br />It's been fifty years since I had read <i>Frankenstein</i>, and, now—after a recent second reading—I am pleased to know that the pleasures of that first reading have been revived. Once again--just as it was in my teens--I was thrilled by the first glimpse of the immense figure of the monster, driving his sled across the arctic ice, and marveled at the artful use of narrative frames within frame, each subsequent frame leading us closer to the heart of the novel, until we hear the alienated yet articulate voice of the creature himself. In addition, I admired the equally artful way the novel moves backward through the same frames until we again reach the arctic landscape which is the scene of the novel's beginning...and its end.<br /><br />This time through, I was particularly struck with how Mary must have been influenced by the novels of her father. The relentless hounding of one man by another who feels his life has been poisoned by that man's irresponsible curiosity is a theme taken straight out of Godwin's <i>Caleb Williams</i>, and the cautionary account of a monomaniac who gradually deprives himself of the satisfactions of family, friends and love in pursuit of an intellectual ideal is reminiscent of the alchemist of <i>St. Leon</i>. Her prose also is like her father's in her ability to make delicate philosophical distinctions and express abstract ideas, but she is a much better writer than he: her sentences are more elegant and disciplined, and her descriptive details more aptly chosen and her scenes more effectively realized.<br /><br />The conclusion of the novel seems hasty and incomplete, but perhaps that is because the concept of <i>Frankenstein</i> is so revolutionary that no conclusion could have seemed satisfactory. At any rate, this fine novel has given birth to a host of descendants, and—unlike Victor Frankenstein—is a worthy parent of its many diverse creations.</span></div><div class=""></div></div></section></section><section class="ReviewCard__tags"><ul class="CollapsableList"><span tabindex="-1"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/83582?shelf=detective-mystery" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">detective-mystery</span></a><span tabindex="-1"> </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/83582?shelf=epistolary" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">epistolary</span></a><span tabindex="-1"> </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/83582?shelf=gothic" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">gothic</span></a></span><span tabindex="-1"></span> <div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium" aria-label="Show all items in the list"><span class="Button__labelItem">...more</span></button></div></ul></section><footer class="SocialFooter"><div data-testid="stats" class="SocialFooter__statsContainer"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">461 likes</span></button></div><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">25 comments</span></button></div></div><div data-testid="actions"><div class="SocialFooter__action"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium" aria-label="Review unliked. 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I listened to an audiobook on YouTube (as it is under the public domain). You can find it here: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuyEaMdcwWU&t=20105s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuyEa...</a>. It was great. The narrator did a great job of building the atmosphere and excitement in the story. I always love reading the original stories behind some very iconic pop culture figures. Frankenstein is obviously incredibly popular. It was great to read and do a little bit of a personal independent study on (major nerd here). 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Todo el tiempo me mantuvo intrigada y, sorprendentemente, no me esperaba nada de lo que pasó, no tenía idea de cómo iba a desarrollarse la historia.</span></div><div class=""></div></div></section></section><section class="ReviewCard__tags"><ul class="CollapsableList"><span tabindex="-1"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/13061577?shelf=2023" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">2023</span></a></span><span tabindex="-1"></span></ul></section><footer class="SocialFooter"><div data-testid="stats" class="SocialFooter__statsContainer"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">416 likes</span></button></div><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">2 comments</span></button></div></div><div data-testid="actions"><div class="SocialFooter__action"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium" aria-label="Review unliked. 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2022</a></span></section><section class="ReviewText"><section class="ReviewText__content" dir="auto"><div class="TruncatedContent" tabindex="-1"><div class="TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large" tabindex="-1" data-testid="contentContainer"><span class="Formatted">Let´s sew some bodyparts together<br /><br />Creating life has never been so disgusting<br />And it started an avalanche of fantasy, horror, and sci fi ideas on how to best pimp one's corpse, zombie, alien parasite, etc. Before Frankenstein, there has always been the idea of resurrecting the dead, something comparable to the concept of creating life out of a modular system with different parts lego style. That´s the <br /><br />Underlying ethical, philosophical part<br />Besides faith, there is an open question about identity, soul, consciousness, and especially death. Something so deeply build into our fragile flesh systems that it freaks us out each time we are confronted with it. Thinking about the implications is what Frankenstein is about, mixed with <br /><br />Borderline science and the question of who is really evil<br />Mad scientists are certainly as old as time, although I can´t choose if a crazy priest vivisecting human sacrifices is cooler than a Star Wars/Trek antagonist letting robots and AI do all the dirty work. However, it often seems as if the creature, monster, or übermensch created was the truly terrible thing and not the people sponsoring this stuff. By contrasting this with the <input type="checkbox" class="spoiler__control" aria-label="The following text has been marked spoiler. 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A reason for that might be that it´s much easier to create a stereotypical work without much depth than to show the complex inner lives of all protagonists and antagonists. <br />Integrating this element opens up many ethical implications regarding who the real monster is, leading to <br /><br />Too many open questions that can´t be answered easily<br />So instead of being an action filled or thrilling horror fantasy novel, Frankenstein is much deeper than one would expect. 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(if you know, you know ;) <br />watch the discussion for The Late Night Book Club: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1GxIQWE6M4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1GxI...</a><br /><br /><b>4 STARS</b><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/elliasreads" rel="nofollow noopener">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/elliasreads/" rel="nofollow noopener">Bookstagram</a> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/ellias" rel="nofollow noopener">Youtube</a> |</span></div><div class=""></div></div></section></section><section class="ReviewCard__tags"><ul class="CollapsableList"><span tabindex="-1"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/13699205?shelf=2022-books" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">2022-books</span></a><span tabindex="-1"> </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/13699205?shelf=i-own" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">i-own</span></a></span><span tabindex="-1"></span></ul></section><footer class="SocialFooter"><div data-testid="stats" class="SocialFooter__statsContainer"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">290 likes</span></button></div></div><div data-testid="actions"><div class="SocialFooter__action"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium" aria-label="Review unliked. 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2018</a></span></section><section class="ReviewText"><section class="ReviewText__content" dir="auto"><div class="TruncatedContent" tabindex="-1"><div class="TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large" tabindex="-1" data-testid="contentContainer"><span class="Formatted">REREAD UPDATE - September 2018:<br /><br />One of my bookclubs (<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/158858-reading-list-completists" rel="nofollow noopener">Click to check out Reading List Completists</a>) is reading this for September 2018. I figure it was a good time for a reread since it was one of my favorites and it has been over 20 years since I read it. <br /><br />I did enjoy it again this time and it stands up to the 5 star review and designation of classic. There were a few slow parts - mainly when Dr. Frankenstein would stop the narrative to wax poetical about something - but, not enough t take a way from my overall enjoyment.<br /><br />I still recommend this for everyone and be sure to check out my full original review below.<br /><br />ORIGINAL REVIEW:<br /><br />This is definitely one of my favorite books I was required to read in High School. Also, it is my favorite of the classic horror novels. It is perfectly written, suspenseful, and is a bit more thought provoking than scary. One of the best ways I can compare it to other classic horror novels is to Dracula - which I read recently. Dracula has so much repetitive filler that you do not find in Frankenstein, which is the main reason I find Frankenstein to be a more enjoyable book.<br /><br />Also, I would say that this is more a novel of the human condition than an actual horror novel. Some terrifying things happen, but it is the monster within all of us that may end up being more terrifying! <br /><br />Funny side story: when I read this in High School, it was around the same time that the Kenneth Branaugh adaptation came out at the theaters. We were all encouraged to go see it and found it pretty close to the source material. What was amusing was that Time Magazine had a review of the movie bashing it as untrue to the source material and how disappointed Shelley would be that the Boris Karlovian depiction of a lurching, flattop monster with bolts in its neck was ignored for a more serious drama movie. WHAT!? Time Magazine, for goodness sakes, published an article that claims to know the content of the book but is completely wrong and does it while bashing a movie that did a pretty good job with it!? I mean, it it is okay if you prefer the old time movie version of Frankenstein - and it is a classic - but to make definitive statements that are completely wrong in what is supposed to be a well thought of publication (not your typical tabloid supermarket checkout fodder), that is just too much!<br /><br />We need a copy editor over here!</span></div><div class=""></div></div></section></section><section class="ReviewCard__tags"><ul class="CollapsableList"><span tabindex="-1"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/16254355?shelf=2018" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">2018</span></a><span tabindex="-1"> </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/16254355?shelf=action-thriller" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">action-thriller</span></a><span tabindex="-1"> </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/16254355?shelf=audio" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">audio</span></a></span><span tabindex="-1"></span> <div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium" aria-label="Show all items in the list"><span class="Button__labelItem">...more</span></button></div></ul></section><footer class="SocialFooter"><div data-testid="stats" class="SocialFooter__statsContainer"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">283 likes</span></button></div><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">41 comments</span></button></div></div><div data-testid="actions"><div class="SocialFooter__action"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium" aria-label="Review unliked. 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2016</a></span></section><section class="ReviewText"><section class="ReviewText__content" dir="auto"><div class="TruncatedContent" tabindex="-1"><div class="TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large" tabindex="-1" data-testid="contentContainer"><span class="Formatted">Mucho se ha hablado de <i>Frankenstein</i>. Se interpreta como una crítica al desarrollo científico, cuando este sobrepasa el curso natural de las cosas; se interpreta como una crítica a la religión y nuestra relación con Dios; hasta se ha dicho que es una alegoría a los miedos que surgen durante un embarazo. Todas estas lecturas probablemente sean correctas, pero omiten lo más básico. Lo que hace a <i>Frankenstein</i> una obra atiborrada de humanidad, con interpolaciones que abordan la desventura a través de la complejidad de tres voces que derraman soledad y melancolía. <br /><br />Si intentara tratar a <i>Frankenstein</i> desde lo más superficial, acabaría hablando sobre la profundidad del espíritu humano y los peligros que conlleva un uso desmedido de sus facultades cognitivas o la influencia del sentimiento en sus actos. No se puede discutir este título sin penetrar en lo más reflexivo de nuestra naturaleza. <i>Frankenstein</i>, en su perfil más somero, abarca temas que atraviesan la columna vertebral de lo que nos hace seres en constante conflicto de moralidades y en una interminable búsqueda por pertenecer y ser reconocidos, como asimismo incluye el derecho a ser amados por al menos alguien en la vida.<br /><br />A partir de un análisis ligero, <i>Frankenstein</i> trata la venganza y el abandono. Son las dos cuestiones principales que hacen esta historia una historia con movimiento. La venganza desde el arrebato y la venganza desde el rechazo. También cabe destacar que es admirable la caracterización del Creador y su Criatura, y sus interminables pugnas por quién posee la más dañina amenaza; ya que, si lo vemos de esa forma, y teniendo en cuenta la completa implicación de las circunstancias en la novela, ¿qué es más nocivo, el rechazo injustificado o el asesinato como consecuencia de una iniquidad anterior?<br /><br />La denominada Criatura, Demonio, Engendro o Monstruo es de los personajes más humanos con los que me he topado. Es suntuosa la carga emotiva, el abigarramiento en el interior de un ser que fue engendrado por ciencia mal utilizada. Un vínculo irónico entre un hombre que quería ser dios y un ser que siempre quiso ser hombre. Para mí esta es la crítica más punzante de Mary Shelley. Repudia que nos dejemos llevar por las apariencias en vez de detenernos a pensar en lo que estamos haciendo. La egolatría, la soberbia y el prejuicio son lo más lamentable de nuestra conducta como humanidad, y esas condiciones danzaron alrededor del llamado Monstruo y acabaron destruyendo la bondad más pura, que, prácticamente, ni había llegado a florecer.<br /><br />No voy a omitir la prosa, que acompaña a la perfección la calidad de este libro. No hay mejor pluma que la que te abraza y te lleva consigo en un viaje por el tiempo y el espacio hacia su historia. Mientras leía <i>Frankenstein</i>, me sentía allí, junto a Víctor y a su Criatura, percibía la realidad que me rodeaba como falsa, como un pobre bosquejo de lo que estaba leyendo, y creía que mi pertenencia radicaba en el siglo XVII. La ambientación de Shelley es tan estupenda que fue capaz de sobrepasar los límites de la narrativa e invadir el mundo real. Excelente trabajo de la autora. Su estilo de escritura es de los puntos más fuertes del texto.<br /><br /><i>Frankenstein</i> se ha transformado en una de mis obras favoritas. Su retrato de la soledad, el aislamiento forzado, la pérdida y la derrota es sublime. 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2022</a></span></section><section class="ReviewText"><section class="ReviewText__content" dir="auto"><div class="TruncatedContent" tabindex="-1"><div class="TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large" tabindex="-1" data-testid="contentContainer"><span class="Formatted"><b>LA MELODIA DEL DOLORE</b><br><br><img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1535002088i/26181378._SX540_.jpg" width="400" height="275" alt="description" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><br><b>Ecco il primo Frankenstein della storia del cinema: 1910, è un cortometraggio muto, americano, regia di James, Searley Dawley.</b><br><br>Sono passati duecento anni, due secoli tra questo 2018 e quella notte del 1818.<br><i>Sono la tua creatura, ricordalo: avrei dovuto essere il tuo Adamo, e sono invece l’angelo caduto che tu hai allontanato dalla gioia senza colpa alcuna da parte sua.</i><br><br><img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1535002088i/26181379.jpg" width="400" height="226" alt="description" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><br><b>Dieci anni dopo, 1920, sempre epoca di cinema muto, il primo Frankenstein italiano: la regia è di Eugenio Testa, Umberto Guarracino interpreta il Mostro (questo è l’unico fotogramma sopravvissuto del film).</b><br><br>Non si può dire che Mary Shelley sia nata sotto i migliori auspici.<br>Figlia dei <i>due più grandi uomini del loro tempo</i> (definizione che credo sia di Mario Praz), la madre Mary Wollstonecraft, probabilmente la prima femminista della storia, e il padre William Godwin, intellettuale e filosofo radicale, la futura signora Shelley nacque il 30 agosto al posto del figlio maschio che era atteso e per il quale era già pronto il nome di William junior.<br>Il 30 agosto venne alla luce Mary, la madre si ammalò, dieci giorni di febbre, e, il 10 settembre morì. <br>Segno indelebile sulla piccola Mary che probabilmente da questo momento acquistò la predisposizione al dolore e la sensibilità esasperata. Una <i>storia più romantica d’ogni possibile romanzo</i>, come Mary stessa definì la sua vita.<br>Sembra che ogni giorno si recasse sulla tomba della madre: a piangere, ma a sedici anni anche a promettere amore eterno al suo principe, o meglio, al suo poeta azzurro, Percy Bysshe Shelley.<br><br><img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1535002088i/26181380._SY540_.jpg" width="399" height="500" alt="description" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><br><b>Il Frankenstein che ha cambiato la storia: 1931, regia di James Whale, così appare Boris Karloff nei panni della creatura dopo quattro ore quotidiane di trucco. Da qui in avanti l’aspetto fisico del mostro si rifarà a questo modello.</b><br><br>Per continuare sul terreno fecondo alla sua narrativa impregnata di <i>sorrowful mood</i>, Mary a 19 anni ha già perso la prima figlia, dopo solo un mese dalla nascita; partorisce un maschio, che muore a tre anni; ha un’altra femmina, che muore a un anno. <br>Più o meno nello stesso periodo, la sorella maggiore Fanny, figlia di padre diverso, si suicida con il laudano. Nel giro di poco si suicida anche la prima moglie di Shelley, preparando così la strada al matrimonio tra la scrittrice e il poeta.<br>Mary riuscì a seppellire anche il suo amato Percy, che morì annegato.<br><br><img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1535002088i/26181381._SX540_.jpg" width="400" height="225" alt="description" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><br><b>Il romanzo di Polidori fu scritto contemporaneamente a quello della Shelley.</b><br><br>È proprio in questo arco di tempo, segnato da morte e suicidio (tutte morti premature, se esiste un tipo di morte che non lo sia), che Mary Shelley partorisce il suo romanzo più famoso, <i>Frankenstein, or, the modern Prometheus</i>, tra il 1816 e il 1817, tra i diciannove e i venti anni (fu pubblicato nel 1818).<br>La genesi è aneddoto piuttosto noto: Mary è convinta da sua sorella Claire (Clairmont: stessa madre ma padre differente), che all’epoca era l’amate di Lord Byron, a seguirla a Ginevra dove affittano Villa Diodati. La comitiva è composta da Mary e Shelley, Claire e Byron, il medico e scrittore John Polidori. Tempo piovoso, fu l’anno definito “senza estate”, gli amici leggono molto, soprattutto storie tedesche di fantasmi e il <i>Paradiso Perduto</i> di John Milton. Alla fine (solo tre giorni), Mary produce il Frankenstein, Byron frammenti di un romanzo, e Polidori <i>Il Vampiro</i>, il primo vampiro moderno.<br><br><img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1535002088i/26181382.jpg" width="400" height="266" alt="description" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><br><b>La versione cinematografica che trovo più prossima al romanzo della Shelley è questa, del 1994: regia di Kenneth Branagh, Robert De Niro interpreta la mostruosa creatura.</b><br><br>Si direbbe che Mary tolga la vita a chi la genera (la morte di parto di sua madre) e generi chi in vita non sa restare (i tre figli): nascere è direttamente collegato al morire, che col Frankenstein diventa assassinio.<br>E Mary si sente contemporaneamente sia il creatore Frankenstein che la mostruosa creatura: Victor Frankenstein, lo scienziato e costruttore impegnato a riprodurre la vita (dalla morte, servendosi di parti di persone già morte) rifiuta la creatura che ha messo al mondo, e la creatura rifiutata si trasforma in agente di distruzione e morte, con metodo, ostinazione, e si direbbe quasi passione, si impegna a distruggere la famiglia del suo autore. <br>Nel senso che, se la famiglia non lo vuole, il neonato (di dimensioni e proporzioni mostruose) eliminerà la famiglia.<br><br><img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1535002088i/26181383._SX540_.jpg" width="400" height="225" alt="description" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><br><b>Kenneth Branagh, regista e interprete, nei panni (pantaloni) del dottor Victor Frankenstein.</b><br><br>Viene da rintracciare una genesi del pensiero materno in materia di femminilità nel rifiuto della creatura al momento del concepimento: invece di provare affetto in qualche modo ‘paterno’, Frankenstein classifica la sua creazione come mostruosa sulla base del solo aspetto fisico e la respinge immediatamente (rifiuta, rinnega…). <br>Eppure il ‘neonato’ non può essere malvagio fin dal primo momento, non può essere nato cattivo.<br><br><img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1535002088i/26181384.jpg" width="386" height="482" alt="description" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><br><b>Ed ecco qui a confronto la creatura e il suo creatore, Frankenstein/Branagh e Mostro/De Niro.</b><br><br>Victor Frankenstein, medico e scienziato, è il moderno Prometeo: che ruba il fuoco della vita, ruba la vita alla stessa morte: la materia morta si trasforma in energia viva. Orrenda metamorfosi!<br>Ma se è Frankenstein a sfidare dio, è sulla creatura che si scatena la punizione divina!<br>È la stessa Shelley a essere, per così dire, schizofrenica con i suoi due personaggi: per quanto il lettore dovrebbe tifare in automatico per la creatura che è innocente, è una tabula rasa, dato che è appena nata, e certo non responsabile della sua nascita (come non lo è nessun figlio), la Shelley ci spinge (forse perfino di più) a prendere le parti del dottor Frankenstein, ci vuol convincere che la creatura è un mostro prima di tutto per il suo aspetto fisico (brutta, antiestetica).<br>Jekyll e Hyde con settanta anni d’anticipo.<br><br><img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1535002088i/26181385._SX540_.jpg" width="400" height="306" alt="description" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><br><b>Non poteva mancare il capolavoro, “young Frankenstein” di Mel Brooks (1974). Qui, Aigor “appena morto”.</b><br><br>Ma è un mostro umano, probabilmente il primo, e sin dalla sua prima apparizione il terrore si mescola alla compassione, perché la Creatura, che ruba il nome al suo creatore diventando Frankenstein tout court, è da subito un infelice, una vittima, un diverso, qualcuno con cui possiamo identificarci.<br>Talmente umano da diventare sovrumano: la sua dimensione sessuale è elemento di curiosità e attrazione, almeno sullo schermo. Si pensi a Udo Kier che si accoppia con Dalila Di Lazzaro in <i>Il mostro è in tavola, barone Frankenstein</i> prodotto da Andy Warhol, oppure ad Aldo Maccione macho trash in <i>Frankenstein all’italiana</i>, al Frank-N-Furter in guêpière e paillettes in <i>The Rocky Horror Picture Show</i>, o al tenerissimo mostro creatura di Mel Brooks dotato di grosso schwanzstuck.<br><br><img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1541059139i/26531213._SX540_.jpg" width="400" height="263" alt="description" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><br><b>Creatore e creatura, padre e figlio, Gene Wilder e Peter Boyle.</b><br><br><i>Tutti gli uomini odiano gli sciagurati. Quanto allora devo essere odiato io, di gran lunga il più miserabile tra gli esseri viventi. Pure tu, mio creatore, detesti e disprezzi me, tua creatura, a cui sei legato da vincoli che solo l’annientamento di uno di noi può sciogliere</i>.<br><br><br>PS<br>I film dove compare Frankenstein, o meglio, la sua creatura, il Mostro, sono decine, io ne ho contati oltre settanta, incluse le parodie (su tutte, Frankenstein Jr), i cross-over (Frankenstein contro l’Uomo Lupo) , le parodie cross-over (Fracchia contro Dracula).<br><br><img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1601960965i/30199147._SX540_.jpg" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><br><b>Tim Curry indimenticabile Dr Frank-N-Furter in the “Rocky Horror Picture Show”, il primo artefice bisessuale della “creatura”.</b></span></div><div class=""></div></div></section></section><section class="ReviewCard__tags"><ul class="CollapsableList"><span tabindex="-1"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/10490224?shelf=horror" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">horror</span></a><span tabindex="-1"> </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/10490224?shelf=inglese" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">inglese</span></a></span><span tabindex="-1"></span></ul></section><footer class="SocialFooter"><div data-testid="stats" class="SocialFooter__statsContainer"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">265 likes</span></button></div><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">15 comments</span></button></div></div><div data-testid="actions"><div class="SocialFooter__action"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium" aria-label="Review unliked. 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class="TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large" tabindex="-1" data-testid="contentContainer"><span class="Formatted"><b>“It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs…”</b><br />- Mary Shelley, <i>Frankenstein</i> <br /><br /><i>Frankenstein</i> is a marvelous example of a book that escaped from its author and took on an entirely new existence beyond the boundaries of the page. There is an elegant symmetry to this. After all, the novel concerns a “monster” or “daemon” that slips away from its creator, the scientist Victor Frankenstein, to cause havoc in the world. <br /><br />Today, when we think of Frankenstein – or more accurately, about scientist Victor Frankenstein’s never-named creature – we are likely imagining something other than the somewhat vaguely-described human-ish thing in Mary Shelley’s 1818 horror classic. Unmoored from its literary roots, the Frankenstein’s monster we call forth in our minds is probably closer in conception to Boris Karloff’s famous version from the 1930s: square-headed and scarred, with metal bolts in the neck. This is a visage that is ubiquitous every October, found in movies, on television, and selling Halloween candy. <br /><br />Part of the fun of reading <i>Frankenstein</i> is to see how far this cobbled-together man has traveled from Shelley’s original iteration. Frankly, this was probably the <i>only</i> fun I had, as <i>Frankenstein</i>, for all its bursts of creativity, its sudden flashes of discrete violence, is a bit of a wordy drag. It is fully a piece from the Romantic era, from the overwrought emotional excesses of its characters, to the gorgeous, travelogue-like descriptions of the Alps. <br /><br />***<br /><br />According to Shelley – in an 1831 forward to the revised text – <i>Frankenstein</i> had its genesis in a spontaneous parlor game between famed wordsmiths, of which she took part. Only eighteen at the time, Shelley was vacationing in Lake Geneva with her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the famous Lord Byron. Byron apparently suggested they each write a ghost story, since the weather was too lousy to do much else. Mary Shelley’s contribution, according to this lore, was <i>Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus</i>. The short story she began in a cold and dispiriting Switzerland eventually became a full-length novel that is currently enjoying a two-hundred year afterlife. <br /><br />***<br /><br />As an aside, Shelley’s life, and her relationship with the doomed Percy, is worth exploring. There is free love, unfounded suggestions that Percy penned <i>Frankenstein</i>, and tragedy aplenty.<br /><br />*** <br /><br /><i>Frankenstein</i> utilizes an epistolary framing device, both beginning and ending with a series of “letters” from an adventurous mariner to his sister. Initially, I was entirely uncertain what these missives had to do with Frankenstein and his monster. As a result, the novel started extremely slow for me, as I found myself reading only a couple pages at a time before losing interest, never really finding the hook. Ultimately – as you can see – I pushed through, but it was only much later, when the letters reappear at the end, that everything clicked into place (and I went back and reread the opening gambit). <br /><br />Once this prelude is out of the way, we begin the main part of the narrative, which is told in the first-person by the emotionally labile Frankenstein. For reasons put down to obsession, young Frankenstein is preoccupied with creating new life. Working alone and in fanatical devotion to his goal, Frankenstein begins assembling his <i>thing</i>: <br /><br /><blockquote>I collected bones from charnel-houses; and disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secrets of the human frame. In a solitary chamber, or rather cell, at the top of the house, and separated from all the other apartments by a gallery and staircase, I kept my workshop of filthy creation: my eye-balls were starting from their sockets in attending to the details of my employment. The dissecting room and the slaughterhouse furnished many of my materials; and often did my human nature turn with loathing from my occupation, whilst, still urged on by an eagerness which perpetually increased, I brought my work near to a conclusion.</blockquote><br /><br />It does not – <i>should</i> not – spoil anything to say that Frankenstein is successful in his endeavors, at least up to a point. <br /><br />***<br /><br />The monster or creature or daemon or whatever you’d like to call it – just don’t call it Frankenstein – comes to life and immediately begins to torment Victor. Unlike the shambling, slow-moving, slow-witted monster of modern pop culture, Shelley’s creature moves faster than the zombies in <i>28 Days Later</i>, climbs mountains like Sly Stallone in <i>Cliffhanger</i>, and is an exceptionally advanced autodidact, not only teaching himself to speak, but to read <i>Paradise Lost</i> and <i>Plutarch’s Lives</i>. <br /><br />Frankenstein and his monster engage in a globetrotting game of cat-and-mouse, which might have been exciting, if not written in the overly formal, cluttered style of the early nineteenth century. Shelley tells this story broadly, seldom taking any time to build a scene, ratchet up suspense, or pay off a plot arc. Instead, through the excitable, often operatically frantic voice of Frankenstein, we are given broad characters (Elizabeth, for instance, seems to be a forerunner of Dickens’s saintly – and boring – Esther Summerson), unexciting action, and pointedly telegraphed plot points. It says something that the high point of <i>Frankenstein</i> is a story-within-a-story (in true Conradian fashion) told by the monster itself. <br /><br />Honestly, I have a predisposition against books written in the archaic-feeling style of <i>Frankenstein</i>. It is something I always thought I’d grow out of as I aged. Alas, it has been two decades since high school, and my bias against writers who use <i>thee</i> and <i>thy</i> still abides. <br /><br />That is not to say I recommend skipping this novel, because I don’t. I also did not hate it, not by any means. The story works better in summary than in execution, and it requires close attention, but it is a genuine triumph of imagination. It is also far more polished and thematically coherent than Bram Stoker’s later attempt at Gothic horror (which has also turned out to be undying). <br /><br />***<br /><br />Certain books have meanings beyond the composition of sentences and the contours of a storyline. Shelley created something in <i>Frankenstein</i> that has endured for a couple centuries, and will likely live on forever, as long as people read. For that reason – if not <i>only</i> for that reason – this classic example of a thinking person’s horror novel is worth checking out.</span></div><div class=""></div></div></section></section><section class="ReviewCard__tags"><ul class="CollapsableList"><span tabindex="-1"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1232712?shelf=classic-novels" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">classic-novels</span></a><span tabindex="-1"> </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1232712?shelf=horror" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">horror</span></a></span><span tabindex="-1"></span></ul></section><footer class="SocialFooter"><div data-testid="stats" class="SocialFooter__statsContainer"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">257 likes</span></button></div><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">11 comments</span></button></div></div><div data-testid="actions"><div class="SocialFooter__action"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium" aria-label="Review unliked. 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data-testid="contentContainer"><span class="Formatted">I have a favourite Kate Beaton strip framed up in our book room:<br><br><img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1380439499i/1012395._SX540_.png" width="400" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><br><i>(Full-size image <a href="http://harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=56" rel="nofollow noopener">here</a>.)</i><br><br>Mary was – what? – eighteen years old when she went on this famous holiday to Lake Geneva with Percy Bysshe Shelley and Byron and Byron's physician. She was calling herself ‘Mrs Shelley’, though they had not yet married – Percy was still married to someone else.<br><br>The surroundings were familiar. The last time Mary and Percy had come to Switzerland had been during their elopement a couple of years earlier, accompanied by her sister, who was also in love with him; Mary had got pregnant, but the baby girl was born prematurely and died in February 1815. Now they were back, trying to put the past behind them and enjoy a holiday with Byron, who at the time was sleeping with Mary's stepsister. Percy's first wife would soon be out of the picture, found drowned in the Serpentine in an ‘advanced state of pregnancy’ before the year was out. Mary's other sister Fanny also drowned herself that year, 1816, also pining for Percy.<br><br>So it was in the midst of this complex love-dodecahedron that the holidaymakers, their festive plans foiled by constant rain, held their famous competition to write a ghost story. The result is something very different from its image in popular culture. Instead of the smoke of Victorian London, we have the Swiss Alps and the Orkney Islands; instead of Igor and bolts through the neck, we have meditations on personal autonomy, scientific responsibility and eugenics.<br><br><i>Frankenstein</i> is overwritten and the narrative structure is a bit odd – she was still a teenager when she wrote it, let's not forget – but thematically, it's fascinating. I'm surprised by how few reviews I've read touch on what seems to me to be the intensely female experiences that it obliquely comments on. The confusion of bringing a creature into the world only to feel horror and revulsion towards it. The stress of releasing it into a hostile and uncaring world. And perhaps most of all, the deep sympathy shown with someone who feels that their body is not their own, that it is somehow owned and regulated by others. A body that one is taught by society to hate. The monster's feelings are unimportant, because he was created by a man for the man's own gratification.<br><br>Mary quotes her beloved Percy Bysshe Shelley, unattributively, when Dr Frankenstein first spots his creature up on the Mer de Glace. She uses the final two stanzas from ‘Mutability’. For me though it's the beautiful first stanza that better expresses the ferocious intensity of Mary and her circle of friends and lovers, surrounded as they all seemed to be by imminent, premature death:<br><br><blockquote>We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon;<br> How restlessly they speed, and gleam, and quiver,<br>Streaking the darkness radiantly!—yet soon<br> Night closes round, and they are lost forever…</blockquote><br><br>As they all were. But the writing they left behind will last as long as English literature is read, and for all of its problems <i>Frankenstein</i> is among that select group.</span></div><div class=""></div></div></section></section><section class="ReviewCard__tags"><ul class="CollapsableList"><span tabindex="-1"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/53165?shelf=ebooks" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">ebooks</span></a><span tabindex="-1"> </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/53165?shelf=fiction" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">fiction</span></a><span tabindex="-1"> </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/53165?shelf=geneva" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">geneva</span></a></span><span tabindex="-1"></span> <div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium" aria-label="Show all items in the list"><span class="Button__labelItem">...more</span></button></div></ul></section><footer class="SocialFooter"><div data-testid="stats" class="SocialFooter__statsContainer"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">259 likes</span></button></div><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">35 comments</span></button></div></div><div data-testid="actions"><div class="SocialFooter__action"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium" aria-label="Review unliked. 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TruncatedContent__text--large" tabindex="-1" data-testid="contentContainer"><span class="Formatted"><b>Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelley </b><br /><br />Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797–1851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a grotesque, sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. <br /><br />Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition of the novel was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared on the second edition, published in France in 1823.<br /><br />Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. <br /><br />Frankenstein is a frame story written in epistolary form. <br /><br />It documents a fictional correspondence between Captain Robert Walton and his sister, Margaret Walton Saville. <br /><br />Robert Walton is a failed writer who sets out to explore the North Pole in hopes of expanding scientific knowledge. <br /><br />During the voyage, the crew spots a dog sled driven by a gigantic figure. <br /><br />A few hours later, the crew rescues a nearly frozen and emaciated man named Victor Frankenstein. Frankenstein has been in pursuit of the gigantic man observed by Walton's crew. <br /><br />Frankenstein starts to recover from his exertion; he sees in Walton the same obsession that has destroyed him and recounts a story of his life's miseries to Walton as a warning. <br /><br />The recounted story serves as the frame for Frankenstein's narrative. ...<br /><br />تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز هشتم ماه دسامبر سال 1995میلادی؛ تاریخ خوانش دوم: روز نوزدهم نوامیر سال 2011میلادی<br /><br />عنوان: فرانکشتاین؛ مری شلی؛ مترجم: جعفر مدرس صادقی؛ تهران، نشر مرکز، 1374؛ متن کوتاه شده در 224ص؛ شابک 9643051064؛ موضوع: داستانهای نویسندگان بریتانیا - سده 19م<br /><br />مترجم: محسن سلیمانی؛ تهران؛ قدیانی، چاپ چهارم 1392؛ در 326ص؛ شابک 9789645366184؛<br /><br />عنوان: فرانکنشتاین یا پرومته نوین؛ نویسنده: مری شلی؛ مترجم: کاظم فیروزمند؛ تهران، نشر مرکز، چاپ دوم 1389؛ در 262ص؛ شابک 9789642131037؛ <br /><br />فرانکنشتاین، دانشمند جوانی جاه‌ طلب، و جویای نام است، که جانوری زنده، به شکل انسان، و با ابعاد کمی بزرگ‌تر از یک آدم معمولی، و با ریخت و قیافه‌ ای زشت، و مخوف می‌سازد؛ که همه، از جمله سازنده‌ اش، از دست او، و شرارت‌هایش می‌گریزند؛ اما به تدریج خود آن هیولا، به «فرانکنشتاین» نامدار شده، و این نام، اسم عامی شده، برای آفریده های ویرانگری که از اختیار آفرینشگر خویش نیز، خارج میشوند، و حتی آفریننده نیز، توان مهار نیروی ویرانگر آنها را ندارد؛ «مری شلی»، نویسنده‌ ی این اثر، همسر «شلی»، شاعر بزرگ رمانتیک «بریتانیایی» بودند، و رمان‌های دیگری نیز بنوشته اند، اما تنها همین اثر ایشان بود، که شهرت ماندگار و جهانگیر یافت؛<br /><br />رمانها: «فرانکنشتاین (1818میلادی)»؛ «ماتیلدا (1819 میلادی) - رمان کوتاه»؛ «آخرین نفر (1826میلادی) - در یک سه‌ گانه ی داستانی علمی-تخیلی را روایت می‌کند: سده ی بیست و یکم میلادی است، بیماری طاعون نسل بشر را از بین برده و تنها یک نفر باقی مانده‌ است، آخرین نفر»؛ «والپرگا (1823میلادی) - ماجرایی از زندگی در ایتالیای سده های میانی میلادی را نقل می‌کند»؛ «بخت و اقبال پرکین واربِک (1830میلادی)»؛ «لادور (1835میلادی) - همچنین با عنوان (بیوه زیبا) نیز شناخته می‌شود»؛ «فالکنر (1837 میلادی)؛<br /><br />داستانهای کوتاه: «یادبود»؛ «سفرنامه»؛ «تاریخ شش هفته ‌ای»؛ «وقایع بزرگ و فوق‌العاده»؛ «ولگردی در آلمان و ایتالیا در سال‌های 1840میلادی، 1842میلادی و 1843میلادی»؛<br /><br />شرح حال: شرح زندگانی برجسته ‌ترین ادبا و علما، و ...؛<br /><br />تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 12/07/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی</span></div><div class=""></div></div></section></section><section class="ReviewCard__tags"></section><footer class="SocialFooter"><div data-testid="actions"><div class="SocialFooter__action"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium" aria-label="Review unliked. 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The Tambora volcano eruption 1815 completely changed Europe's climate, particularly between 1816 and 1817. It led to almost glacial periods in the Alps. Around this time, friends Shelley and Byron traveled around Switzerland on vacation. The lousy weather obliges them to often remain secluded in their chalet, with, like a favorite pastime, to invent extraordinary stories. During one of these evenings, it would be born, from the imagination of Mary Shelley, the character of Frankenstein and his creature - feeding on romantic, gothic, and fantastic literature, with the scientific spirit in vogue at the time of the early 19th century. It continued to polish the plot with the help of Percy Shelley. He then relayed by cinema and the high physics of Boris Karloff. And this is how a myth is born!<br />What remains today of good literary work? The plot is very moralizing. Like Prometheus, can a man play the Demiurge? The good feelings, the good, and the bad repeated to excess weigh down the story. Too many lengths on existential themes harm the action. From my point of view, this romanticism no longer passes for today's reader.<br />Following the protagonists' wanderings, there remains a glimpse of Europe during the pivotal period between the 18th and 19th centuries, harmonious and fascinating descriptions of majestic landscapes, and a plot that retains an individual interest despite everything.<br />To read to immerse yourself in the times.</span></div><div class=""></div></div></section></section><section class="ReviewCard__tags"><ul class="CollapsableList"><span tabindex="-1"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/117399210?shelf=british-literature" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">british-literature</span></a><span tabindex="-1"> </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/117399210?shelf=e-4" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">e-4</span></a><span tabindex="-1"> </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/117399210?shelf=fantasy" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">fantasy</span></a></span><span tabindex="-1"></span> <div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium" aria-label="Show all items in the list"><span class="Button__labelItem">...more</span></button></div></ul></section><footer class="SocialFooter"><div data-testid="stats" class="SocialFooter__statsContainer"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">252 likes</span></button></div><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">10 comments</span></button></div></div><div data-testid="actions"><div class="SocialFooter__action"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium" aria-label="Review unliked. 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2018</a></span></section><section class="ReviewText"><section class="ReviewText__content" dir="auto"><div class="TruncatedContent" tabindex="-1"><div class="TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large" tabindex="-1" data-testid="contentContainer"><span class="Formatted">¡Qué daño ha hecho el cine a este libro!<br />El ansia del hombre de ser Dios llevó a Víctor Frankenstein a crear un ser, un ser con apariencia humana de restos de humanos, tan deforme que resultó ser un monstruo en su exterior, pero no en su interior, humano dotado de sentimientos, sensibilidad, que lo que más ansiaba era no estar solo, una compañera con quien compartir su vida y el amor. Ante la negativa de su creador de crear otro "monstruo", el monstruo se vengó.<br />Novela de personajes, que en un momento dado no sé si quién me daba más pena si el creado o el creador, ambos arrepentidos de distintos actos.<br />Fantásticos los personajes secundarios, tanto la familia de Víctor como la familia con la que aprende su criatura o el capitán del barco.<br />La ambientación gótica le dota a la novela de escenas terroríficas, cuando la criatura cobra vida, cuando huye herido tras haber salvado la vida de una niña que se ahogaba...<br />En cierto momento me ha recordado a "los miserables" ¿quién es más miserable? ¿quién es así por su propia naturaleza o quién por las circunstancias acaba así? <br />¿Las circunstancias que te rodean sirven de excusa para realizar esos atroces actos?<br />Ambos parecen las dos caras de una misma moneda o al menos eso me parece a mí.<br />No tengo un personaje favorito, son todos, y lo que más me ha gustado es la narración es casi como una novela epistolar, a veces sientes una narración pausada, tranquila, con matices que parecen versos con tintes oscuros y góticos<br />Trata temas como los límites de la ciencia y la ética, la responsabilidad, la soledad, el amor, el egoísmo..., con muchos matices y muchas lecturas.<br />Un libro muy recomendable.</span></div><div class=""></div></div></section></section><section class="ReviewCard__tags"><ul class="CollapsableList"><span tabindex="-1"></span><span tabindex="-1"></span></ul></section><footer class="SocialFooter"><div data-testid="stats" class="SocialFooter__statsContainer"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">234 likes</span></button></div><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">10 comments</span></button></div></div><div data-testid="actions"><div class="SocialFooter__action"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium" aria-label="Review unliked. 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2023</a></span></section><section class="ReviewText"><section class="ReviewText__content" dir="auto"><div class="TruncatedContent" tabindex="-1"><div class="TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large" tabindex="-1" data-testid="contentContainer"><span class="Formatted">2023<br /><br />nothing like reading this entire book aloud to bonnie because i need her to understand why this book is so good. for me it's because i've never read a book that so vividly describes agony. the mental torment these characters go through and the ways they impact each other will never not hit me hard. i can't believe mary woke up and sat down and wrote this at EIGHTEEN?<br /><br />long story short i am a mont blanc stan and white cishet men need to be humbled. this book is literally the definition of fuck around and find out.<br /><br />--<br />original review<br /><br />WOW.<br /><br />One of the most powerful books I have ever read that speaks so much about compassion and humanity. I feel on the verge of tears, it was so moving. This is like Phantom of the Opera times a thousand. 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Although it is one of my favourite novels, and in my opinion one of the finest pieces of fiction ever written, I find myself with a new appreciation of the text every time I come to it. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA large proportion of one of my PhD chapters is about this novel. I'm discussing the idea of the vegetable diet along with purity and becoming our natural selves. And I'm also considering notions of animal rights, of the idea that man is very much an animal too and he has lost this sense of original self. \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c/i\u003e at its very core is a novel about duality, of our capability to be both good and evil and to be both human and animal. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is so much to take from this book and there's so much that be taken apart, scrutinised and then put back together again. What's truly striking about the work is how much is reflects the anxieties of the age. It's full of insecurities about nature, god, science and our place in the world. Ultimately, it is a novel that creates a sense of unease because it highlights so much about the inauthentic nature of the lives many of us live. Running through the novel is a craving for freedom: a craving to to simply exist in a natural way. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\n \u003cu\u003e2nd Review\u003c/u\u003e\n\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- January 2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome books teach you something new each time you revisit them. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI picked up the tragically wonderful \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c/i\u003e for a fifth time this week, and I was totally mesmerised by the descriptive language used to describe the natural world. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn all my previous readings, I focused on all the classic tropes of man and monster though I never considered the importance of the serene beauty that surrounds the story. The natural world dominates the background of the novel. It’s there, like a pervading monster that lingers in the darkest reaches of the mind. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat struck me most about it was the fact that both Victor and his creation long for a real life, a life where one is truly alive. And they both ponder what this means at length, reaching the same conclusion: to go completely nomad. They both wish to live a life free of burden and complications, no money, no commitments and no responsibility. They just want to be totally free in the wilderness with the ultimate goal of finding happiness by looking after their most immediate and natural desires. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd for me this says a great deal about society, not just the society in which this was written, but society in general: how many of us feel truly alive? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cu\u003e\n \u003cb\u003eOriginal Review\u003c/b\u003e\n\u003c/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- 2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLet’s have a party Victor. Let’s get together and celebrate all things Gothic, and dark, and wonderful. Let’s have it in an attic in an old house in the middle of a thunderstorm, and then afterwards let’s go to the graveyard with our shovels and our body bags. Sounds good doesn’t it Victor? We could then create our own doppelgängers from the corpses of criminals and geniuses. Then we can abandon our marvellous creation to fend for itself with his childlike innocence, and then wonder why it goes so horribly wrong and blows up in our faces. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAhh..Victor you silly, brilliant, man. On second thought we probably shouldn’t have that party. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBecause if we did it would end in blood\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://images.gr-assets.com/photos/1433339456p8/1190923.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" alt=\"description\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYes, lots of blood: the blood of everyone you love, the blood of all your family Victor. You blame the monster, but you are his creator. You should have taught him the ways of the world and guided his first steps. The things you two could have accomplished together. So I ask you this Victor, who is the real monster? Is it the creature that has gone on a murderous rampage or it you? You are the man who played at god and was horrified at the consequence. You judged your creation by his physical appearance, which was more a reflection of your vain soul. Ahh..Victor you silly, brilliant, man. Surely you don’t wonder why the monster revenged himself upon you?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel...”\u003c/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndeed, the real monster of this novel is Victor Frankenstein, and not his monstrous creation. The creature is a monster on the outside but Victor is on the inside, which is a form much worse. By abandoning the creature he has taught him to become what his appearance is. The first human experience he receives is rejection based upon his physicality. His own creator recoils in disgust from him. He cannot be blamed for his actions if all he has been taught is negative emotion, he will only respond in one way. He is innocent and childlike but also a savage brute. These are two things that should never be put together. Woe to Victor Frankenstein’s family. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied in the one, I will indulge the other.”\u003c/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://images.gr-assets.com/photos/1433339474p8/1190924.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" alt=\"description\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary Shelley raises questions of the danger of knowledge, and shows a probable consequence of trying to play god; the novel portrays nineteen century fears for the rising field of science and knowledge and questions how far it could go. Indeed, in this case Victor takes on the role of a God by creating new life. She also shows us what can happen to a man if he so driven by this thirst for knowledge and how it will ultimately lead to a fall. Victor reminds me somewhat of Doctor Faustus (\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18525.Doctor_Faustus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eThe Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus\u003c/a\u003e) in this regard. Faustus is a man who sold his soul to Lucifer for unlimited knowledge in the form of arcane magic. Victor, like Faustus, has stopped at nothing to gain his goal, but in the end is ultimately dissatisfied with the result. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuffice to say, I simply adore this book as you may have gathered from my ramblings. I think this, alongside Dracula, are amongst the strongest representations of Gothic literature. Furthermore, I have a real soft spot for epistolary means of storytelling. I’m not sure why, perhaps it’s the stronger sense of intimacy you fell with the characters as you see their words on the page rather than an impartial narrators. You see inside their heads more and understand their motifs and feelings. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy favourite quote:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"This was then the reward of my benevolence! I had saved a human being from destruction, and as a recompense I now writhed under the miserable pain of a wound which shattered the flesh and bone. The feelings of kindness and gentleness which I had entertained but a few moments before gave place to hellish rage and gnashing of teeth. Inflamed by pain, I vowed eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind.\u003c/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eListen to the passion, to the intellect and witness such a wasted opportunity. Victor, you’re a silly, silly, man.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e___________________________________\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou can connect with me on social media via \u003ca href=\"https://linktr.ee/sean.ultra_vegan1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eMy Linktree\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e__________________________________","rating":5,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/27788046?shelf=read"},"taggings":[{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"classics","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/27788046?shelf=classics"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"sci-fi","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/27788046?shelf=sci-fi"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"darkness-horror-gothic","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/27788046?shelf=darkness-horror-gothic"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"5-star-reads","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/27788046?shelf=5-star-reads"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"shelley-s","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/27788046?shelf=shelley-s"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"romantic-movement","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/27788046?shelf=romantic-movement"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"favourites","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/27788046?shelf=favourites"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"veganism-and-vegetarianism","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/27788046?shelf=veganism-and-vegetarianism"}}],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/826613140"},"likeCount":1013,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":51},"User:1413439":{"id":1413439,"__typename":"User","legacyId":1413439,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1311616811i/1413439._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":false,"textReviewsCount":1516,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"Stephen","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1413439-stephen","contributor":null,"followersCount":11958},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.jE-3gUq3vaKQ08b9ojMqyA":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.jE-3gUq3vaKQ08b9ojMqyA","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:1413439"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1522073290872,"createdAt":1234813961000,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1326466135000,"text":"My \u003cb\u003eapologies\u003c/b\u003e, but this \u003cb\u003ereview\u003c/b\u003e is going to be a bit \u003cb\u003efrantic\u003c/b\u003e due to my \u003cb\u003ebrain\u003c/b\u003e being so \u003cb\u003eoxygen-starved\u003c/b\u003e by the novel’s \u003cb\u003ebreath-stealing\u003c/b\u003e gorgeousness that I'm feeling a bit light-headed. So please forgive the random thoughts.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eFirst\u003c/u\u003e:\u003c/b\u003e Mary Shelley…I love you!!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eSecond\u003c/u\u003e:\u003c/b\u003e Dear Hollywood - you lying \u003cb\u003edung pile\u003c/b\u003e of literature-savaging, no talent hacks…you got this all wrong. Please learn to read and get yourself a copy of the source material before you \u003cb\u003eFUBAR\u003c/b\u003e it again. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eThird\u003c/u\u003e:\u003c/b\u003e My heart shattered for the “monster” and I haven’t felt this strong a desire to “hug it out, bitch” since reading \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/book/show/676737.Grendel\" title=\"Grendel by John Gardner\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eGrendel\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/book/show/7948230.Crooked_Letter__Crooked_Letter\" title=\"Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eCrooked Letter, Crooked Letter\u003c/a\u003e. The “wretch” is so well drawn and powerfully portrayed that he form the emotional ligament for the entire story. He is among the finest creations the written form has to offer. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eFourth\u003c/u\u003e: \u003c/b\u003e As surprised as I am to be saying this, this novel has ousted \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/book/show/17245.Dracula\" title=\"Dracula by Bram Stoker\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eDracula\u003c/a\u003e as my all time favorite of the classic horror stories…sorry Bram, but the good/evil, sad, desperate loneliness of the orphaned monster trying to find a purpose and to define himself in the world trumps The Count. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eFive\u003c/u\u003e:\u003c/b\u003e \u003cblockquote\u003e\n \u003ci\u003eNo one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs. Pursuing these reflections, I thought that if I could bestow animation upon lifeless matter, I might in process of time (although I now found it impossible) renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption.\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e As gorgeous as the prose is, I thought it a crime not to include at least one quote. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eSix\u003c/u\u003e:\u003c/b\u003e The “non-explanation” for the process that Victor uses to create the monster is thing of genius. No other approach could have possibly conveyed the majesty and significance of the achievement, because we would have known it was bullshit. Shelley did it perfectly…which leads me nicely into…\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eSeven\u003c/u\u003e:\u003c/b\u003e The corny, slapdash lightning scene is entirely a work of Hollywood? There’s …NO…lightning…scene? Are you kidding me? Even Kenneth Branagh’s supposedly “true” adaptation had electric eels providing power to the “it’s alive” process. All of it bunk. I’ll say it again, Hollywood is a bunch of useless tools. . LIARS!!!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eEight\u003c/u\u003e: \u003c/b\u003e Speaking of tools, Victor Frankenstein is a giant one. As far as I am concerned, he is clearly the villain of the piece. However, what I found so squee-inducingly magical about Shelly’s writing was my degree of vacillation when it came to Victor’s character. I liked and even admired Victor in the beginning of the story and found his personal journey compelling. He was a genius driven by his desire to unlock the secrets of the universe and had that manic, “mad scientist” focus necessary to the accomplishment of such a lofty goal. However, once the “birth” of the monster came, I found myself waffling back and forth throughout the rest of the story. Ironically, his moment of success and his reaction to life he had conjured was when he began to lose his humanity in my eyes. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eHis treatment of the monster was abhorrent. Despite this, Shelley was able to get me to see over my disgust and appreciate Frankenstein’s position and understand why he was so unwilling to continence the existence of “the wretch.” Not enough for me to forgive his lack of compassion, but enough for me to see him as a tragic figure. Huge propers for Shelley as that is excellent writing. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eNine\u003c/u\u003e:\u003c/b\u003e I would place the monster among the finest literary creations of all time. This singular manifestation of humanity’s scientific brilliance and callous indifference to the consequences thereof is masterfully done. Frankenstein’s “wretch” became the prototype of the literary outcast and every “misunderstood” creature since has been offspring from his loins. His character profile is phenomenal, and just as Victor’s actions garner sporadic moments of understanding for his cruel treatment of the monster, so the monster’s wanton acts of vile cruelty severely test our compassion for him. Tested, bent and stretched, but, for me at least, never broken. I understood his pain…I understood his anger…I understood. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eTen\u003c/u\u003e:\u003c/b\u003e No spoilers here, but the final resolution of the relationship between Victor and the child of his genius was…stellar. Everything was reconciled and nothing was resolved. The final reckoning occurs and it is both momentous and useless. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eEleven\u003c/u\u003e:\u003c/b\u003e I expected the prose to be good but, having never read Shelley before, I was still surprised by how exceptional and ear-pleasing it was. Her writing really resonated with me and I loved her ability to weave emotion, plot momentum and a high literary quotient seamlessly together. Good, good stuff. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eTwelve\u003c/u\u003e:\u003c/b\u003e The novel is structured as an \u003cb\u003eepistolary nesting doll\u003c/b\u003e using the frame story of \u003cb\u003eCaptain Walton\u003c/b\u003e corresponding with his sister about his expedition to the North Pole. While at the top of the world, Walton finds Victor Frankenstein stranded. This sets up the dovetail into Walton relaying Victor’s story which takes up the bulk of the novel and includes within it the incredibly poignant story of the “monster” in the creature’s own words. It is superbly executed and I thought the framing device was very effective. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eThirteen\u003c/u\u003e:\u003c/b\u003e Despite my trashing of the movie versions earlier, there was one scene that I thought was handled far better on screen than in this story. Kenneth Branagh’s portrayal of \u003cinput type=\"checkbox\" class=\"spoiler__control\" aria-label=\"The following text has been marked spoiler. Toggle checkbox to reveal or hide.\" onchange=\"this.labels[0].setAttribute('aria-hidden', !this.checked);\" id=\"17da71f7-3273-49d1-94c1-8f4f1b19c872\" /\u003e\u003clabel aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"spoiler\" for=\"17da71f7-3273-49d1-94c1-8f4f1b19c872\"\u003e the murder of Elizabeth by the monster\u003c/label\u003e was far more chilling than Shelley’s more subdued recounting. I actually anticipated this segment being far more shocking and I was a tad let down as a result. This is probably my only gripe about the book. \u003cbr /\u003e \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eFourteen\u003c/u\u003e:\u003c/b\u003e On my list of all time favorite novels. The writing, the story, the characters, the emotion, the imagery, the power…all off the charts. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e6.0 stars. HIGHEST POSSIBLE RECOMMENDATION!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eP.S.(or \u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eFifteen\u003c/u\u003e:\u003c/b\u003e) I listened to the audio version of this read by Simon Vance and his performance was extraordinary, especially his portrayal of the “monster.” Definitely check it out if you are a consumer of audio books. \u003cbr /\u003e","rating":5,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1413439?shelf=read"},"taggings":[{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"classics","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1413439?shelf=classics"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"ebooks","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1413439?shelf=ebooks"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"easton-press","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1413439?shelf=easton-press"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"audiobook","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1413439?shelf=audiobook"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"horror-classic","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1413439?shelf=horror-classic"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"1800s","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1413439?shelf=1800s"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"mad-scientists","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1413439?shelf=mad-scientists"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"classics-european","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1413439?shelf=classics-european"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"monsters","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1413439?shelf=monsters"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"gothic","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1413439?shelf=gothic"}}],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46535372"},"likeCount":1916,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":10},"User:1720620":{"id":1720620,"__typename":"User","legacyId":1720620,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1415374035i/1720620._UX200_CR0,78,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":false,"textReviewsCount":4440,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"Anne","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1720620-anne","contributor":null,"followersCount":70306},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.swVIQXrxWxTxNGHvI5t2kQ":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.swVIQXrxWxTxNGHvI5t2kQ","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:1720620"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1713527337178,"createdAt":1394578360000,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1713527336632,"text":"So.\u003cbr\u003eI finished it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWarning:\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you are a fan of classic literature \u003ci\u003eand/or\u003c/i\u003e are utterly devoid of a sense of humor this review may not be for you.\u003cbr\u003eAlso:\u003cbr\u003eYes, I realize that I'm a moron with zero literary credibility. So, stop reading right now if the sound of an idiot whistling out of their asshole bothers you. Sure, you can comment below and tell me how stupid I am, but it probably won't make me a better person. Or will it...?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://images.gr-assets.com/hostedimages/1477093601ra/20916656.gif\" width=\"400\" height=\"200\" alt=\"description\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI've always wondered what the \u003ci\u003ereal\u003c/i\u003e Frankenstein story was like...and now I know.\u003cbr\u003eSadly, sometimes the fantasy is better than the reality.\u003cbr\u003eAnd the \u003ci\u003ereality\u003c/i\u003e is, this book is a big steaming pile of poo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's an old-timey horror story, right?\u003cbr\u003eNot so much.\u003cbr\u003eI mean, I wasn't expecting it to actually be scary, but I thought it might be slightly creepy. Unfortunately, the only \u003ci\u003ehorror\u003c/i\u003e in the story centered around me having to keep turning the pages.\u003cbr\u003eUnless...? \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeware mortal! You will DIE of boredom!\u003c/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTruly frightening.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://images.gr-assets.com/hostedimages/1477093601ra/20916657.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" alt=\"description\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt starts like this:\u003cbr\u003eAn upper-crust guy sails off to the Arctic to \u003ci\u003emake discoveries\u003c/i\u003e, and to pass the time he writes to his sister. Supposedly, he's been sailing around on whaling ships for several years. And he's been proven an invaluable resource by other captains. \u003cbr\u003eSo I'm assuming he's a pretty crusty ol' sailor at this point.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePay attention, because this is where Shelly proves that she knows \u003cb\u003enothing\u003c/b\u003e about men...\u003c/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo this guy goes on and on in these letters to his sister about how he wishes on every star that he could find a best friend at sea. After a few (\u003ci\u003etoo many\u003c/i\u003e) letters, they pull a half-frozen Frankensicle out of the water. \u003cbr\u003eAaaaand here's what our salty sea dog has to say about the waterlogged mad scientist...\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Blah, blah, blah...his full-toned voice swells in my ears; his lustrous eyes dwell on me with all their melancholy sweetness...blah, blah, blah...\"\u003c/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eLustrous eyes?! No (\u003ci\u003estraight\u003c/i\u003e) sailor ever, in the history of the world, EVER referred to another dude's eyes as \u003ci\u003elustrous\u003c/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003eEver. \u003cbr\u003eAnd I know what you're thinking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWell, Anne, maybe this character was gay. Didn't think about that, did you?!\u003c/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eActually, yes. Yes, I did. \u003cbr\u003eThe only problem with that theory is that \u003ci\u003eNONE\u003c/i\u003e of the male characters in this book sounded remotely \u003ci\u003emale\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eLadies, do you remember that time in your life (\u003ci\u003eprobably around middle or high school\u003c/i\u003e), when you thought that guys \u003ci\u003eactually\u003c/i\u003e had the same sort of thought waves running through their heads that we do? You know, before you realized that they really \u003ci\u003edon't \u003c/i\u003e care about...well, all of the things that we do? You thought that while they were laughing at the booger their idiot friend just flicked across the room, something \u003ci\u003edeeper\u003c/i\u003e was stirring in their mind. It just had to be!\u003cbr\u003eI'm not sure when it happens, but at some point, every woman finally realizes the (\u003ci\u003efairly obvious\u003c/i\u003e) truth.\u003cbr\u003eMen aren't women.\u003cbr\u003eThat booger was the funniest thing ever, and \u003ci\u003enothing\u003c/i\u003e was stirring around in them other than maybe some gas.\u003cbr\u003eAnd that's ok.\u003cbr\u003eFart-lighting and long distance loogie hawking contests aside, they can be pretty darn cool. \u003cbr\u003eBut this author was too young to realize that.\u003cbr\u003eMy personal opinion is that Mary was probably fairly sheltered and was used to running around with a bunch of artsy-fartsy dudes. Much like today, I would imagine these junior emos were probably blowing poetic smoke up her young ass in the high hopes of getting into her pants.\u003cbr\u003eAlthough it's possible I'm totally misreading the situation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://images.gr-assets.com/hostedimages/1477093897ra/20916663.gif\" width=\"400\" height=\"200\" alt=\"description\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnyway, Frank tells his story, and Sea Dog writes it all down for his sister.\u003cbr\u003eIn excruciating detail.\u003cbr\u003eRivers, flowers, rocks, mountain tops...agonizingly cataloged. And the weather? God forbid a breeze blows through the story without \u003ci\u003eat least\u003c/i\u003e a paragraph devoted to the way it felt on his skin or affected his mood!\u003cbr\u003eAnd speaking of Frankenstein's \u003ci\u003emood\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eI don't think I've ever had the pleasure of reading about a character this spineless before. He didn't \u003ci\u003etalk\u003c/i\u003e so much as he \u003ci\u003ewhined\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eAnd the swooning!\u003cbr\u003eHe was like one of those freaking fainting goats!\u003cbr\u003eI can't even count how many times he blacked out and fell over. Of course, then he would get feverish and need \"a period of convalescence\" to recover.\u003cbr\u003eAgain, every episode was recounted with incredible attention to detail.\u003cbr\u003eI'm thrilled that I never had to miss a moment of his sweaty brow getting daubed with water! \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRandomly Inserted Fun Fact:\u003c/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe \u003ci\u003emonster\u003c/i\u003e quoted Milton in Paradise Lost.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShockingly, I only know this because it was in the appendix, and not because I have any real-life experience with reading that one.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://images.gr-assets.com/hostedimages/1463580324ra/19134433.gif\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" alt=\"description\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWas this the most painfully unnecessary book I've read this year?\u003cbr\u003eYes.\u003cbr\u003eIs there a deeper moral to this story?\u003cbr\u003eYes.\u003cbr\u003eSome would say, that the monster is a product of a society that refuses to accept someone who is different. Or maybe that Victor Frankenstein was the real monster for not realizing that he had a duty to \u003ci\u003eparent\u003c/i\u003e and care for his creation? Perhaps it is meant to point out our obsession with perfection, and our willingness to disregard people who don't meet the standards of beauty as non-human?\u003cbr\u003eSome might say any of those things.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\n \u003ci\u003eI,\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003c/b\u003e however, learned a far different lesson from Frankenstein.\u003cbr\u003eAnd it's this...\u003cbr\u003eTrust no one.\u003cbr\u003eNot even someone who (\u003ci\u003ejust an example\u003c/i\u003e) has been your \u003cb\u003eBest Friend\u003c/b\u003e for \u003cb\u003edecades\u003c/b\u003e!\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLet's read a classic, Anne. It'll be fun, Anne. We can call each other with updates, Anne. It'll be just like a book club, Anne. Tee-hee!\u003c/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLiar, liar! Pants on fire!\u003cbr\u003eI read this whole God-awful book, and you quit after 10 pages! \u003cbr\u003eI'm telling your mom!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnyway.\u003cbr\u003eHere's the quote that sums up my experience with \u003cb\u003eFrankenstein\u003c/b\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Blah, blah, blah...in all the misery I imagined and dreaded, I did not conceive the hundredth part of the anguish I was destined to endure.\"\u003c/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://images.gr-assets.com/hostedimages/1477093897ra/20916664.gif\" width=\"400\" height=\"230\" alt=\"description\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e","rating":1,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1720620?shelf=read"},"taggings":[{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"horror","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1720620?shelf=horror"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"classics","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1720620?shelf=classics"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"read-with-jillybean","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1720620?shelf=read-with-jillybean"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"read-in-2014","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1720620?shelf=read-in-2014"}}],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/878856994"},"likeCount":2192,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":60},"User:29005117":{"id":29005117,"__typename":"User","legacyId":29005117,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1709366504i/29005117._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":false,"textReviewsCount":826,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"Federico DN","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/29005117-federico-dn","contributor":null,"followersCount":2952},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.d4EQB74VDLhRyT1OPgvJhA":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.d4EQB74VDLhRyT1OPgvJhA","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:29005117"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1725208881004,"createdAt":1393250401000,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1679821360297,"text":"\u003cb\u003e Some monsters are not born, they are created by the cruelty around them. \u003c/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVictor Frankenstein is a scientist and alchemist obsessed with creating life. Neglecting his betrothed, friends and even himself, he devotes all energy and efforts to the construction of his Creation, an unspeakable thing formed of human parts scavenged from cemeteries and other undesirable places, which he intends to bring back to life. His dream turning into a nightmare when he actually succeeds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe terrible and unfortunate story of Dr. Frankenstein and his Creation. Two immortal characters that transcended literature. Dr. Frankenstein was more than a scientist; and his Creation more than a monster. Both characters immersed in an unwinnable fight against adversity and misery, fighting each other, and against themselves. Each one with the disadvantages proper of their nature. Each one a person, and a monster. Both tragically linked because of one defining moment of pain; \u003cinput type=\"checkbox\" class=\"spoiler__control\" aria-label=\"The following text has been marked spoiler. Toggle checkbox to reveal or hide.\" onchange=\"this.labels[0].setAttribute('aria-hidden', !this.checked);\" id=\"ed4b5b4e-152b-4dea-8bcd-442f00669852\" /\u003e\u003clabel aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"spoiler\" for=\"ed4b5b4e-152b-4dea-8bcd-442f00669852\"\u003e the pain of losing love, and the pain of never knowing it. \u003c/label\u003e A story that makes you think, and suffer, for both of them. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA classical masterpiece that spawned countless of adaptations and retellings; in books, films, plays, and whatnot. Fast paced, short and easy to read. A must read in life. Highly Recommendable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’s public domain, you can find it \u003ca href=\"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/84\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eHERE.\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*** Frankenstein (1994) is an acceptable adaptation at best, even with a stellar cast including stars like Branagh, De Niro and Bonham Carter. All the main ingredients of a good movie were present, and the plot faithful enough to the book. Still, overall it felt just average, barely watchable and excessively over the top for no good reason. Interesting to complement the reading, but not really recommendable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStill remaining, the movie (1931)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://images.gr-assets.com/hostedimages/1678590637ra/34030575.gif\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-----------------------------------------------\u003cbr\u003e\u003cu\u003e\n \u003cb\u003ePERSONAL NOTE\u003c/b\u003e\n\u003c/u\u003e: \u003cbr\u003e[1818] [260p] [Classics] [Highly Recommendable] \u003cbr\u003e-----------------------------------------------\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e Algunos monstruos no nacen, son creados por la crueldad a su alrededor. \u003c/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVictor Frankenstein es un científico y alquimista obsesionado con crear vida. Descuidando a su prometida, amigos e incluso a sí mismo, dedica toda su energía y esfuerzos a la construcción de su Creación, una innombrable cosa formada de partes humanas recuperadas de cementerios y otros indeseables lugares, a la cual intenta hacer volver a la vida. Su sueño convirtiéndose en pesadilla cuando finalmente lo logra.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLa terrible e infortunada historia del Dr. Frankenstein y su Creación. Dos personajes inmortales que transcendieron la literatura. El Dr. Frankenstein era más que un científico; y su Creación más que un monstruo. Ambos personajes sumidos en una pelea imposible contra la adversidad y la desdicha, luchando uno contra otro, y contra sí mismos. Cada uno con las desventajas propias de su naturaleza. Cada uno una persona, y un monstruo. Ambos trágicamente vinculados por un momento definido en el dolor; \u003cinput type=\"checkbox\" class=\"spoiler__control\" aria-label=\"The following text has been marked spoiler. Toggle checkbox to reveal or hide.\" onchange=\"this.labels[0].setAttribute('aria-hidden', !this.checked);\" id=\"22fe8404-dcb5-4e25-b9a0-1d5415011b1d\" /\u003e\u003clabel aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"spoiler\" for=\"22fe8404-dcb5-4e25-b9a0-1d5415011b1d\"\u003e el dolor de perder el amor, y el dolor de nunca haberlo conocido. \u003c/label\u003e Una historia que da para pensar, y sufrir, por ambos dos. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUna obra maestra clásica que engendró incontables adaptaciones y recreaciones; en libros, películas, teatro, y que no. De ritmo rápido, corta y fácil de leer. Una lectura obligada de la vida. Altamente Recomendable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEs dominio público, lo pueden encontrar \u003ca href=\"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/84\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eACA.\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*** Frankenstein (1994) es una aceptable adaptación cuando mucho, incluso con un elenco estelar incluyendo estrellas como Branagh, De Niro y Bonham Carter. Todos los ingredientes de una buena película estuvieron presente, y la trama lo suficientemente fiel al libro. Sin embargo, en conjunto se sintió sólo promedio, apenas veíble y excesivamente exagerada sin buena justificación. Interesante para complementar la lectura, pero no exactamente recomendable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQueda pendiente, la película (1931)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://images.gr-assets.com/hostedimages/1678590637ra/34030576.gif\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-----------------------------------------------\u003cbr\u003e\u003cu\u003e\n \u003cb\u003eNOTA PERSONAL\u003c/b\u003e\n\u003c/u\u003e: \u003cbr\u003e[1818] [260p] [Clásicos] [Altamente Recomendable] \u003cbr\u003e-----------------------------------------------\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e\u003c/[\"br\"]\u003e","rating":4,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/29005117?shelf=read"},"taggings":[{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"classics","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/29005117?shelf=classics"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"horror","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/29005117?shelf=horror"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"almost-fav","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/29005117?shelf=almost-fav"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"free-domain","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/29005117?shelf=free-domain"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"adapted","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/29005117?shelf=adapted"}}],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/863873757"},"likeCount":627,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":108},"User:4622890":{"id":4622890,"__typename":"User","legacyId":4622890,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1705854088i/4622890._UX200_CR0,5,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":false,"textReviewsCount":2100,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"Emily May","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/4622890-emily-may","contributor":null,"followersCount":314562},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.VUwRFkZRcnNthEEc_AKVSA":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.VUwRFkZRcnNthEEc_AKVSA","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:4622890"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1550969450157,"createdAt":1291585427000,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1548572836283,"text":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e“I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e-From the 1994 movie\u003c/blockquote\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThe worst thing about this novel is how distorted it has become by constant movie adaptations and misinformed ideas about the nature of Frankenstein and his \"monster\". For years, like many others, I thought Frankenstein was the name of that slightly green dude with the bolts in his neck. Nuh-uh.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eDid \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c/i\u003e scare me? Did it have me staying awake and sleeping with the light on, jumping at every slight creak in the house? Was I terrified of the monster and technology and the dangers of playing God? \u003cb\u003eNo.\u003c/b\u003e Because the beauty of this story is that it isn't the one so many people think it is. Which is almost my favourite thing about it. This book is not a Halloween kind of story with Halloween kind of monsters. \u003cb\u003eThis story is heartbreakingly sad.\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n \u003cb\u003e\n \u003ci\u003e“...once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding.”\u003c/i\u003e\n \u003c/b\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThe book offers many interesting avenues of philosophical exploration if one wishes to ponder such things. For example, allusions to religion and Genesis, possible criticisms of using science to \"play God\", and the relationship between creator and creation. All of these things interest me, yes, but it is the painfully human part of this book that has always so deeply affected me. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBecause the sad thing, the really sad thing, is that pretty much everyone has heard of Frankenstein's monster... but so many don't know how \u003ci\u003ehuman\u003c/i\u003e the character is. Created as a scientific experiment by an overly ambitious man, he comes into a frightening and hostile world that immediately rejects him on sight. Even the man who made him cannot look upon his creation without feeling horror. It's that same thing that gets me in books every time: \u003cb\u003ethings could have been so different\u003c/b\u003e. If people had just been a little less judgmental, a little less scared, and a little more understanding. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThis being, created from different parts of corpses, seeks love and finds hatred, so he instead decides to embrace it. Fuelled by his own rage at the unfairness of the world, he gradually turns towards evil. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eHe belongs in my own little mental category with the likes of Heathcliff and Erik (aka The Phantom of the Opera). Scared, angry villains who were made so by their own unfortunate circumstances. \u003cb\u003eThe kind of characters you simultaneously hate and love, but most of all hope they find some kind of peace.\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSo call it science-fiction, if you want. Call it horror, if you must. 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That's right. Zero, zip. nada.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIt's been almost 30 years since I've detested a book this much. I didn't think anything could be worse then Kafka's \u003ci\u003eThe Metamorphosis\u003c/i\u003e. Seems I'm never too old to be wrong. This time, I don't have the excuse that I was forced to read this for high school lit. class. Oh no, this time I read this of my own volition and for fun. Yeah, fun. Kinda like sticking bamboo shoots between my fingernails type of fun. Watching paint dry fun. Going to an Air Supply concert fun.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOK, to be fair, I need to tell you what I liked about this....\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWell, Mary Shelley was a teen when she wrote this. Color me impressed. At 19 I was just looking for my next college boyfriend, not penning the great English classic. Kudos to Mary for that.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOtherwise, I can't think of anything to admire in this book, apart from the fact that it's the only book in my reading history where I actually noted EVERY SINGLE PAGE NUMBER and mentally counted down the time I'd be finished.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWhy did I persist, you may ask? Well, at the point where the pain became mind numbing, I decided to channel my inner John McCain and just survive the torture. Figured it would make me a better, stronger reader. Might even make me enjoy a re-read of \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/book/show/1162543.Breaking_Dawn__Twilight___4_\" title=\"Breaking Dawn (Twilight, #4) by Stephenie Meyer\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eBreaking Dawn\u003c/a\u003e....(well, no it wouldn't, but you get the idea).\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c/i\u003e is a classic alright. A classic melodrama. Complete with a wimpy, vaporish, trembling prima donna main character and a pseudo monster whose only sin is being uglier then Bernie Madoff in cell block D. After the upteenth tremble/jerk/gasp/faint/start from our mad scientist Victor Frankenstein, I could only sign in relief that he wasn't a Rabbi about to perform a bris circumcism - oy vey!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWere we supposed to be outraged at the monster's killing spree? By the books end, I was merely miffed that the creature murdered the wrong Frankenstein sibling. He would have saved himself a good deal of traveling (and saved me a good deal of suffering) had he snuffed out his \u003ci\u003emaker\u003c/i\u003e before he could high-tail it out of the birthing room.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI'm sure that the fans of this book will say that I didn't understand the deeper, symbolic nuances of this book, and I'm sure that they are right. At this point in my life, all I know is what I like and don't like in a book, and as far as I'm concerned, this book is unadulterated, mind-numbing crap. But that's just me. Your mileage will vary (as I sincerely hope it does). As for my own mileage, it can best be compared to driving a Ford Pinto in the Indy 500...\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003eEDIT\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eDue to the efforts of a few Kool-ade drinking trolls who have gotten their big girl/big boy panties in a wad over an almost 200 year old book and can't comment nicely on my review, I am suspending all future comments.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eDon't like it? Blame the navel grazing trolls for not accepting the concept of a \u003cb\u003ePERSONAL OPINION\u003c/b\u003e.","rating":0,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/2411388?shelf=read"},"taggings":[{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"classics","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/2411388?shelf=classics"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"horror","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/2411388?shelf=horror"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"too-awful-for-words","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/2411388?shelf=too-awful-for-words"}}],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73625443"},"likeCount":1175,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":2},"User:32879029":{"id":32879029,"__typename":"User","legacyId":32879029,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1520568130i/32879029._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":false,"textReviewsCount":2300,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"emma","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/32879029-emma","contributor":null,"followersCount":76718},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.908cF2yO65u2_iQuYsIuZw":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.908cF2yO65u2_iQuYsIuZw","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:32879029"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1721931116785,"createdAt":1578064714644,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1721931116785,"text":"Don’t get why everyone spends so much time talking about “the theme of science versus nature” and how this is “the world’s first science fiction novel” when clearly this is the world’s pre-eminent text on the subject of the dire consequences of procrastination.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBut whatever.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThis book rules.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eFirst off, it’s very funny to imagine old-timey 1800s people being scared by this. It’s in the same vein as thinking of that urban legend about the people who watched the first movie screaming when the train races toward them. “AAAAAH! I AM IN A THEATER, BUT I’M ABOUT TO GET HIT BY A TRAIN!!! HERE IT COMES! TELL MY WIFE I LOVE HER!”\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI highly recommend reading it through that lens. Just thinking about that original audience who thought this was a horror. “Oh, my stars! A creature of most unholy origin! I daren’t think of it!” Idiots.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAgain, I digress.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThis is so beautifully written. It really forces you to slow down and take the story in, just so you don’t miss a gorgeous line - which in turn makes you appreciate how many great and beautifully executed themes there are at play.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eCount me impressed.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBut again, I’m mostly just thinkin’ bout how #relatable Frankenstein is.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnd also the fact that I can Finally I can be one of those assholes who’s like “Frankenstein is the SCIENTIST, not the monster!!!!”\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI’m living the dream.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBottom line: This is nonstop fun and everyone should have (read: read) it.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e-------------\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ci\u003ecurrently-reading updates\u003c/i\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003ecan already relate to victor frankenstein as i, too, create massive problems and then avoid dealing with them until the repercussions threaten to destroy my life and even then am kinda like \"ok but do i have to\"","rating":4,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/32879029?shelf=read"},"taggings":[{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"owned","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/32879029?shelf=owned"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"non-ya","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/32879029?shelf=non-ya"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"classics","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/32879029?shelf=classics"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"sci-fi","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/32879029?shelf=sci-fi"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"mystery-thriller-horror-etc","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/32879029?shelf=mystery-thriller-horror-etc"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"4-stars","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/32879029?shelf=4-stars"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"recommend","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/32879029?shelf=recommend"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"reviewed","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/32879029?shelf=reviewed"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"beautifully-written","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/32879029?shelf=beautifully-written"}}],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2285938245"},"likeCount":1425,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":59},"User:42130592":{"id":42130592,"__typename":"User","legacyId":42130592,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1704291340i/42130592._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":false,"textReviewsCount":357,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"chai (thelibrairie on tiktok!) ♡","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/42130592-chai-thelibrairie-on-tiktok","contributor":null,"followersCount":167353},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.KFbswjLZRwdE-h-48Ha1Ig":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.KFbswjLZRwdE-h-48Ha1Ig","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:42130592"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1723738199727,"createdAt":1659024641817,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1723738199727,"text":"80% of this book is just Victor Frankenstein falling into months-long fevers at the slightest inconvenience and also being a colossal piece of shit. The Creature, on the other hand, is the poster-monster for anyone who’s ever felt Othered and I simply LOVE HIM","rating":5,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/42130592?shelf=read"},"taggings":[{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"classic-lit","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/42130592?shelf=classic-lit"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"fiction","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/42130592?shelf=fiction"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"read-in-2022","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/42130592?shelf=read-in-2022"}}],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4879210283"},"likeCount":1651,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":82},"User:100759205":{"id":100759205,"__typename":"User","legacyId":100759205,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1712152205i/100759205._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":false,"textReviewsCount":275,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"Kat","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/100759205-kat","contributor":null,"followersCount":80338},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.e6Ju1kS2XFRfQxGC2aZAuA":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.e6Ju1kS2XFRfQxGC2aZAuA","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:100759205"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1661420924598,"createdAt":1606846005290,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1657588505972,"text":"Victor Frankenstein Chill The Fuck Out Challenge","rating":3,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/100759205?shelf=read"},"taggings":[],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3668986031"},"likeCount":1464,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":9},"Contributor:kca://author/amzn1.gr.author.v1.msgio6b9mUlKluIgAWn9iA":{"id":"kca://author/amzn1.gr.author.v1.msgio6b9mUlKluIgAWn9iA","__typename":"Contributor","works":{"__typename":"ContributorWorksConnection","totalCount":1}},"User:27098959":{"id":27098959,"__typename":"User","legacyId":27098959,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1708018944i/27098959._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":true,"textReviewsCount":395,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"Leonard Gaya","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/27098959-leonard-gaya","contributor":{"__ref":"Contributor:kca://author/amzn1.gr.author.v1.msgio6b9mUlKluIgAWn9iA"},"followersCount":1089},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.Z1AWmes2p_PTn7WcST9Gpg":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.Z1AWmes2p_PTn7WcST9Gpg","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:27098959"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1730985217572,"createdAt":1545146522708,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1624384969739,"text":"Mary Wollstonecraft, a teenager, was spending a vacation in Switzerland with her fiancé, \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/author/show/45882.Percy_Bysshe_Shelley\" title=\"Percy Bysshe Shelley\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ePercy Shelley\u003c/a\u003e, their mutual friend, \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/author/show/44407.Lord_Byron\" title=\"Lord Byron\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eLord Byron\u003c/a\u003e, and a few other people. Was the weather gloomy that summer of 1816? Were the companions bored to death? One evening, they challenged each other into writing the scariest ghost story they could come up with. No one remembers what the fellows wrote on that occasion. Except for the young woman’s literary creature and the misfortunes of Victor Frankenstein.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince then, what was meant as an entertaining story, rose to the dimension of a myth. So much so that the original novel itself has been covered up by layer upon layer of external imagery, which has very little to do with it — in particular, the heavily made-up face of Boris Karloff in the 1931 unfaithful film adaptation of this book. Nowadays, there are all sorts of adaptations (e.g. Kenneth Branagh’s movie, with De Niro, more on that below), parodies (Mel Brook’s \u003ci\u003eYoung Frankenstein\u003c/i\u003e), and probably even spooky porn versions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHowever, Mary Shelley’s novel is not so much about ghosts or monsters, as it is a meditation on the Biblical theme of Creation and Fall. Naturally, the idea of creating a living being — using some human technique instead of natural reproduction —, comes from the 16th-century Jewish narrative of the \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/book/show/99794.The_Golem\" title=\"The Golem by Gustav Meyrink\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eGolem\u003c/a\u003e of Prague. The subtle hints and overt references to Milton’s \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/book/show/15997.Paradise_Lost\" title=\"Paradise Lost by John Milton\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eParadise Lost\u003c/a\u003e are also quite noticeable — the “daemon”, rejected from the start as an ugly duckling, learns to read with a copy of this book (?). At any rate, \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c/i\u003e is a brilliant and existential reverie on the theme of God and Satan (Frankenstein and the “daemon”) and Adam and Eve (Frankenstein and Elizabeth / the monster and the potential lady-monster).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnother striking aspect of \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c/i\u003e’s narrative is the Russian-dolls-like structure of the tales: first Captain Walton’s letters, which frame the whole novel, then Victor Frankenstein’s account and, finally, a tale within the tale, the \u003ci\u003edaemon\u003c/i\u003e’s story. This particular form is in keeping with earlier gothic novels and harks back to the \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/book/show/93101.The_Arabian_Nights\" title=\"The Arabian Nights by Anonymous\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eOne Thousand and One Nights\u003c/a\u003e, to which Mary Shelley might have had access, through Antoine Galland’s translation into French. Incidentally, Safie’s story, around the middle of the novel (another embedded tale within a tale), has some oriental undertones.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary Shelley’s book is considered one of the earliest examples of the Science Fiction genre. However, there is not much science or technology to speak of in \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c/i\u003e, apart from a few mentions of \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/author/show/121121.Paracelsus\" title=\"Paracelsus\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eParacelsus\u003c/a\u003e and a couple of other alchemists and astrologers. The minor references to electricity, magnetism and galvanism are in the spirit of the times. Still, \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/author/show/112273.Michael_Faraday\" title=\"Michael Faraday\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eMichael Faraday\u003c/a\u003e, who would soon bring significant breakthroughs in these fields, was about the same age as the precocious author of \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c/i\u003e. Still, the presence of electromagnetism is not only a reference to the myth of Prometheus and the stolen fire. If anything, it expresses a fascination with landscapes: now sunny, beautiful and pleasant; now stormy, sublime and menacing, with ghastly thunderbolts ripping the clouds apart. Mary Shelley had a couple of predecessors — \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/author/show/11525.Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge\" title=\"Samuel Taylor Coleridge\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eColeridge\u003c/a\u003e is quoted a few times in her novel —, but that sort of imagery was, by and large, a novelty at the time. It might be interesting to note that while Mary Shelley was writing \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c/i\u003e, Caspar David Friedrich was painting his famous \u003ci\u003eWanderer above the Sea of Fog\u003c/i\u003e (see below). This obsession with ominous landscapes would soon become a trope within the romantic and gothic literary tradition (cf. the often ridiculed \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/author/show/44512.Edward_Bulwer_Lytton\" title=\"Edward Bulwer-Lytton\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eBulwer-Lytton\u003c/a\u003e’s “dark and stormy night”).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c/i\u003e is also considered an early example of the modern Horror genre. However, the general impression is not exactly a feeling of terror. Rather a romantic and quite often bombastic expression of strong emotions: despair, anguish, despondency, melancholy, misery, wretchedness, affliction, etc., are words that come repeatedly under Mary Shelley’s pen. This accumulation of epithets might feel quaint and a little schmaltzy to a modern reader.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEven so, \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c/i\u003e has probably been a significant inspiration to crime mystery novels, such as Stevenson’s \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/book/show/51497.The_Strange_Case_of_Dr__Jekyll_and_Mr__Hyde_and_Other_Tales_of_Terror\" title=\"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror by Robert Louis Stevenson\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\u003c/a\u003e and later avatars of serial killers on a murderous rampage. It has probably also exerted a strong influence on scary adventure stories, such as Poe’s \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/book/show/70925.The_Narrative_of_Arthur_Gordon_Pym_of_Nantucket_and_Related_Tales\" title=\"The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales by Edgar Allan Poe\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eNarrative of Arthur Gordon Pym\u003c/a\u003e, Wells’ \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/book/show/341272.The_Island_of_Doctor_Moreau\" title=\"The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eIsland of Doctor Moreau\u003c/a\u003e, or Lovecraft’s \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/book/show/32767.At_the_Mountains_of_Madness\" title=\"At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eAt the Mountains of Madness\u003c/a\u003e. It might, nowadays, become once more a significant source of inspiration, as contemporary technology explores new forms of sentient and intelligent beings, out of GMO, silicon or some weird combination of the two.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1499445862i/23234250._SY540_.jpg\" alt=\"Caspar David Friedrich - Wanderer above the sea of fog\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley%27s_Frankenstein_(film)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eMary Shelley’s Frankenstein\u003c/a\u003e (1994), directed by Kenneth Branagh, followed Francis Ford Coppola’s box-office hit \u003ci\u003eBram Stocker’s Dracula\u003c/i\u003e (1992). The cast is imposing: De Niro, Branagh, Hulce, Bonham Carter, Holm, Cleese. The screenplay (written by Frank Darabont, who would later develop \u003ci\u003eThe Walking Dead\u003c/i\u003e TV series) is, for the most part, faithful to Mary Shelley’s novel. However, while Coppola’s \u003ci\u003eDracula\u003c/i\u003e was darkly luxurious and decadent, the style of Branagh’s \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c/i\u003e is loud and vehement, at times stomach-churning or downright silly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe biopic \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley_(film)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eMary Shelley\u003c/a\u003e (2017) by Haifaa al-Mansour, with Elle Fanning, is primarily a romance, recounting the complicated situation in which the young woman met her husband and how she got to write her masterpiece. The portrayals of Percy Shelley and Lord Byron are rather unflattering.","rating":4,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/27098959?shelf=read"},"taggings":[{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"favorites","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/27098959?shelf=favorites"}}],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/865164753"},"likeCount":564,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":57},"User:6431467":{"id":6431467,"__typename":"User","legacyId":6431467,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1713573726i/6431467._UX200_CR0,26,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":false,"textReviewsCount":1370,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"s.penkevich","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/6431467-s-penkevich","contributor":null,"followersCount":11275},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.AnuHlNo4QbtHIO_InCpMyg":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.AnuHlNo4QbtHIO_InCpMyg","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:6431467"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1732801181275,"createdAt":1659658744361,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1729093382803,"text":"‘\u003ci\u003e’Man,’ I cried, ‘how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!’\u003c/i\u003e’\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eFor over 200 years \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c/i\u003e by Mary Shelley has captured our minds and toyed with our fears, entering the canon of classic while remaining as relevant and thought provoking a metaphor as science progresses onward. It is certainly worthy of the lasting fame, being an exquisite blend of gothic horror and Romantic morality that delves into philosophical and allegorical inquiries in an endlessly engaging narrative that had me reading late into the night with a fervor to reach the end. It is a story we likely all know, and not much new to say someone hasn’t already said and better, but even still I was fascinated by every detail, with its fabulist monster story, the nested framing of two men on a quest in the arctic, the epistolary narrative, the plots of murderous vengeance and, of course, the fall from innocence with the damnation of ambition. This is also a story about how being a deadbeat dad passes along trauma that reacts negatively and is rather terrifying with its massive monster that moves fast and kills hard. This cautionary creation tale of catastrophe forces us to confront the grotesqueries of humanity grappling with life and death, and question what is truly monstrous.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eBeware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.\u003c/i\u003e’\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThis is a book where the story about its creation is just as compelling as the novel itself. Written when Mary Shelley was 19, this would arrive on the scene under high expectations to see what the young writer of notable literary heritage (her father was \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/author/show/113910.William_Godwin\" title=\"William Godwin\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eWilliam Godwin\u003c/a\u003e and her late mother the feminist writer and activist \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/author/show/1853305.Mary_Wollstonecraft\" title=\"Mary Wollstonecraft\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eMary Wollstonecraft\u003c/a\u003e) would produce. ‘\u003ci\u003eMy husband,\u003c/i\u003e’ she writes in an introduction, referring to \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/author/show/45882.Percy_Bysshe_Shelley\" title=\"Percy Bysshe Shelley\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ePercy Bysshe Shelley\u003c/a\u003e, ‘\u003ci\u003ewas from the first very anxious that I should prove myself worthy of my parentage and enroll myself on the page of fame.\u003c/i\u003e’ The novel sprang into creation supposedly during a dream (not unlike her doctor Frankenstein’s prophetic dream of creation) after \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/author/show/44407.Lord_Byron\" title=\"Lord Byron\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eLord Byron\u003c/a\u003e proposed to his friends they each should write a ghost story while they were all \u003ca href=\"https://www.history.com/news/frankenstein-true-story-mary-shelley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003estuck indoors on a retreat together\u003c/a\u003e at Lake Geneva. This same retreat would also birth the novel \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/book/show/472966.The_Vampyre\" title=\"The Vampyre by John William Polidori\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eThe Vampyre\u003c/a\u003e by \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/author/show/26932.John_William_Polidori\" title=\"John William Polidori\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eJohn William Polidori\u003c/a\u003e, who based his villain on Byron himself because \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4888409762?type=review#rating_498720393\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eLord Byron was kind of insufferable\u003c/a\u003e. And a deadbeat dad, not unlike Victor Frankenstein. The novel itself can be read as a commentary on the experience of writing it, something she teases in her introduction about the creative experience of an artist and to which she writes that ‘\u003ci\u003eI bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper.\u003c/i\u003e’ Unlike her doctor, there is a sense of care over her creation. Now, onward!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eTo examine the causes of life we must first have recourse to death.\u003c/i\u003e’\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThis book is sort of the antidote to those cliche inspirational office posters about ambition everyone had in the 90s, because here we find ambition to drip into arrogance and basically create calamity. Framed from the perspective of Cpt. Walton as he attempts to reach the North Pole—and fails—we hear the story of another man who’s blinded by his own ambition until it is too late. Doctor Victor Frankenstein’s story is a chilling fall-from-grace story, beginning with a sweet adolescence that slowly turns to the grotesque along a path of bloodied corpses of innocent people to chronicle his own loss of innocence. The spark to this is the early death of his mother, coupled with his reading of scientific books at university (self-education through books is mirrored as well through his monster), amalgamating into an idea with the best intentions to ‘\u003ci\u003erenew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption.\u003c/i\u003e’ We all know the maxim that good intentions are the paving stones to Hell, however. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eWhence, I often asked myself, did the principle of life proceed.\u003c/i\u003e’\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWhile we tend to just remember the Doctor’s last name, the full title of the book is \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus,\u003c/i\u003e and here we begin to understand why fire and light is such a frequent symbol. As Prometheus gave fire to humans and was punished for it, we see Frankenstein attempt to ‘\u003ci\u003epour a torrent of light into our dark world\u003c/i\u003e’ by conquering death and creating life (with electric shock instead of fire but close enough), something that will be his own undoing. It is only natural, drawing on ideas of the Romantics that nature is the pinnacle of good and perfection and since he ‘\u003ci\u003ecollected bones from charnel houses; and disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secrets of the human frame,\u003c/i\u003e’ to create and give life to his creation, therefore the manufactured (see also: “unnatural”) creation must also be profane and Frankenstein shall be punished. You know, the whole ‘don’t play god’ argument. The creature wrecks havoc on Frankenstein’s life as ‘\u003ci\u003ethe cold stars shone in mockery,\u003c/i\u003e’ and the barren Arctic is a sort of Hell (devoid of fire and warmth) where Victor inevitably meets his demise.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eYet Victor never views his ambitions as unnatural (him and the Captain being figuratively blinded by their ambitions functioning as another fire/light metaphor), and even at the end he says to Walton ‘\u003ci\u003eI have myself been blasted in these hopes, yet another may succeed.\u003c/i\u003e’ He sees no ethical dilemma in his manufacturing of life, his fears stem from the supposed hideousness of his creation—‘\u003ci\u003eugly…a thing such as Dante could not have conceived\u003c/i\u003e’—and then later the string of murders. ‘\u003ci\u003eA new species would bless me as its creator and source,\u003c/i\u003e’ Victor writes, propping himself up as a paternal godlike figure, ‘\u003ci\u003eno father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs,\u003c/i\u003e’ however he fails as a father to his creation by abandoning it. He does not even give the creation a name, even when hunting it after the multiple murders. This is key, as in fairy tales naming something is a way to take away it’s power (think Rumpelstiltskin being defeated by guessing his name). ‘\u003ci\u003eI think of the act of naming as diagnosis,\u003c/i\u003e’ \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/author/show/15811.Rebecca_Solnit\" title=\"Rebecca Solnit\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eRebecca Solnit\u003c/a\u003e writes in her essay \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/book/show/39688744.Call_Them_by_Their_True_Names_American_Crises__and_Essays_\" title=\"Call Them by Their True Names American Crises (and Essays) by Rebecca Solnit\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eCall Them by Their True Names\u003c/a\u003e, ‘\u003ci\u003eonce you name a disorder, you may be able to connect to the community afflicted with it, or build one.\u003c/i\u003e’ Seeing as the creation turns to evil deeds due to a feeling of isolation and being othered, this idea of naming, of giving a space, makes the lack of naming or any parental care more emphasized as a fatal misstep. So not only does Victor have his fall from grace for trying to play god, but also failing in even the most basics of paternal support. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eAm i to be thought the only criminal, when all human kind sinned against me?\u003c/i\u003e’\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eLet's turn now to Frankenstein’s monster. Left to his own devices, this giant manufactured from death finds he is met with fear and misunderstanding at every turn. While he seems to only have pure intentions at first, he is pushed into solitude and begins to lash out, especially at his creator (definitely some religious symbolism there). While he may be manmade, he is also very human all the way down to emotions and existential crises of selfhood:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eI was dependent on none and related to none. The path of my departure was free, and there was none to lament my annihilation. My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them.\u003c/i\u003e’\u003c/blockquote\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e The creature conducts his autodidactic education mostly through reading and watching a family interact. Among his books are Goethe’s \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/book/show/16640.The_Sorrows_of_Young_Werther\" title=\"The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eThe Sorrows of Young Werther\u003c/a\u003e, and Milton’s \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/book/show/15997.Paradise_Lost\" title=\"Paradise Lost by John Milton\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eParadise Lost\u003c/a\u003e, the latter being very influential on his impressions of the world and themself. From Milton he reads himself first as Adam in the creation story, but later identifies with Satan instead:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eI am thy creature: I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed. Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.\u003c/i\u003e’\u003c/blockquote\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThough he also notes that ‘\u003ci\u003eyet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone\u003c/i\u003e’ Milton pops up everywhere in his sections, such as the monsters statement that ‘\u003ci\u003eevil thenceforth became my good,\u003c/i\u003e’ which paraphrases Milton’s line ‘\u003ci\u003eEvil be thou my good.\u003c/i\u003e’ In an \u003ca href=\"http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/Articles/oates.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eessay on the novel\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/author/show/3524.Joyce_Carol_Oates\" title=\"Joyce Carol Oates\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eJoyce Carol Oates\u003c/a\u003e argues that the monster’s surprise at his reflection in the water is not a reference to Narcissus as is typically claimed, but instead a reference to Eve from Paradise Lost: ‘\u003ci\u003eOf sympathy and love; there I had fixt / Mine eyes till now, and pin’d with vain desire.\u003c/i\u003e’ This, she argues, makes the monster a sort of reverse holy trinity of creation instead of creator, speaking from Milton’s Adam, Eve and Satan as opposed to the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. There is another interesting reversal that Shelley plays with, something \u003ca href=\"http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/Articles/veeder.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eWilliam Veeder calls\u003c/a\u003e the ‘negative Oedipus.’ The monster kills Elizabeth to get to his ‘father’, Frankenstein, while the death of the doctor’s mother is his motivation to play Holy Father. At all times Shelley constructs a duality of parenthood and horror.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWhile the classic human vs nature and the whole ethical conundrum is fascinating, it is the look at the person under the extreme absence of love and support that grabs me most. On one hand it is an intriguing look at the horrors of isolation and being othered, but it also makes me wonder how narratives like this became concrete in collective consciousness and instill further fear into people against anything different. Is this also central to ideas of xenophobia and pushbacks against equality, the fear that if we allow the marginalized to have space they will harm the people-of-status-quo/colonizers as a state of revenge? Thinking about it that way is frustrating and sad, the idea that those who have been harmed continue to be so out of fear for the repercussions, which only furthers the othering and marginalizing. So I guess that’s something to consider too and work on undoing in social consciousness. And a reminder to give love and empathy. The creation only wanted to be understood, given empathy and space, given love. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eI could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.\u003c/i\u003e’\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eNow the question here proposed by Shelley is, who is the ‘true’ monster? The man who reached for the profane and abandoned it into a life of torment turning toward evil, or the misunderstood being thrust into the world already considered an abomination and becoming ‘\u003ci\u003emalicious because I am miserable.\u003c/i\u003e’ Its ethical quandaries like this that make this a fantastic classroom choice or one to toss and turn with for days. The National Theater had an excellent \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/nt-at-home-frankenstein#production-story\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003estage adaptation\u003c/a\u003e where the two leads, Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller, alternated roles as Frankenstein and Frankenstein’s monster to further interrogate this question. Though perhaps the creation says it best: ‘\u003ci\u003eListen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!\u003c/i\u003e’\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIn an \u003ca href=\"https://lithub.com/jeanette-winterson-and-mark-oconnell-on-the-future-of-humanity-in-a-tech-dominated-world/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003einterview with LitHub\u003c/a\u003e, author \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/author/show/9399.Jeanette_Winterson\" title=\"Jeanette Winterson\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eJeanette Winterson\u003c/a\u003e says of \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c/i\u003e that ‘\u003ci\u003ewe are the first generations to read it not as gothic horror but as contemporary reality.\u003c/i\u003e’ Where Shelley’s doctor steals body parts to create life with electricity, in our modern day we are pushing closer towards digital AI and already have manufactured body parts to replace our own. Even just this week it has been in the news that scientists \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/03/science/pigs-organs-death.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003ehave revived cells in dead pig’s brains and other organs\u003c/a\u003e, something that could be a breakthrough in increasing viable organ transplants. Perhaps there is something to learn from Victor’s failures as we consider how to usher new systems into the world, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/18/21121286/algorithms-bias-discrimination-facial-recognition-transparency\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eissues of bias in algorithms\u003c/a\u003e, or if an AI were to learn from us, what are we reflecting back to ourselves. Perhaps this is why Mary Shelley’s classic has endured all this time; with each new advancement in science many fear a Frankenstein unleashing his monster and with each ambition of our own we fear what may happen if we are blinded by our desires. Mary Shelley captures this perfectly and I was surprised how engaging this book was and how relevant it still felt all these years later.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003e4.5/5\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eDelighted and surprised, I embraced her, but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death; her features appeared to change, and I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel.\u003c/i\u003e’","rating":4,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/6431467?shelf=read"},"taggings":[{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"horror","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/6431467?shelf=horror"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"ethics","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/6431467?shelf=ethics"}}],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4896469550"},"likeCount":487,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":38},"User:15819476":{"id":15819476,"__typename":"User","legacyId":15819476,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1641866972i/15819476._UY200_CR1,0,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":false,"textReviewsCount":623,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"Bella","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/15819476-bella","contributor":null,"followersCount":17905},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.a63bgVqithsZpQyejJQPnA":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.a63bgVqithsZpQyejJQPnA","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:15819476"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1731196171982,"createdAt":1601749279377,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1666287346917,"text":"\u003cb\u003e2nd read:\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003escientists just don't re-animate corpses like they used to it's disappointing\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003e1st read:\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAll this time I thought I didn't like classics; turns out I just hadn't read the right ones. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI can't help but feel empathy for Frankenstein's creature, and abhor humankind for its prejudice and malice that drove this creature to murder when all he craved was the warmth of companionship.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI will never forgive modern media for making believe that this story was about a mindless, incoherent creature incapable of stringing two words together who's only destiny was to kill and be evil when in actuality all he wanted was FRIENDSHIP.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI, too, relate to his absolute emo vibes; when he says \"Hateful day when i received life!\" and \"I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.\" I'm just like yeah exactly he gets it he knows","rating":5,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/15819476?shelf=read"},"taggings":[{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"classics","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/15819476?shelf=classics"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"gifted","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/15819476?shelf=gifted"}}],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3576890133"},"likeCount":468,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":4},"Contributor:kca://author/amzn1.gr.author.v2.1d71ad26-a163-4774-b374-d9724cf1f657":{"id":"kca://author/amzn1.gr.author.v2.1d71ad26-a163-4774-b374-d9724cf1f657","__typename":"Contributor","works":{"__typename":"ContributorWorksConnection","totalCount":2}},"User:83582":{"id":83582,"__typename":"User","legacyId":83582,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1442940975i/83582._UX200_CR0,42,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":true,"textReviewsCount":1590,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"Bill Kerwin","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/83582-bill-kerwin","contributor":{"__ref":"Contributor:kca://author/amzn1.gr.author.v2.1d71ad26-a163-4774-b374-d9724cf1f657"},"followersCount":83582},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.Mdsrwad71HPyjm3cve9rJw":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.Mdsrwad71HPyjm3cve9rJw","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:83582"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1728529400286,"createdAt":1179034990000,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1554246719533,"text":"\u003cbr /\u003eIt's been fifty years since I had read \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c/i\u003e, and, now—after a recent second reading—I am pleased to know that the pleasures of that first reading have been revived. Once again--just as it was in my teens--I was thrilled by the first glimpse of the immense figure of the monster, driving his sled across the arctic ice, and marveled at the artful use of narrative frames within frame, each subsequent frame leading us closer to the heart of the novel, until we hear the alienated yet articulate voice of the creature himself. In addition, I admired the equally artful way the novel moves backward through the same frames until we again reach the arctic landscape which is the scene of the novel's beginning...and its end.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThis time through, I was particularly struck with how Mary must have been influenced by the novels of her father. The relentless hounding of one man by another who feels his life has been poisoned by that man's irresponsible curiosity is a theme taken straight out of Godwin's \u003ci\u003eCaleb Williams\u003c/i\u003e, and the cautionary account of a monomaniac who gradually deprives himself of the satisfactions of family, friends and love in pursuit of an intellectual ideal is reminiscent of the alchemist of \u003ci\u003eSt. Leon\u003c/i\u003e. Her prose also is like her father's in her ability to make delicate philosophical distinctions and express abstract ideas, but she is a much better writer than he: her sentences are more elegant and disciplined, and her descriptive details more aptly chosen and her scenes more effectively realized.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThe conclusion of the novel seems hasty and incomplete, but perhaps that is because the concept of \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c/i\u003e is so revolutionary that no conclusion could have seemed satisfactory. At any rate, this fine novel has given birth to a host of descendants, and—unlike Victor Frankenstein—is a worthy parent of its many diverse creations.","rating":5,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/83582?shelf=read"},"taggings":[{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"gothic","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/83582?shelf=gothic"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"detective-mystery","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/83582?shelf=detective-mystery"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"weird-fiction","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/83582?shelf=weird-fiction"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"epistolary","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/83582?shelf=epistolary"}}],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1182910"},"likeCount":461,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":25},"User:21937982":{"id":21937982,"__typename":"User","legacyId":21937982,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1560365354i/21937982._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":false,"textReviewsCount":614,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"Hailey (Hailey in Bookland)","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/21937982-hailey-hailey-in-bookland","contributor":null,"followersCount":85352},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.BkEwWn2VzWD4swlwx5vqqA":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.BkEwWn2VzWD4swlwx5vqqA","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:21937982"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1729708284969,"createdAt":1508210254248,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1508210416299,"text":"This was awesome. I listened to an audiobook on YouTube (as it is under the public domain). You can find it here: \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuyEaMdcwWU\u0026amp;t=20105s\"\u003ehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuyEa...\u003c/a\u003e. It was great. The narrator did a great job of building the atmosphere and excitement in the story. I always love reading the original stories behind some very iconic pop culture figures. Frankenstein is obviously incredibly popular. It was great to read and do a little bit of a personal independent study on (major nerd here). The perfect Halloween read!","rating":4,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/21937982?shelf=read"},"taggings":[{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"classics","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/21937982?shelf=classics"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"owned","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/21937982?shelf=owned"}}],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/659664492"},"likeCount":447,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":9},"Contributor:kca://author/amzn1.gr.author.v1.k1OserXD8irvxnCeqkbsag":{"id":"kca://author/amzn1.gr.author.v1.k1OserXD8irvxnCeqkbsag","__typename":"Contributor","works":{"__typename":"ContributorWorksConnection","totalCount":10}},"User:13061577":{"id":13061577,"__typename":"User","legacyId":13061577,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1614680277i/13061577._UX200_CR0,22,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":true,"textReviewsCount":465,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"Claudia Lomelí","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/13061577-claudia-lomel","contributor":{"__ref":"Contributor:kca://author/amzn1.gr.author.v1.k1OserXD8irvxnCeqkbsag"},"followersCount":82774},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.UqGIdB3j3n8r9wPIcppkJA":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.UqGIdB3j3n8r9wPIcppkJA","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:13061577"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1732683350028,"createdAt":1687428171415,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1687428223233,"text":"¡Lo disfruté mucho más de lo que esperaba! Todo el tiempo me mantuvo intrigada y, sorprendentemente, no me esperaba nada de lo que pasó, no tenía idea de cómo iba a desarrollarse la historia.","rating":4,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/13061577?shelf=read"},"taggings":[{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"2023","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/13061577?shelf=2023"}}],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5633545129"},"likeCount":416,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":2},"User:110612670":{"id":110612670,"__typename":"User","legacyId":110612670,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1647512701i/110612670._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":false,"textReviewsCount":494,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"zuza_zaksiazkowane","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/110612670-zuza-zaksiazkowane","contributor":null,"followersCount":41601},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.8aXoWCVJGY-5eZnCUMzzCw":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.8aXoWCVJGY-5eZnCUMzzCw","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:110612670"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1729440982156,"createdAt":1642783830747,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1642783838929,"text":"3.7","rating":4,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/110612670?shelf=read"},"taggings":[{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"classics","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/110612670?shelf=classics"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"in-my-home-library","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/110612670?shelf=in-my-home-library"}}],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3919948547"},"likeCount":361,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":1},"User:78485297":{"id":78485297,"__typename":"User","legacyId":78485297,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1731569636i/78485297._UY200_CR41,0,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":false,"textReviewsCount":805,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"Mario the lone bookwolf","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/78485297-mario-the-lone-bookwolf","contributor":null,"followersCount":5122},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1._B6C9r85FNHiIOaoTDqCcw":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1._B6C9r85FNHiIOaoTDqCcw","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:78485297"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1724316265982,"createdAt":1520417950993,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1672078355468,"text":"Let´s sew some bodyparts together\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eCreating life has never been so disgusting\u003cbr /\u003eAnd it started an avalanche of fantasy, horror, and sci fi ideas on how to best pimp one's corpse, zombie, alien parasite, etc. Before Frankenstein, there has always been the idea of resurrecting the dead, something comparable to the concept of creating life out of a modular system with different parts lego style. That´s the \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eUnderlying ethical, philosophical part\u003cbr /\u003eBesides faith, there is an open question about identity, soul, consciousness, and especially death. Something so deeply build into our fragile flesh systems that it freaks us out each time we are confronted with it. Thinking about the implications is what Frankenstein is about, mixed with \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBorderline science and the question of who is really evil\u003cbr /\u003eMad scientists are certainly as old as time, although I can´t choose if a crazy priest vivisecting human sacrifices is cooler than a Star Wars/Trek antagonist letting robots and AI do all the dirty work. However, it often seems as if the creature, monster, or übermensch created was the truly terrible thing and not the people sponsoring this stuff. By contrasting this with the \u003cinput type=\"checkbox\" class=\"spoiler__control\" aria-label=\"The following text has been marked spoiler. Toggle checkbox to reveal or hide.\" onchange=\"this.labels[0].setAttribute('aria-hidden', !this.checked);\" id=\"813cc868-ead0-47ca-9b0a-c647265719c8\" /\u003e\u003clabel aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"spoiler\" for=\"813cc868-ead0-47ca-9b0a-c647265719c8\"\u003e somewhat noble \u003c/label\u003e monster Shelley gives a \u003cbr /\u003e \u003cbr /\u003e Crash course in morality\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlackAndGrayMorality\"\u003ehttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlackAndWhiteMorality\"\u003ehttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlueAndOrangeMorality\"\u003ehttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GreyAndGrayMorality\"\u003ehttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhiteAndGreyMorality\"\u003ehttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThat´s something ignored and misunderstood in many interpretations and new variations, because it has much to do with one's ideology. A reason for that might be that it´s much easier to create a stereotypical work without much depth than to show the complex inner lives of all protagonists and antagonists. \u003cbr /\u003eIntegrating this element opens up many ethical implications regarding who the real monster is, leading to \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eToo many open questions that can´t be answered easily\u003cbr /\u003eSo instead of being an action filled or thrilling horror fantasy novel, Frankenstein is much deeper than one would expect. Because, honestly, didn´t many people reading it expect something like a typical horror novel and were surprised by the density of wtf moments letting one stop reading to question humanities and life itself?\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eTropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique: \u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/Frankenstein\"\u003ehttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...\u003c/a\u003e","rating":4,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/78485297?shelf=read"},"taggings":[{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"classics","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/78485297?shelf=classics"}}],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2319467285"},"likeCount":357,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":12},"User:44531801":{"id":44531801,"__typename":"User","legacyId":44531801,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1533839073i/44531801._UX200_CR0,7,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":false,"textReviewsCount":1259,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"Nayra.Hassan","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/44531801-nayra-hassan","contributor":null,"followersCount":6248},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.1TgMO-VVVeADDoG9vw1aIg":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.1TgMO-VVVeADDoG9vw1aIg","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:44531801"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1722424873914,"createdAt":1456865594000,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1659541914294,"text":"\u003cb\u003eمولد \"وحش\"بدون ام ..بعد تجارب دامت 9 اشهر\u003cbr\u003eهذا هو ملخص..خيال فج..جامح..يصيبني بالدهشة دائما\u003cbr\u003e .كلما تأكدت انه صدر عن فتاة في سن 19 عاشت في مطلع القرن 19\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://i.imgur.com/WXNJRSl\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1521638629i/25250431.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003eماري شيللي..فتاة ثرية مثقفة واجهت احساس الفقد مبكرا..نشات يتيمة الام منذ الولادة\u003cbr\u003eو فقدت ابنتها الرضيعة\u003ca href=\"https://imgbb.com/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1544612064i/26733163.png\" alt=\"Screenshot-2018-08-16-12-06-05-1\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e..و هكذا ناقشت كل مشاكلها مع الموت من خلال دكتورفرانكشتاين\u003cbr\u003eطبيب شاب ناقص الإيمان..فيبدأ تجارب كهرباءية حمقاء\u003cbr\u003eلبعث الجثث؟💥 و سرعان ما حظى\"بصنيعته\" المفترض انه مثال الجمال و الخلود..مسخ بشع..ذو سحنة ملفقة\u003cbr\u003eليطرده بقسوة\u003cbr\u003eو💫 تبدأ بعدها المشاكل الحقيقية لفرانكشتاين..\u003cbr\u003e.و يبدا في تصحيح الخطا بخطأ من الطراز ذاته..\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eمشاعر المسخ المجروحة و ذكاؤه اللافت كانت المفاجأة الحقيقية في الرواية\u003cbr\u003eوبسببها صارت علامة هامة على طريق أدب الرعب\u003cbr\u003eرواية متعددة الطبقات..بسيطة اللغة..مليئةبالعواطف المتناقضة.. و من افضل الروايات التي تعرضت لمشاعر الفقد..و الندم\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eو من المؤكد ان الرواية كانت تطهير لمشاعر ماري شيللي\u003cbr\u003eو تصالحت من خلالها مع اهم حقائق الحياة:و\u003cbr\u003e هي 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annoying scientist and an ugly tall man fight over who is more depressed","rating":1,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/106644240?shelf=read"},"taggings":[{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"romanticism-lit","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/106644240?shelf=romanticism-lit"}}],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3080650658"},"likeCount":306,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":15},"User:13699205":{"id":13699205,"__typename":"User","legacyId":13699205,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1580549084i/13699205._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":false,"textReviewsCount":508,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"ELLIAS (elliasreads)","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/13699205-ellias-elliasreads","contributor":null,"followersCount":41054},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.gPsAn2L-q0lbdZ86x6ch6Q":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.gPsAn2L-q0lbdZ86x6ch6Q","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:13699205"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1730079967800,"createdAt":1647330275093,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1647330511781,"text":"All I have to say for this book is: \u003cb\u003eit's ok, Franky, I understand you bb.\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003e\n \u003ci\u003eGuys, I can change him (tucks hair behind ear).\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eadam4ever! 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I figure it was a good time for a reread since it was one of my favorites and it has been over 20 years since I read it. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI did enjoy it again this time and it stands up to the 5 star review and designation of classic. There were a few slow parts - mainly when Dr. Frankenstein would stop the narrative to wax poetical about something - but, not enough t take a way from my overall enjoyment.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI still recommend this for everyone and be sure to check out my full original review below.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eORIGINAL REVIEW:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThis is definitely one of my favorite books I was required to read in High School. Also, it is my favorite of the classic horror novels. It is perfectly written, suspenseful, and is a bit more thought provoking than scary. One of the best ways I can compare it to other classic horror novels is to Dracula - which I read recently. 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Time Magazine, for goodness sakes, published an article that claims to know the content of the book but is completely wrong and does it while bashing a movie that did a pretty good job with it!? I mean, it it is okay if you prefer the old time movie version of Frankenstein - and it is a classic - but to make definitive statements that are completely wrong in what is supposed to be a well thought of publication (not your typical tabloid supermarket checkout fodder), that is just too much!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWe need a copy editor over here!","rating":5,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/16254355?shelf=read"},"taggings":[{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"classic","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/16254355?shelf=classic"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"action-thriller","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/16254355?shelf=action-thriller"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"own","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/16254355?shelf=own"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"required-reading-high-school","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/16254355?shelf=required-reading-high-school"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"favorites","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/16254355?shelf=favorites"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"2018","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/16254355?shelf=2018"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"audio","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/16254355?shelf=audio"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"read-more-than-once","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/16254355?shelf=read-more-than-once"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"horror","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/16254355?shelf=horror"}}],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/873481652"},"likeCount":283,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":41},"User:29931457":{"id":29931457,"__typename":"User","legacyId":29931457,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1668569905i/29931457._UY200_CR49,0,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":false,"textReviewsCount":483,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"Franco Santos","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/29931457-franco-santos","contributor":null,"followersCount":1465},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.wA6m68ppbAaquVKCmR8lnQ":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.wA6m68ppbAaquVKCmR8lnQ","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:29931457"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1731818842624,"createdAt":1455409139000,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1455603745000,"text":"Mucho se ha hablado de \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c/i\u003e. Se interpreta como una crítica al desarrollo científico, cuando este sobrepasa el curso natural de las cosas; se interpreta como una crítica a la religión y nuestra relación con Dios; hasta se ha dicho que es una alegoría a los miedos que surgen durante un embarazo. Todas estas lecturas probablemente sean correctas, pero omiten lo más básico. Lo que hace a \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c/i\u003e una obra atiborrada de humanidad, con interpolaciones que abordan la desventura a través de la complejidad de tres voces que derraman soledad y melancolía. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSi intentara tratar a \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c/i\u003e desde lo más superficial, acabaría hablando sobre la profundidad del espíritu humano y los peligros que conlleva un uso desmedido de sus facultades cognitivas o la influencia del sentimiento en sus actos. No se puede discutir este título sin penetrar en lo más reflexivo de nuestra naturaleza. \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c/i\u003e, en su perfil más somero, abarca temas que atraviesan la columna vertebral de lo que nos hace seres en constante conflicto de moralidades y en una interminable búsqueda por pertenecer y ser reconocidos, como asimismo incluye el derecho a ser amados por al menos alguien en la vida.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eA partir de un análisis ligero, \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c/i\u003e trata la venganza y el abandono. Son las dos cuestiones principales que hacen esta historia una historia con movimiento. La venganza desde el arrebato y la venganza desde el rechazo. También cabe destacar que es admirable la caracterización del Creador y su Criatura, y sus interminables pugnas por quién posee la más dañina amenaza; ya que, si lo vemos de esa forma, y teniendo en cuenta la completa implicación de las circunstancias en la novela, ¿qué es más nocivo, el rechazo injustificado o el asesinato como consecuencia de una iniquidad anterior?\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eLa denominada Criatura, Demonio, Engendro o Monstruo es de los personajes más humanos con los que me he topado. Es suntuosa la carga emotiva, el abigarramiento en el interior de un ser que fue engendrado por ciencia mal utilizada. Un vínculo irónico entre un hombre que quería ser dios y un ser que siempre quiso ser hombre. Para mí esta es la crítica más punzante de Mary Shelley. Repudia que nos dejemos llevar por las apariencias en vez de detenernos a pensar en lo que estamos haciendo. La egolatría, la soberbia y el prejuicio son lo más lamentable de nuestra conducta como humanidad, y esas condiciones danzaron alrededor del llamado Monstruo y acabaron destruyendo la bondad más pura, que, prácticamente, ni había llegado a florecer.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eNo voy a omitir la prosa, que acompaña a la perfección la calidad de este libro. No hay mejor pluma que la que te abraza y te lleva consigo en un viaje por el tiempo y el espacio hacia su historia. Mientras leía \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c/i\u003e, me sentía allí, junto a Víctor y a su Criatura, percibía la realidad que me rodeaba como falsa, como un pobre bosquejo de lo que estaba leyendo, y creía que mi pertenencia radicaba en el siglo XVII. La ambientación de Shelley es tan estupenda que fue capaz de sobrepasar los límites de la narrativa e invadir el mundo real. Excelente trabajo de la autora. Su estilo de escritura es de los puntos más fuertes del texto.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c/i\u003e se ha transformado en una de mis obras favoritas. Su retrato de la soledad, el aislamiento forzado, la pérdida y la derrota es sublime. Un relato que se construye sobre lo emocional y que tiene sus raíces en lo más hondo del alma humana. ","rating":5,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/29931457?shelf=read"},"taggings":[{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"libros-en-digital","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/29931457?shelf=libros-en-digital"}}],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1547520563"},"likeCount":275,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":31},"User:10490224":{"id":10490224,"__typename":"User","legacyId":10490224,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1528452721i/10490224._UY200_CR39,0,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":false,"textReviewsCount":2346,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"Orsodimondo [in pausa]","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/10490224-orsodimondo-in-pausa","contributor":null,"followersCount":2284},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.--4UwcM6LBF7JpGKmx42hQ":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.--4UwcM6LBF7JpGKmx42hQ","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:10490224"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1730569000238,"createdAt":1535002051075,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1670182091849,"text":"\u003cb\u003eLA MELODIA DEL DOLORE\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1535002088i/26181378._SX540_.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\" alt=\"description\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEcco il primo Frankenstein della storia del cinema: 1910, è un cortometraggio muto, americano, regia di James, Searley Dawley.\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSono passati duecento anni, due secoli tra questo 2018 e quella notte del 1818.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSono la tua creatura, ricordalo: avrei dovuto essere il tuo Adamo, e sono invece l’angelo caduto che tu hai allontanato dalla gioia senza colpa alcuna da parte sua.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1535002088i/26181379.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"226\" alt=\"description\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDieci anni dopo, 1920, sempre epoca di cinema muto, il primo Frankenstein italiano: la regia è di Eugenio Testa, Umberto Guarracino interpreta il Mostro (questo è l’unico fotogramma sopravvissuto del film).\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNon si può dire che Mary Shelley sia nata sotto i migliori auspici.\u003cbr\u003eFiglia dei \u003ci\u003edue più grandi uomini del loro tempo\u003c/i\u003e (definizione che credo sia di Mario Praz), la madre Mary Wollstonecraft, probabilmente la prima femminista della storia, e il padre William Godwin, intellettuale e filosofo radicale, la futura signora Shelley nacque il 30 agosto al posto del figlio maschio che era atteso e per il quale era già pronto il nome di William junior.\u003cbr\u003eIl 30 agosto venne alla luce Mary, la madre si ammalò, dieci giorni di febbre, e, il 10 settembre morì. \u003cbr\u003eSegno indelebile sulla piccola Mary che probabilmente da questo momento acquistò la predisposizione al dolore e la sensibilità esasperata. Una \u003ci\u003estoria più romantica d’ogni possibile romanzo\u003c/i\u003e, come Mary stessa definì la sua vita.\u003cbr\u003eSembra che ogni giorno si recasse sulla tomba della madre: a piangere, ma a sedici anni anche a promettere amore eterno al suo principe, o meglio, al suo poeta azzurro, Percy Bysshe Shelley.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1535002088i/26181380._SY540_.jpg\" width=\"399\" height=\"500\" alt=\"description\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIl Frankenstein che ha cambiato la storia: 1931, regia di James Whale, così appare Boris Karloff nei panni della creatura dopo quattro ore quotidiane di trucco. Da qui in avanti l’aspetto fisico del mostro si rifarà a questo modello.\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePer continuare sul terreno fecondo alla sua narrativa impregnata di \u003ci\u003esorrowful mood\u003c/i\u003e, Mary a 19 anni ha già perso la prima figlia, dopo solo un mese dalla nascita; partorisce un maschio, che muore a tre anni; ha un’altra femmina, che muore a un anno. \u003cbr\u003ePiù o meno nello stesso periodo, la sorella maggiore Fanny, figlia di padre diverso, si suicida con il laudano. Nel giro di poco si suicida anche la prima moglie di Shelley, preparando così la strada al matrimonio tra la scrittrice e il poeta.\u003cbr\u003eMary riuscì a seppellire anche il suo amato Percy, che morì annegato.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1535002088i/26181381._SX540_.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" alt=\"description\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIl romanzo di Polidori fu scritto contemporaneamente a quello della Shelley.\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eÈ proprio in questo arco di tempo, segnato da morte e suicidio (tutte morti premature, se esiste un tipo di morte che non lo sia), che Mary Shelley partorisce il suo romanzo più famoso, \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein, or, the modern Prometheus\u003c/i\u003e, tra il 1816 e il 1817, tra i diciannove e i venti anni (fu pubblicato nel 1818).\u003cbr\u003eLa genesi è aneddoto piuttosto noto: Mary è convinta da sua sorella Claire (Clairmont: stessa madre ma padre differente), che all’epoca era l’amate di Lord Byron, a seguirla a Ginevra dove affittano Villa Diodati. La comitiva è composta da Mary e Shelley, Claire e Byron, il medico e scrittore John Polidori. Tempo piovoso, fu l’anno definito “senza estate”, gli amici leggono molto, soprattutto storie tedesche di fantasmi e il \u003ci\u003eParadiso Perduto\u003c/i\u003e di John Milton. Alla fine (solo tre giorni), Mary produce il Frankenstein, Byron frammenti di un romanzo, e Polidori \u003ci\u003eIl Vampiro\u003c/i\u003e, il primo vampiro moderno.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1535002088i/26181382.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" alt=\"description\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLa versione cinematografica che trovo più prossima al romanzo della Shelley è questa, del 1994: regia di Kenneth Branagh, Robert De Niro interpreta la mostruosa creatura.\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSi direbbe che Mary tolga la vita a chi la genera (la morte di parto di sua madre) e generi chi in vita non sa restare (i tre figli): nascere è direttamente collegato al morire, che col Frankenstein diventa assassinio.\u003cbr\u003eE Mary si sente contemporaneamente sia il creatore Frankenstein che la mostruosa creatura: Victor Frankenstein, lo scienziato e costruttore impegnato a riprodurre la vita (dalla morte, servendosi di parti di persone già morte) rifiuta la creatura che ha messo al mondo, e la creatura rifiutata si trasforma in agente di distruzione e morte, con metodo, ostinazione, e si direbbe quasi passione, si impegna a distruggere la famiglia del suo autore. \u003cbr\u003eNel senso che, se la famiglia non lo vuole, il neonato (di dimensioni e proporzioni mostruose) eliminerà la famiglia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1535002088i/26181383._SX540_.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" alt=\"description\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKenneth Branagh, regista e interprete, nei panni (pantaloni) del dottor Victor Frankenstein.\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eViene da rintracciare una genesi del pensiero materno in materia di femminilità nel rifiuto della creatura al momento del concepimento: invece di provare affetto in qualche modo ‘paterno’, Frankenstein classifica la sua creazione come mostruosa sulla base del solo aspetto fisico e la respinge immediatamente (rifiuta, rinnega…). \u003cbr\u003eEppure il ‘neonato’ non può essere malvagio fin dal primo momento, non può essere nato cattivo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1535002088i/26181384.jpg\" width=\"386\" height=\"482\" alt=\"description\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEd ecco qui a confronto la creatura e il suo creatore, Frankenstein/Branagh e Mostro/De Niro.\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVictor Frankenstein, medico e scienziato, è il moderno Prometeo: che ruba il fuoco della vita, ruba la vita alla stessa morte: la materia morta si trasforma in energia viva. Orrenda metamorfosi!\u003cbr\u003eMa se è Frankenstein a sfidare dio, è sulla creatura che si scatena la punizione divina!\u003cbr\u003eÈ la stessa Shelley a essere, per così dire, schizofrenica con i suoi due personaggi: per quanto il lettore dovrebbe tifare in automatico per la creatura che è innocente, è una tabula rasa, dato che è appena nata, e certo non responsabile della sua nascita (come non lo è nessun figlio), la Shelley ci spinge (forse perfino di più) a prendere le parti del dottor Frankenstein, ci vuol convincere che la creatura è un mostro prima di tutto per il suo aspetto fisico (brutta, antiestetica).\u003cbr\u003eJekyll e Hyde con settanta anni d’anticipo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1535002088i/26181385._SX540_.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"306\" alt=\"description\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNon poteva mancare il capolavoro, “young Frankenstein” di Mel Brooks (1974). Qui, Aigor “appena morto”.\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMa è un mostro umano, probabilmente il primo, e sin dalla sua prima apparizione il terrore si mescola alla compassione, perché la Creatura, che ruba il nome al suo creatore diventando Frankenstein tout court, è da subito un infelice, una vittima, un diverso, qualcuno con cui possiamo identificarci.\u003cbr\u003eTalmente umano da diventare sovrumano: la sua dimensione sessuale è elemento di curiosità e attrazione, almeno sullo schermo. Si pensi a Udo Kier che si accoppia con Dalila Di Lazzaro in \u003ci\u003eIl mostro è in tavola, barone Frankenstein\u003c/i\u003e prodotto da Andy Warhol, oppure ad Aldo Maccione macho trash in \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein all’italiana\u003c/i\u003e, al Frank-N-Furter in guêpière e paillettes in \u003ci\u003eThe Rocky Horror Picture Show\u003c/i\u003e, o al tenerissimo mostro creatura di Mel Brooks dotato di grosso schwanzstuck.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1541059139i/26531213._SX540_.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"263\" alt=\"description\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCreatore e creatura, padre e figlio, Gene Wilder e Peter Boyle.\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTutti gli uomini odiano gli sciagurati. Quanto allora devo essere odiato io, di gran lunga il più miserabile tra gli esseri viventi. Pure tu, mio creatore, detesti e disprezzi me, tua creatura, a cui sei legato da vincoli che solo l’annientamento di uno di noi può sciogliere\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePS\u003cbr\u003eI film dove compare Frankenstein, o meglio, la sua creatura, il Mostro, sono decine, io ne ho contati oltre settanta, incluse le parodie (su tutte, Frankenstein Jr), i cross-over (Frankenstein contro l’Uomo Lupo) , le parodie cross-over (Fracchia contro Dracula).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1601960965i/30199147._SX540_.jpg\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTim Curry indimenticabile Dr Frank-N-Furter in the “Rocky Horror Picture Show”, il primo artefice bisessuale della “creatura”.\u003c/b\u003e","rating":4,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/10490224?shelf=read"},"taggings":[{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"inglese","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/10490224?shelf=inglese"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"horror","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/10490224?shelf=horror"}}],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2504104401"},"likeCount":265,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":15},"User:1232712":{"id":1232712,"__typename":"User","legacyId":1232712,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1552603488i/1232712._UX200_CR0,31,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":false,"textReviewsCount":997,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"Matt","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1232712-matt","contributor":null,"followersCount":29733},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.WospIdgLwmyUtj-gKgpvyQ":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.WospIdgLwmyUtj-gKgpvyQ","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:1232712"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1732102038778,"createdAt":1603317483724,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1695419449272,"text":"\u003cb\u003e“It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs…”\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e-\tMary Shelley, \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c/i\u003e \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c/i\u003e is a marvelous example of a book that escaped from its author and took on an entirely new existence beyond the boundaries of the page. There is an elegant symmetry to this. After all, the novel concerns a “monster” or “daemon” that slips away from its creator, the scientist Victor Frankenstein, to cause havoc in the world. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eToday, when we think of Frankenstein – or more accurately, about scientist Victor Frankenstein’s never-named creature – we are likely imagining something other than the somewhat vaguely-described human-ish thing in Mary Shelley’s 1818 horror classic. Unmoored from its literary roots, the Frankenstein’s monster we call forth in our minds is probably closer in conception to Boris Karloff’s famous version from the 1930s: square-headed and scarred, with metal bolts in the neck. This is a visage that is ubiquitous every October, found in movies, on television, and selling Halloween candy. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003ePart of the fun of reading \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c/i\u003e is to see how far this cobbled-together man has traveled from Shelley’s original iteration. Frankly, this was probably the \u003ci\u003eonly\u003c/i\u003e fun I had, as \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c/i\u003e, for all its bursts of creativity, its sudden flashes of discrete violence, is a bit of a wordy drag. It is fully a piece from the Romantic era, from the overwrought emotional excesses of its characters, to the gorgeous, travelogue-like descriptions of the Alps. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e***\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAccording to Shelley – in an 1831 forward to the revised text – \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c/i\u003e had its genesis in a spontaneous parlor game between famed wordsmiths, of which she took part. Only eighteen at the time, Shelley was vacationing in Lake Geneva with her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the famous Lord Byron. Byron apparently suggested they each write a ghost story, since the weather was too lousy to do much else. Mary Shelley’s contribution, according to this lore, was \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus\u003c/i\u003e. The short story she began in a cold and dispiriting Switzerland eventually became a full-length novel that is currently enjoying a two-hundred year afterlife. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e***\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAs an aside, Shelley’s life, and her relationship with the doomed Percy, is worth exploring. There is free love, unfounded suggestions that Percy penned \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c/i\u003e, and tragedy aplenty.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e*** \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c/i\u003e utilizes an epistolary framing device, both beginning and ending with a series of “letters” from an adventurous mariner to his sister. Initially, I was entirely uncertain what these missives had to do with Frankenstein and his monster. As a result, the novel started extremely slow for me, as I found myself reading only a couple pages at a time before losing interest, never really finding the hook. Ultimately – as you can see – I pushed through, but it was only much later, when the letters reappear at the end, that everything clicked into place (and I went back and reread the opening gambit). \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOnce this prelude is out of the way, we begin the main part of the narrative, which is told in the first-person by the emotionally labile Frankenstein. For reasons put down to obsession, young Frankenstein is preoccupied with creating new life. Working alone and in fanatical devotion to his goal, Frankenstein begins assembling his \u003ci\u003ething\u003c/i\u003e: \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eI collected bones from charnel-houses; and disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secrets of the human frame. In a solitary chamber, or rather cell, at the top of the house, and separated from all the other apartments by a gallery and staircase, I kept my workshop of filthy creation: my eye-balls were starting from their sockets in attending to the details of my employment. The dissecting room and the slaughterhouse furnished many of my materials; and often did my human nature turn with loathing from my occupation, whilst, still urged on by an eagerness which perpetually increased, I brought my work near to a conclusion.\u003c/blockquote\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIt does not – \u003ci\u003eshould\u003c/i\u003e not – spoil anything to say that Frankenstein is successful in his endeavors, at least up to a point. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e***\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThe monster or creature or daemon or whatever you’d like to call it – just don’t call it Frankenstein – comes to life and immediately begins to torment Victor. Unlike the shambling, slow-moving, slow-witted monster of modern pop culture, Shelley’s creature moves faster than the zombies in \u003ci\u003e28 Days Later\u003c/i\u003e, climbs mountains like Sly Stallone in \u003ci\u003eCliffhanger\u003c/i\u003e, and is an exceptionally advanced autodidact, not only teaching himself to speak, but to read \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePlutarch’s Lives\u003c/i\u003e. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eFrankenstein and his monster engage in a globetrotting game of cat-and-mouse, which might have been exciting, if not written in the overly formal, cluttered style of the early nineteenth century. Shelley tells this story broadly, seldom taking any time to build a scene, ratchet up suspense, or pay off a plot arc. Instead, through the excitable, often operatically frantic voice of Frankenstein, we are given broad characters (Elizabeth, for instance, seems to be a forerunner of Dickens’s saintly – and boring – Esther Summerson), unexciting action, and pointedly telegraphed plot points. It says something that the high point of \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c/i\u003e is a story-within-a-story (in true Conradian fashion) told by the monster itself. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eHonestly, I have a predisposition against books written in the archaic-feeling style of \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c/i\u003e. It is something I always thought I’d grow out of as I aged. Alas, it has been two decades since high school, and my bias against writers who use \u003ci\u003ethee\u003c/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ethy\u003c/i\u003e still abides. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThat is not to say I recommend skipping this novel, because I don’t. I also did not hate it, not by any means. The story works better in summary than in execution, and it requires close attention, but it is a genuine triumph of imagination. It is also far more polished and thematically coherent than Bram Stoker’s later attempt at Gothic horror (which has also turned out to be undying). \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e***\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eCertain books have meanings beyond the composition of sentences and the contours of a storyline. Shelley created something in \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c/i\u003e that has endured for a couple centuries, and will likely live on forever, as long as people read. For that reason – if not \u003ci\u003eonly\u003c/i\u003e for that reason – this classic example of a thinking person’s horror novel is worth checking out.","rating":4,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1232712?shelf=read"},"taggings":[{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"classic-novels","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1232712?shelf=classic-novels"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"horror","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1232712?shelf=horror"}}],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3594576189"},"likeCount":257,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":11},"User:53165":{"id":53165,"__typename":"User","legacyId":53165,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1510406793i/53165._UY200_CR77,0,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":false,"textReviewsCount":911,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"Warwick","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/53165-warwick","contributor":null,"followersCount":15030},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.Afq7Oc_E2dYutiJwYmRx2g":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.Afq7Oc_E2dYutiJwYmRx2g","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:53165"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1732248449774,"createdAt":1440141314000,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1440835606000,"text":"I have a favourite Kate Beaton strip framed up in our book room:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1380439499i/1012395._SX540_.png\" width=\"400\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e(Full-size image \u003ca href=\"http://harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=56\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003ehere\u003c/a\u003e.)\u003c/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary was – what? – eighteen years old when she went on this famous holiday to Lake Geneva with Percy Bysshe Shelley and Byron and Byron's physician. She was calling herself ‘Mrs Shelley’, though they had not yet married – Percy was still married to someone else.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe surroundings were familiar. The last time Mary and Percy had come to Switzerland had been during their elopement a couple of years earlier, accompanied by her sister, who was also in love with him; Mary had got pregnant, but the baby girl was born prematurely and died in February 1815. Now they were back, trying to put the past behind them and enjoy a holiday with Byron, who at the time was sleeping with Mary's stepsister. Percy's first wife would soon be out of the picture, found drowned in the Serpentine in an ‘advanced state of pregnancy’ before the year was out. Mary's other sister Fanny also drowned herself that year, 1816, also pining for Percy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo it was in the midst of this complex love-dodecahedron that the holidaymakers, their festive plans foiled by constant rain, held their famous competition to write a ghost story. The result is something very different from its image in popular culture. Instead of the smoke of Victorian London, we have the Swiss Alps and the Orkney Islands; instead of Igor and bolts through the neck, we have meditations on personal autonomy, scientific responsibility and eugenics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c/i\u003e is overwritten and the narrative structure is a bit odd – she was still a teenager when she wrote it, let's not forget – but thematically, it's fascinating. I'm surprised by how few reviews I've read touch on what seems to me to be the intensely female experiences that it obliquely comments on. The confusion of bringing a creature into the world only to feel horror and revulsion towards it. The stress of releasing it into a hostile and uncaring world. And perhaps most of all, the deep sympathy shown with someone who feels that their body is not their own, that it is somehow owned and regulated by others. A body that one is taught by society to hate. The monster's feelings are unimportant, because he was created by a man for the man's own gratification.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary quotes her beloved Percy Bysshe Shelley, unattributively, when Dr Frankenstein first spots his creature up on the Mer de Glace. She uses the final two stanzas from ‘Mutability’. For me though it's the beautiful first stanza that better expresses the ferocious intensity of Mary and her circle of friends and lovers, surrounded as they all seemed to be by imminent, premature death:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eWe are as clouds that veil the midnight moon;\u003cbr\u003e How restlessly they speed, and gleam, and quiver,\u003cbr\u003eStreaking the darkness radiantly!—yet soon\u003cbr\u003e Night closes round, and they are lost forever…\u003c/blockquote\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs they all were. But the writing they left behind will last as long as English literature is read, and for all of its problems \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c/i\u003e is among that select group.","rating":3,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/53165?shelf=read"},"taggings":[{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"fiction","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/53165?shelf=fiction"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"horror","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/53165?shelf=horror"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"switzerland","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/53165?shelf=switzerland"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"germany","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/53165?shelf=germany"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"geneva","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/53165?shelf=geneva"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"gothic","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/53165?shelf=gothic"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"scotland","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/53165?shelf=scotland"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"ebooks","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/53165?shelf=ebooks"}}],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1369724685"},"likeCount":259,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":35},"User:614778":{"id":614778,"__typename":"User","legacyId":614778,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1194930432p8/614778._SX200_SY200_.jpg","isAuthor":false,"textReviewsCount":9563,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"Ahmad Sharabiani","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/614778-ahmad-sharabiani","contributor":null,"followersCount":514},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.E9DpV2u6VggBLx89kbCwqg":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.E9DpV2u6VggBLx89kbCwqg","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:614778"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1688439079508,"createdAt":1416375234000,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1629256311943,"text":"\u003cb\u003eFrankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelley \u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eFrankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797–1851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a grotesque, sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eShelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition of the novel was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared on the second edition, published in France in 1823.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eFrankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eFrankenstein is a frame story written in epistolary form. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIt documents a fictional correspondence between Captain Robert Walton and his sister, Margaret Walton Saville. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eRobert Walton is a failed writer who sets out to explore the North Pole in hopes of expanding scientific knowledge. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eDuring the voyage, the crew spots a dog sled driven by a gigantic figure. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eA few hours later, the crew rescues a nearly frozen and emaciated man named Victor Frankenstein. Frankenstein has been in pursuit of the gigantic man observed by Walton's crew. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eFrankenstein starts to recover from his exertion; he sees in Walton the same obsession that has destroyed him and recounts a story of his life's miseries to Walton as a warning. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThe recounted story serves as the frame for Frankenstein's narrative. ...\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eتاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز هشتم ماه دسامبر سال 1995میلادی؛ تاریخ خوانش دوم: روز نوزدهم نوامیر سال 2011میلادی\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eعنوان: فرانکشتاین؛ مری شلی؛ مترجم: جعفر مدرس صادقی؛ تهران، نشر مرکز، 1374؛ متن کوتاه شده در 224ص؛ شابک 9643051064؛ موضوع: داستانهای نویسندگان بریتانیا - سده 19م\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eمترجم: محسن سلیمانی؛ تهران؛ قدیانی، چاپ چهارم 1392؛ در 326ص؛ شابک 9789645366184؛\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eعنوان: فرانکنشتاین یا پرومته نوین؛ نویسنده: مری شلی؛ مترجم: کاظم فیروزمند؛ تهران، نشر مرکز، چاپ دوم 1389؛ در 262ص؛ شابک 9789642131037؛ \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eفرانکنشتاین، دانشمند جوانی جاه‌ طلب، و جویای نام است، که جانوری زنده، به شکل انسان، و با ابعاد کمی بزرگ‌تر از یک آدم معمولی، و با ریخت و قیافه‌ ای زشت، و مخوف می‌سازد؛ که همه، از جمله سازنده‌ اش، از دست او، و شرارت‌هایش می‌گریزند؛ اما به تدریج خود آن هیولا، به «فرانکنشتاین» نامدار شده، و این نام، اسم عامی شده، برای آفریده های ویرانگری که از اختیار آفرینشگر خویش نیز، خارج میشوند، و حتی آفریننده نیز، توان مهار نیروی ویرانگر آنها را ندارد؛ «مری شلی»، نویسنده‌ ی این اثر، همسر «شلی»، شاعر بزرگ رمانتیک «بریتانیایی» بودند، و رمان‌های دیگری نیز بنوشته اند، اما تنها همین اثر ایشان بود، که شهرت ماندگار و جهانگیر یافت؛\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eرمانها: «فرانکنشتاین (1818میلادی)»؛ «ماتیلدا (1819 میلادی) - رمان کوتاه»؛ «آخرین نفر (1826میلادی) - در یک سه‌ گانه ی داستانی علمی-تخیلی را روایت می‌کند: سده ی بیست و یکم میلادی است، بیماری طاعون نسل بشر را از بین برده و تنها یک نفر باقی مانده‌ است، آخرین نفر»؛ «والپرگا (1823میلادی) - ماجرایی از زندگی در ایتالیای سده های میانی میلادی را نقل می‌کند»؛ «بخت و اقبال پرکین واربِک (1830میلادی)»؛ «لادور (1835میلادی) - همچنین با عنوان (بیوه زیبا) نیز شناخته می‌شود»؛ «فالکنر (1837 میلادی)؛\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eداستانهای کوتاه: «یادبود»؛ «سفرنامه»؛ «تاریخ شش هفته ‌ای»؛ «وقایع بزرگ و فوق‌العاده»؛ «ولگردی در آلمان و ایتالیا در سال‌های 1840میلادی، 1842میلادی و 1843میلادی»؛\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eشرح حال: شرح زندگانی برجسته ‌ترین ادبا و علما، و ...؛\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eتاریخ بهنگام رسانی 12/07/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی","rating":4,"shelving":null,"likeCount":null,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":null},"User:117399210":{"id":117399210,"__typename":"User","legacyId":117399210,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1726866544i/117399210._UX200_CR0,45,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":false,"textReviewsCount":2197,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"Luís","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/117399210-lu-s","contributor":null,"followersCount":1045},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.MOdbXwidgVUZiLzXdgEJJw":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.MOdbXwidgVUZiLzXdgEJJw","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:117399210"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1731264267074,"createdAt":1593095242898,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1730118819586,"text":"Sometimes, literature stands for little. The Tambora volcano eruption 1815 completely changed Europe's climate, particularly between 1816 and 1817. It led to almost glacial periods in the Alps. Around this time, friends Shelley and Byron traveled around Switzerland on vacation. The lousy weather obliges them to often remain secluded in their chalet, with, like a favorite pastime, to invent extraordinary stories. During one of these evenings, it would be born, from the imagination of Mary Shelley, the character of Frankenstein and his creature - feeding on romantic, gothic, and fantastic literature, with the scientific spirit in vogue at the time of the early 19th century. It continued to polish the plot with the help of Percy Shelley. He then relayed by cinema and the high physics of Boris Karloff. And this is how a myth is born!\u003cbr /\u003eWhat remains today of good literary work? The plot is very moralizing. Like Prometheus, can a man play the Demiurge? The good feelings, the good, and the bad repeated to excess weigh down the story. Too many lengths on existential themes harm the action. 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