you ever think about how, like, frankenstein and the picture of dorian gray both feature like a main trinity of three men all linked together in a homoerotic (or at least more than friendly) way? in frankenstein, victor adores clerval, and walton adores victor- but while clerval reciprocates the affection, after his demise victor cannot bring himself to accept waltonās confession as he feels like he would be replacing clerval. on the other hand, in the picture of dorian gray, basil is the one who has unrequited love for dorianā meanwhile, dorian and lord henry have a distinctly unhealthy reciprocation of affection where dorian loves henry for his āadviceā and gifts, and henry fetishises dorianās innocence and how easy he is to manipulate (he compares it to playing him like a violin, a metaphor dorian also applies to sybil vane). the character parallels are strangely fitting: walton and basil are the sensitive and isolated unrequited lovers, whose object of affection is deeply afflicted by concealed sinsā dorian and clerval are obsessed with the pursuit of beauty and living life to the full, and are both seen as beautiful and gentle in their mannerisms. and i suppose lord henry and victor share some similarities, too- although victor is not a manipulator like lord henry is, they are both undoubtedly the ones at fault for the tragedies they participate in. lord henry uses the suicide of sybil vane to manipulate dorian, and in a sense causes the death of basil, his lifelong friend. through the monster, victor has the blood of william, justine, elizabeth and clerval on his hands. i donāt know, maybe iām trying too hard to find similaritiesā but i think itās interesting how both gothic novels orbit around a triad of men bound together by what is either hinted at, or intended as, relationships with a distinctly homoerotic nature.
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