#book frankenstein

[winter-wise]

Frankenstein describes the creation as "His limbs were in proportion" but later, Walton states that the creature is "distorted in its proportions" and it's only just occurred to me that Frankenstein could simply have been lying about how well he laid out the creature's proportions.

[raccoonclubhouse]

Mousenstein lamenting his mistakes + a sealton talking to him ,and extra mousenstein doodles

[edge-lorde]

Let's goooo. I'm cooking I'm cooking I'm cooking

[sliceofsnail]

~ Quotes from what I’m Reading ~

“I am malicious because I am miserable,”

- Mary Shelly, Frankenstein, 1831

[poor-dumb-snek]

“Remember that 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” 

A rendition of The Creature that I did for a Zine I am working on, focusing on iconic characters and monsters from Gothic Literature. 

[thuktunflishithy]

You know, it’s a great tragedy that the literary version of the Monster wasn’t made by the film version of Frankenstein. They’re like incomplete halves that would perfectly complement each other.

The Monster in the book was an innocent blank slate with an immense mind, who was spurned by his horrified father and left to stew in misery and all the negative human experiences just because he was a little weird to look at.

Meanwhile movie Frankenstein was actually a caring creator to the creature, who was screwed over by the Monster having the brain of a violent criminal and his poor choice of lab assistants. It wasn’t until the Monster broke Fritz like a twig that he realized he had to put down his creation.

Imagine if the Monster in the book had that sort of mad scientist dad? Someone who would actually try to teach him speech and morals, uncaring about his ugliness and his odd behaviors. Someone who saw a shambling stitched-together corpse twitch and joyously screamed that it was alive, versus the byronic bitchboy who heard his creation make baby noises and decided to become a deadbeat dad?

The story of both Frankensteins would’ve been a lot happier in that case. 

[winter-wise]

"You only like the creature now because he's played by a hot man"

False. I have loved the creature since I first read Frankenstein as a teenager and, loving this character, I can still acknowledge his flaws (he has none) and I can hold him accountable for his wrongdoings (he has never done anything wrong in his life) and call him out on his actions (which are always correct)

[winter-wise]

As a lifelong fan of the book I don't mind that Clerval isn't in the 2025 adaptation because the way Victor is potrayed in del Toro's version makes it very clear that he is not the sort of man who would have a friend like Clerval.