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3.86 AVERAGE
3.86 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This being written by a teenage girl in 1818 is crazy.
Criticisms of woman characters being passive become commentary of a woman's autonomy of the time.
Victor not only played god and created life from death, he also subverted women's role in nature.
The creatures perspective, the other, is fighting for pages in the middle of the book sandwiched between two loud unreliable male narrators.
The creature, ignored and shunned by his creator, learns how to be function in society by observing a nuclear family, and he arrives to the conclusion that he needs a woman. At no point during his persuasion of Victor to make him a mate does he consider her autonomy, meanwhile victors biggest concern is if she'll be pretty enough, if she'll be evil, if she'll help procreate a race of others who would rise up.
Victors family raised an orphaned girl with the intention of having her grow and marry Victor, but he rejects the opportunity to do the same for the creature. Not for morally superior reasoning, but hypocrisy.
Theres no hero in this story, there are countless pages of wallow, self pity, ego, destruction, revenge, and death.
Not the best read, but a story that will remain timeless.
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Works really well as a ghost story. I think there's a lot of room for easy philosophical discussion, which I missed out on by reading it alone, but I'm glad I now know the origin of the Frankenstein mythos.
adventurous
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
sad
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
The Creature is such a lover boy!!! Loved but cannot begin to understand how Oscar Isaac was cast as Frankenstein
challenging
dark
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
No notes, an excellent read for the start of Fall.
dark
mysterious
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes