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Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Confinement, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment
Moderate: Mental illness, Terminal illness, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Animal death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Colonisation
I'm glad I finally finished one more classic read, yay~!
Graphic: Child death, Grief, Murder, Abandonment
Moderate: Incest
Minor: Animal death, Body shaming, Death of parent
Graphic: Child death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Grief, Death of parent, Murder
Moderate: Sexism, Stalking, Colonisation
Minor: Animal death, Genocide, Racism, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Ableism, Child death, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment
Moderate: Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Suicide attempt
Minor: Colonisation
Moderate: Child death, Death of parent
Minor: Animal death
Graphic: Body horror
Moderate: Animal death, Death, Emotional abuse, Abandonment
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Suicide, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder
Minor: Animal death
Graphic: Violence
Moderate: Child death, Death
Minor: Animal death, Stalking, Death of parent
Graphic: Child death, Death, Murder
Moderate: Animal death
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is a classic and Shelley is the mother of modern horror. I actually enjoyed this one more than Dracula, despite my prejudice against classics.
We get a man vs. his creation kind of story here. Frankenstein is obsessed with the natural sciences and endeavors create life out of remnant of body parts. He chooses to make something monsterous looking and then abandons it to fend for itself.
Spurned by his creator and unable to properly perceive his senses, the creature wonders around blindly and stupidly until he figures out his new sensations and begins to learn. Having not read this before, I assumed the creature would be mindless, but he is inquisitive and a quick learner. He learns language from hiding himself in a hovel attached to a family's shack and becomes quite proficient. The creature only longs for kindness and friendship, but is cursed and chased away by any who lay on eyes on his unfortunate face.
I'm not receiving kindness or compassion, the creatures sets to revenge against Frankenstein for carelessly bringing him to life and denying him a companion. A little compassion from Frankenstein could have gone a long way.
To me, this was a story about how important it is to show all creatures (ugly or beautiful) compassion and kindness. The creature became the demon people accused him of being. I think there is also some commentary here about the trials ugly or deformed people or disabled people encounter, as these themes often come up to denote morality of a character. Another case of "don't judge a book by its cover."
Shelley also quotes her husband's works throughout the book, which I found adorable. I can see why this story has endured as long as it has, and we can see echos of this in modern storytelling as well (Data from TNG, any alien or robot trying to be more human, any misunderstood being because of how they look).
Moderate: Animal death, Child death
Minor: Suicidal thoughts