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kate_elle's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Incest, Violence, Medical content, Stalking, and Murder
luxxltyd's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Abandonment
Moderate: Suicide
Minor: Incest
some_random_person_hi's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Read it for lit.
Depressing pre-analysis and depressing post-analysis.
Depressing pre-analysis and depressing post-analysis.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mental illness, Grief, and Abandonment
Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Death, Suicide, Violence, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Forced institutionalization, Abortion, and Fire/Fire injury
arayo's review against another edition
dark
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder
Moderate: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence
Minor: Confinement
euhfubeuh's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a tale of corruption, lonesomeness, and terror. Dr. Frankenstein learns how his own actions to satisfy his loneliness may come back to haunt him, and Frankenstein’s monster is born with a fresh moral slate but the disadvantage of ugliness and the victim of prejudice. This story exhibits the effects of a bigoted society on one’s moral values, and how one lonely scientist takes things too far.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Murder
Minor: Religious bigotry
abby_can_read's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
🎧
This book was fine. It was a struggle at times. I liked the narrators.
This book was fine. It was a struggle at times. I liked the narrators.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Death, and Murder
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Death of parent
Minor: Animal death, Incest, and Racism
danaslitlist's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Viktor Frankenstein is the definition of an egotistical, trust fund, whiney bitch baby and deserved everything he got.
With that being said, reading Frankenstein is a masterclass in how to write the complexities of who we perceive as the villains within the narrative. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley knew that when writing this book that the real villain wasn't the Adam* (*a name given to the Monster by myself and other readers), at least not just Adam, and she made sure to present this to the readers through the actions of the "hero" as well as through the stories shared by Adam.
Viktor, the Creator laments on the wickedness and evil of Adam from the moment Adam comes to life, discarding him the instant he deems Adam as too hideous to behold, as not the perfect design. He leaves his Creation, abandoning him to a world that judges outwardly appearance above action or desires. Viktor is looking back at us through the mirror that Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley holds up to the reader, urging us to examine our own biases.
I truly understand why this book is beloved and how it was so revolutionary for its time because, in all honesty, Frankenstein is story that continues to resonate in our current era.
With that being said, reading Frankenstein is a masterclass in how to write the complexities of who we perceive as the villains within the narrative. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley knew that when writing this book that the real villain wasn't the Adam* (*a name given to the Monster by myself and other readers), at least not just Adam, and she made sure to present this to the readers through the actions of the "hero" as well as through the stories shared by Adam.
Viktor, the Creator laments on the wickedness and evil of Adam from the moment Adam comes to life, discarding him the instant he deems Adam as too hideous to behold, as not the perfect design. He leaves his Creation, abandoning him to a world that judges outwardly appearance above action or desires. Viktor is looking back at us through the mirror that Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley holds up to the reader, urging us to examine our own biases.
I truly understand why this book is beloved and how it was so revolutionary for its time because, in all honesty, Frankenstein is story that continues to resonate in our current era.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Physical abuse, Murder, and Abandonment
toksoplazmozy's review against another edition
dark
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Minor: Child death, Death, Incest, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder
lilacerie's review against another edition
dark
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it🏔️🌌”
Frankenstein is a sweeping, gothic delight that provides interesting insight into human nature + the depth of human cruelty. I honestly found myself able to discuss it at length with lots of people around me because the themes presented are so engaging. It depicts what it means to be Othered through the creature and is an exploration of the conflict between all-consuming individualistic pursuits of greatness and the human need for community, connection and love. Victor’s rejection of community is what ultimately led to his downfall and that same lack of love and care is what he cursed his Creature child to. What I found particularly poignont and painful is Victor’s positioning as a failed parent and the Creature’s as his scorned child. It was so heart-wrenching and beautifully executed. I thought I enjoyed the sections centered on Victor, but when I first read from the Creature's perspective, I was utterly swept away. Reading about him lumbering through the forest awkwardly with the senses of a confused child cut deep and the depth of loneliness experienced by his character is rendered in dazzling clarity in Shelley's atmospheric prose. Something that stuck with me is the solace both characters found in the natural world, and I felt a pang of heartbreak thinking about how both father and cursed son wandered through the world with only the moon and the mountains for company.
This is one of my favourite books but I’m knocking off a star for the deeply orientalist portray of Safie sometimes called ‘The Arabian’ like she’s a sought after breed of horse and her father who is only referred to as ‘the Turk’, ‘the treacherous Turk’ or ‘the unfortunate Muhammadan’. I’d recommend reading Sauleha Kamal’s
‘ Muslim Women and the Victim/Seductress Binary in Frankenstein and “Alastor” ’ for more on this. As a Muslim woman, this subplot left a bad taste in my mouth but I don’t expect much from Mary Shelley considering that she’s an upper class, white Victorian woman whose mother was literally Mary Wollstonecraft (Wollstonecraft’s ideas of women’s liberation in relation to 'Eastern women' have racist, orientalist underpinnings).
Frankenstein is a sweeping, gothic delight that provides interesting insight into human nature + the depth of human cruelty. I honestly found myself able to discuss it at length with lots of people around me because the themes presented are so engaging. It depicts what it means to be Othered through the creature and is an exploration of the conflict between all-consuming individualistic pursuits of greatness and the human need for community, connection and love. Victor’s rejection of community is what ultimately led to his downfall and that same lack of love and care is what he cursed his Creature child to. What I found particularly poignont and painful is Victor’s positioning as a failed parent and the Creature’s as his scorned child. It was so heart-wrenching and beautifully executed. I thought I enjoyed the sections centered on Victor, but when I first read from the Creature's perspective, I was utterly swept away. Reading about him lumbering through the forest awkwardly with the senses of a confused child cut deep and the depth of loneliness experienced by his character is rendered in dazzling clarity in Shelley's atmospheric prose. Something that stuck with me is the solace both characters found in the natural world, and I felt a pang of heartbreak thinking about how both father and cursed son wandered through the world with only the moon and the mountains for company.
This is one of my favourite books but I’m knocking off a star for the deeply orientalist portray of Safie sometimes called ‘The Arabian’ like she’s a sought after breed of horse and her father who is only referred to as ‘the Turk’, ‘the treacherous Turk’ or ‘the unfortunate Muhammadan’. I’d recommend reading Sauleha Kamal’s
‘ Muslim Women and the Victim/Seductress Binary in Frankenstein and “Alastor” ’ for more on this. As a Muslim woman, this subplot left a bad taste in my mouth but I don’t expect much from Mary Shelley considering that she’s an upper class, white Victorian woman whose mother was literally Mary Wollstonecraft (Wollstonecraft’s ideas of women’s liberation in relation to 'Eastern women' have racist, orientalist underpinnings).
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Murder, and Abandonment
julells's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Ein ewiger, poetisch umschriebener Wettkampf, wer am meisten leidet und wessen Schuld es ist.
Ein absolutes Muss für alle, die Klassiker lieben, für alle anderen wahrscheinlich etwas anstrengend.
Ein absolutes Muss für alle, die Klassiker lieben, für alle anderen wahrscheinlich etwas anstrengend.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder