A review by potterpav
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Shelley

adventurous challenging dark reflective sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

me rating a classic only 3 stars should be a crime punishable by death but this is my storygraph and i get to be brutally honest. victor frankenstein is a very intriguing character to me because although at first i really didn't like him and his intense lack of compassion and selfishness, by the end i felt quite bad for him. he watched his mother die an awful death as a teenager and then wanted to create life from death... and then that life killed everyone he loved. is that not at least a little bit sad? yeah it was his fault that the reanimated life killed them all but idk. its a bit more complex to me than "victor = bad; frankenstein's creature = good" because both sides were guilty  parties whilst also being human enough to sympathise and see the complexities of their characters. 2.5 stars because even though it was only like 200 pages, it was just way too slow. so slow. sorry mary babe your name will forever be remembered in history, there were just a few too many words xx
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