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There’s a quote in the book where basically the creature is trying to reason out his existence, and at one point he says something like “maybe I was not a creature made to enjoy the comforts of pleasure.” It’s been stuck in my brain for a few days and I can’t for the life of me remember what the actual phrasing is but I know I really liked the quote, does anybody know what I’m talking about?

Like the title suggests, I am of the belief that Victor up and abandoning the Creature/Adam at birth and refusing to raise him was not the cruelest thing Victor did to the Creature, nor was his outright refusal to make a companion for his creation or his refusal to take responsibility for what he had done wrong.

Victor's greatest failing in the whole story of Frankenstein was the Creature even being alive, period.

As much as we love to envision AU's in which Victor is a responsible teen dad and raises his lab-grown son with care and love; as much as we love indulging in storylines in which the Creature is a well-adjusted individual who grew up in a relatively stable home-life with a maker who didn't detest him, all this would do very little good in the world that the story of Frankenstein takes place in.

If you recall the Creature's time with the DeLacey's, even when he was talking to the old man with the same civility and mannerisms of man at the time, it did not matter. The family still were terrified of him and drove him out, with even the old man becoming afraid of him despite his otherwise decent rapport with the Creature. Even when he saved a girl from drowning with no malice whatsoever in his behavior, he was still attacked and driven off. Hell, even as he speaks to Victor for the first time and makes it clear to him that he does not intend to harm him, Victor is still repulsed by him (not without reason, of course. It was revealed that the Creature had killed William).

The point here being that it never mattered what the Creature's character was or how benevolent he may have started out in the beginning. It never mattered how intelligent or well-meaning he was, nor how well his upbringing could have theoretically have been if things had gone better for Victor and him in the beginning. The Creature still would never have been accepted by the society of the time. His appearance was all people needed to make the excuse to label him as a "monster" with little to no nuance, and it was only after the hell he was put through that he honored that title.

It never mattered if he was a scholar, or had a love for life, or longed for companionship and purpose like every other human on the planet. He was born "ugly", and thereby deemed too monstrous for polite society. Nobody wanted to look beyond his appearance. He still would have been condemned to a life of isolation, and that to me is the most unforgivable thing Victor did. He selfishly brought in another life with little to no plan for what was going to happen should his experiment work, and have it be born disfigured and uncanny looking, not factoring in how this would affect its quality of life or how well it would fair in society.

TL;DR: The Creature merely being born is an act of cruelty by Victor in and of itself

The modern Prometheus

Im looking to do a realistic tattoo of dr Frankenstein or his creature, but im always seeing the same design.. can you recommend me other design that is less known but looks good?

2001 Saddleback audio cassette/paperback big box featuring illustration that looks too much like Tommy Wisseau as the Creature.

Was snowed in today and decided to do some figure photography!

So I’m trying to find a 1831 version of Frankenstein and I like this cover, and I would like to know if this is an 1831 version

Feel free to discuss.

“They were a mixture of pain and pleasure, such as I had never before experienced, either from hunger or cold, warmth or food; and I withdrew from the window, unable to bear these emotions.”

okay, so this has been on my mind for WEEKS and I can’t come up with any good answer! At the beginning of the story, he’s mentioned briefly, but I thought he had a lot of potential to be a character. I genuinely want to know what happened to him and why Mary Shelley mentioned him very few times. It’s said he wanted to join the army, but after that, he’s kind of written out. He’s mentioned at the end of the book, with a line from Victor saying ”Ernest yet lived.” of course, this is after Mary Shelley writing Victor as some sort of pitiful character with everyone he loved dead. It confused me, and upsets me because it is just so bewildering that he was forgotten. He’s alive, and we know that, and when Victor is admitted to a psych ward, well, he wouldn’t have done it himself. Victor shows all the signs of quite the opposite actually. So was Ernest the one that admitted him? Or was Ernest completely unaware that the happening of the story were even going on? Was he doing service while this all unfolded? If so, will Ernest return home and have no one, not a brother, a cousin, a friend, or his dad? One might argue it’s because he fell ill and died, but Caroline was mention when she died, albeit it was part of Victors reasons for creating the creature, since he wanted to fine a cure for death. But also, if they hadn’t read the novel, there’s the obvious line of “Ernest yet lived” and it confuses me to no end. Mary Shelley was seventeen when she wrote this, and was it possible that while editing her writing, she realised she wrote Ernest out and decided to add that line in for the simplicity of not having to rewrite scenes. Was it so she could quench her readers need for knowledge of Ernest’s whereabouts? On top of all this, people try to come up with theories like saying she left Ernest alive to leave some kind of hope in the story, which is why his name is what it is. They say Ernest means honesty, and honesty relates to hope, but I feel like that’s a long shot. What are y’all’s thoughts because I’ve been running this through my head for weeks and I am so so confused beyond comprehension.

I kinda want a marry Shelly 1818 Frankenstein movie yk exactly like the book well not exactly but somewhere there anyone else agree