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A review by river24
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
3/5
Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?
This was not a long book and yet it was still much longer than it needed to be. I expected much more from this. I did love the concept and loved all the interactions between Victor Frankenstein and his monster, however a lot of the book is spent pursuing very little.
Am I thought to be the only criminal, when all human kind sinned against me?
I appreciate how fundamental this book is and I truly do love the themes presented, I just expected more from it. I loved the obsessive creator plagued by his own invention and the abhorred creature abandoned by his own creator. I loved the complexity of Frankenstein's monster's morality and loved the conversations where he confronted his Otherness. I adored these aspects of it, but it unfortunately wasn't enough to make me love the story.
It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.
Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?
This was not a long book and yet it was still much longer than it needed to be. I expected much more from this. I did love the concept and loved all the interactions between Victor Frankenstein and his monster, however a lot of the book is spent pursuing very little.
Am I thought to be the only criminal, when all human kind sinned against me?
I appreciate how fundamental this book is and I truly do love the themes presented, I just expected more from it. I loved the obsessive creator plagued by his own invention and the abhorred creature abandoned by his own creator. I loved the complexity of Frankenstein's monster's morality and loved the conversations where he confronted his Otherness. I adored these aspects of it, but it unfortunately wasn't enough to make me love the story.
It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.