My thoughts on Frankenstein:

(This is incredibly long)

• Victor is definitely autistic or something right?
• It’s honestly shocking to me how much of the book was just describing the scenery.
• Also, because I self project constantly, Victor seems kinda Ace to me, maybe Aro with a QPR with Henry, but that might be actual romance.
• Kinda surprised that no one ever stops Victor to ask why he’s collecting so many body parts, they’re just like “eh, Victor’s experimenting on corpses again, I guess.”
• Absolutely wild for Caroline to adopt a child for the sole purpose of “gifting” her to her son.
• I wish I could be motivated in to a hyper-focused frenzy where I actually complete my projects, maybe not for 2 years though.
• Alright time for all my unpopular opinions. (this will likely be very long)
• Y'all are babygirl-ifying the Creature way too much. My dude murdered at least 4 people. (Technically murdered 3 and framed the 4th for murder.)
• Hey, remember when the Creature murdered a child? Yeah, that happened.
• Or when he framed a woman for murder, knowing full well what would likely happen to her? (The Creature didn’t even know she had any connection to Victor, he fully decided to frame her because of the idea that she would reject him)
• or when he murdered 2 people just because Victor cared about them?
• I’m not saying the the Creature isn’t sympathetic, and it really is unfair that everyone shuns him, but that doesn’t mean he gets a “Murder innocents” pass.
• On a similar note, and this is maybe just me, but Victor is way more sympathetic than anyone gives him credit for.
• When he made the Creature he was a dumb kid that was messing with things he really shouldn’t have, but he was grieving his mother and coping very poorly.
• So he thinks “what if I could bring her back?” or at least “Maybe I can prevent losing anyone else” so he tries “”“Playing God”“” but it’s not because he has a god complex, he’s mourning a loss and is doing anything to not think about it while also trying something that might prevent such loss in the future.
• I do think he’s a bit self-centered, but not in a “I’m superior” way , more in a “Why is this happening to me?” way that makes him forget others’ perspectives or how his actions may affect them.
• I don’t think he’s always thinking about how every other person is dumber than him or how great he is.
• I do think he has a very strong desire to have his achievements seen and known, because for quite a while everyone dismissed his interests. (Which, just saying, can really do some damage on a kid)
• Should Victor not have abandoned the Creature? Yes, but he also didn’t exactly have the mental or emotional capacity to care for the Creature at that time.
• When the Creature awoke, Victor was faced with the reality of what he was doing; he wasn’t bringing someone back to life, he was creating something else entirely, so he ran. And afterwards the Creature was gone, and then Victor had a psychotic break for like several months. He wasn’t really in peak parent mode then.
• (Side tangent, but any of those “I wouldn’t run from the Creature” people are absolutely lying, you’re really going to react calmly to a 8ft shambling monster made from dead bodies?)
• Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying Victor is entirely innocent, but there’s a lot of things that he get’s blamed for that were not his fault.
• Not one of the deaths in the book are Victor’s fault.
• William died because he screamed and revealed his family name, so the Creature killed him to hurt Victor.
• Justine died because the Creature framed her because he thought she would reject him and because she was pressured in to pleading guilty.
• Henry died because the Creature wanted to hurt Victor.
• Elizabeth died because the Creature wanted to hurt Victor.
• If you think any of those deaths are Victor’s fault, then you’re victim blaming.
• Yes, the Creature likely wouldn’t have done any of that had Victor not ran, but you know what else would have prevented those deaths? If the Creature didn’t kill them.
• The Creature is an incredibly intelligent being, by the time he kills William he has learned enough to properly frame a woman for murder.
• You can not say he accidentally killed William, he knows what death is.
• He didn’t accidentally frame Justine for said murder.
• He didn’t just so happen to kill Henry because he got caught off guard by him.
• He wasn’t looking for Victor to kill on the wedding day.
• He chose to kill every single one of them, and to put all the blame on Victor is unfair to Victor and the Creature.
• The Creature is his own person, which means he also needs to be held responsible for his actions.
• You can understand and sympathize with the Creature, but that doesn’t mean he’s infallible.
• The Creature has every right to be mad at the world, his first experience in the world is being abandoned by the one who gave him life, and then he is constantly shunned, feared, and hated for the rest of his life, it’s not right.
• But that doesn’t mean you murder people, or if he had to, he should have killed Victor, the person that actually wronged him.
• And listen, I understand every minority feels a kinship with the Creature, but for me, there’s something about Victor that is so unbearably relatable.
• The thing about Victor is that he has people that care for him, but none of them understand him in the slightest, even Henry, he may love Victor but I don’t think he really understood him all the time.
• So you have Victor, who has people who care for him and who he cares for in return, trying his best to act normal, to pretend there’s nothing wrong.
• He’s trying so, so hard not to worry the people he cares for, but on the inside he’s miserable, paranoid, and overall just incredibly mentally unwell.
• And that is something that is just so intriguing to me. (Not saying the Creature isn’t also very nuanced and complex, just that Victor scratches some itch in my brain.)

Anyway, this is already very long, I honestly have more I could say about it, but this is good for now.