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at the end of the day i think what this post is missing is an understanding that situations are not black or white. just because victor isn't bad doesn't mean he's good.
victor is flawed and he makes bad decisions that ultimately hurt those around him for very real and valid reasons.
OP has made the leap that, because victor isn't inherently bad, he is inherently good/right. then this is taken a step further by saying that because victor is good, adam must be bad. this point is justified through a series of entirely misconstrued and twisted retellings of the events in the book.
adam is flawed and he makes bad decisions that ultimately hurt those around him for very real and valid reasons.
they are both just guys -- humans living their lives and being flawed and hurting people.
I'm so protective of Victor Frankenstein, because everyone is like "the creature is actually completely right and he should have just made a second creature and it would be fine" or "he shouldn't have abandoned his creation" and like, come on.
First of all, he didn't abandoned the creature. He basically spent 9 months obsessing of creating this thing because (a) his mother died and he developed a morbid fascination with death to cope and (b) his father, instead of explaining why alchemy was a bad idea, just dismissed his interest out of hand. But the thing was that it wasn't //actually// supposed to work. And he also isn't eating or sleeping and he is mentally Not Well. But then the creature opens it's eyes and it's terrifying because even though it should be beautiful, being made of beautiful parts, it is still made of fucking corpses.
So, Victor passes the fuck out and wakes up after the creature has escaped. And then he's like, wtf was that?? Am I going insane?? He doesn't go looking for the creature because he thinks he made it up in his head. I think his friend was also like, "hey, dude, I think you just have a fever."
And then he finds out that his 6yo brother has been MURDERED and his childhood friend is accused of having killed the child, so he goes home. He can't even say, "hey, I think I made a monster that did this" because no one will believe him. And this creature shows up and tells him that it killed his brother simply because it hated Victor. It killed a young child because it wanted to hurt Victor. Now it wants Victor to make a second creature like the first.
And, for the record, the creature has been having a hard time because its a giant walking corpse and people aren't giving it a chance to prove that it can read Shakespeare. Here's the thing. The creature is smart. It reads classic literature. It speaks well. It is also cunning. After snapping William's neck, it frames Justine by slipping William's gold locket in her apron pocket.
Victor takes responsibility for this. He is aware at this point that he has fucked around and found out. He feels guilty about his little brother's death, and the execution of his friend. He agrees to create a second creature out of fear, but then decides that he will accept his fate and let the creature kill him because he is afraid that, given how terribly the first creature turned out, he will be endangering more people. What he didn't count on was that the creature would not actually kill him (he is its only shot at getting a companion, after all) and would instead kill his best friend and his wife.
The creature is lonely, but it's first response to rejection was not to seek its creator and ask for a companion. Its response was to murder people weaker than it, then seek out a companion from Victor through threats of violence. Why would he want to help it at that point? Why would he trust it?
Modern Prometheus
Happy (somewhat belated) Halloween!
I originally planned something more elaborate, but in the end I had to settle for this rather quick doodle of Frankenstein, as I am currently a bit short on time. (Hence also the void background and lack of details in this painting)
(Alternative version & close-ups)
~ spoilers for eldermourne below ~
zirk virvain is just the archetype of the mad Victorian scientist but. morally good. like. he drinks piss. he has mommy issues and a gun. his experiments give him free ombre hair dye. he injects sludge into his friends. he got beat up by 40 year old children. twice. he chews on a stirring rod during autopsies. he had sex through a magic bag one time. he found the cure to death. he didn't even bother testing it he just straight up died and it worked. he technically didn't kill god but his friends killed god's daughter which is close enough.
Honestly I've never had a bigger want to become a movie director than when thinking about making a Frankenstein adaptation THAT ACTUALLY KEEPS EVERYTHING INTERESTING ABOUT THE SOURCE MATERIAL
I daydream about this
I NEED an adaptation that actually goes into it. Show the fucked up family stuff while Victor narrates it aa idyllic, SHOW VICTOR BEING 19-21 WHILE MAKING THE CREATURE, show the Creature learning to speak from the Delaceys, show his worldview being entirely shaped by paradise lost and the ONE romantic relationship he saw giving him the bride idea, show Victor being ill, disabled, traumatized, go into his internal conflict, show the fucked up nature of Justine's trial, how Victor becomes more aware that he'll be perceived as crazy if he speaks up every second of it, how the law is corrupt and sentences by a judge can have been coerced and say nothing about the moral standing of the victim, especially when also bringing religion into the mix, how the law continues to be fucked when Victor is jailed after Henry's death, a shell of a man he used to be, and taken out by his father because he has influence, show Victor's bond with Henry, with Elizabeth, explore the messy and disturbing relationship of Victor and Elizabeth where they always saw each other as siblings but were also promised to one another by Caroline ever since Elizabeth arrived, how Caroline manipulated Elizabeth to basically relive her own trauma, how her dying wish left them tied into something that neither of them expresses real want for in the whole book
THERE'S SO FUCKING MUCH
so I don't 100% know how making posts works here but if you see this caption I've succeeded I guess
first post! is frankenstein art because yes.
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[2023 Mini Edit Essay: This is such a relic oh gosh. Okay, I feel this is worth discussing when looking back— it's not clear here, but although Justine's complexion appears a little darker than the other characters, she was still supposed to read as white in this piece. It doesn't help that the others are extremely pale (this Clerval was just based on a random existing design I had seen, and not my own yet). As such, Justine had much more tanned, sun-kissed skin and a naturally rich undertone, as if she enjoyed spending time outdoors. I say this because if Justine were to be seen as the only non-white character in this image, it would perpetuate a harmful racial implication, considering she's a household maid and is unjustly executed.
I experimented further with her design and then regrettably considered her being a POC for a while slightly later (being biracial, with Indian and white heritage), before I soon recognised the above problems. Even though she wasn't the only non-white character in my designs, the issues still stood. I had designed her with no malicious intent, but I messed up and didn't consider my actions regardless. Of course, it goes without saying that artists who are POC have every right to present her character this way to explore her identity: but as a white person, it's my job to be conscious of my choices, particularly when the topic of her race is not part of the story.
I moved my design away from this; she now had a similar, tanned complexion to Elizabeth, only with cooler undertones. After these changes, I ended up adapting this old design into an OC instead, and again returned to the drawing board. With this second try, I ensured the newer Justine had no chance of being interpreted as anything other than white by lightening her tan and hair. I soon stopped drawing Frankenstein art anyway, but felt this was all worth mentioning. I apologise again, and hope it's clear this initial drawing was not part of the later choice I made. Thank you for reading!]
OMG...AAAAAAAAAAAAH
THIS LOOKS SO AMAZING YOUR ART STYLE IS INCREDIBLE 🥺🥺....I Am Looking Directly At It......😭
on that note! if you would care to bestow upon me your victors I'd like to doodle them :^D
Frankenstein Chapter 10 summary
[ID: A digital comic with two square panels, drawn in a cartoon style. Panel 1 shows Victor Frankenstein, frowning and speaking towards the viewer as if there’s somebody before him: ‘I beg your pardon?’. Panel 2 shows the Creature responding, looking down disdainfully: ‘Then beg.’ /End ID]
theres literally like 2 active people in the frankenweenie fandom but i need them 2 people to turn their listening ears on and hear me out
ive just finished rewatching it because that movie is currently carrying my child and has my ring on its finger and ive been obsessing over the kids relationships with their animals after they are brought back
like how the animals never hurt the kids that owned them ( intentionally )
LIKE.
like shelley couldve eaten toshiaki right then n there when he was on the side of the ferris wheel, but she DIDNT. instead, she just carried him abit until victor electrocured her again where she dropped him and dipped
or how colossus, the most ANGRIEST looking animal ive ever seen before, couldve bit the shit out of nassor but instead just let him carry him around to the carnival
the only reason i think mr. whiskers was being a knobhead was because he was mixed with a bat, and even if he was feral he never intentionally or hurt weird girl, except for swiping at her
and he literally nicked persephone and was swiping at else n persephone before bodyslamming victor and kicking his ass before sparky got to him
and the rat and sea monkeys were only dickheads because they didnt have any owners
LIKE.
LIKE????
The monster after Frankenstein sees him wake up and decides to fuck off:
do you guys ever like something so much it makes you cry (frankenstein frankenstein frankenstein frankenstein frankenstein fr
Alright so we have captain Walton writing a letter to his sister about vicotor who’s telling Walton about his father who was telling victor(atleast I’m assuming this guys is victor) about his mother, in this book written by Mary Shelly.
What an onion of a story.
I did not expect to get two new kins when I started reading this book. I relate to Walton and Victor to a terrifying degree. Send help.
"You throw a torch into a pile of buildings, and when they are consumed, you sit among the ruins and lament the fall."
- Robert Walton
Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus
Frankenstein fanart!!
"Have my murderous machinations deprived you also, my dearest Henry, of life?"
-Victor Frankenstein while trying to prove he hasn't killed this man
Happy Wednesday, here's a Frankenstein sketch.
Where were you on September 11 2001?
Probably being dead, because I was yet to be born yet. Lol.
Happy Wednesday!♡