Frankenstein Criticism (AO3)
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- Treat a person ill, and he will become wicked
- The author expels her own guilt both for having caused her mother's death and for having failed to produce a healthy son for Percy
- Victor Frankenstein is an example of the Romantic over-reacher, who transgresses boundaries between the human and the divine
- [Walton] seems to be a very shadowy double of Victor Frankenstein in many ways
- [Shelley] thought these people had crossed a line, but she had a lot of admiration for scientific thought in general
- The creatures initial innocence suggests you are not born a monster
- For Shelley, body is fate... it is ugliness that fuels the monster's social exclusion
- Mother's in Frankenstein are categorically dead because their biological function is... defiled
- The monster... is not a fully formed individual, but an "abortion"
- The creatures desire for companionship is one of his most human qualities - Punter
- Frankenstein is searching after forbidden knowledge - Punter
- Frankenstein's main sin is not his act of creation, but his failure to take responsibility for what he produces - Punter
- The boundaries between the human and the monster in Frankenstein remain problematically blurred - Williams
- Henry is a model of conjoined masculine and feminine traits - Smith
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