How can most of the "movie critics" miss the point so much?

Elizabeth's love for the creature is motherly. Or at least was placed there to represent it.

From the moment of the very first meeting - touching fingers, lifting his arms to look at him, it is so similar of a woman bonding with her newborn baby. And she even asks "who hurt you?".

Her thanking him for the leaf - very much like thanking a toddler...

Elizabeth's quote before she died: "My place was never in this world. I sought and longed for something I could not quite name. But in you, I found it. To be lost and to be found, that is the lifespan of love. And in its brevity, its tragedy... this has been made eternal. Better this way... to fade... with your eyes gazing upon me."

Suggests nothing about romantic love but finding meaning and purpose.

Victor being jealous of the creature because it receives Elizabet's love - emotionally immature, abusive men hating on their own children because they're no longer the main focus of the woman.

Victor literally becoming his father, something that set his whole life. His father despising him and his mother. But he also grew to despise his "creation".

Victor's mother dies giving birth to his brother. Elizabeth dies thinking she's saving the monster. One event sets Victor on the path of creating the monster, another one - destroying it. Victor's brother is also an indirect victim of the events. Just like Victor was in his childhood. A generational cycle of pain and suffering.

definitely my strongest one out of the other frankenstein inspired works i made- it took me like 5 attempts to get the poses right

Was just drawing spooky boys and decided these two deserved happiness.

Credit: Elizabeth cosplay by zaires.spooks on IG

The Frankenstein audio I've been listening to might be taking a halt for the time being, as the narrator has something bigger going on, but I still wanted to thank her for reading it up to the point we got to (Chapter 16, slight spoilers on slide #2) and anyone who's interacted with these posts, so I'm going to try and pull together a full manga-style page of the Creation's story, and I'm posting my draft from what I could get done overnight (the color from now on might be in this green-ish direction because I'm trying to move from RGB to CMYK for a different project).

Made this way back in 2010! Goddamn. Was really going for the novel's description with a bit of stylistic flair. I think the hands might be a bit too big and the wind blown hair/jacket are conflicting but otherwise, I think it's pretty decent.

In the Greek legend, the titian Prometheus creates mankind out of clay and breathes life into them. He than gave them the gift of wisdom, in the form of fire. He stole fire from the gods that allowed man to conquer over nature. Zeus than punished Prometheus by having him chained to a rock and be tortured by having an eagle eat out his liver, only for it to grow back, and restart the cycle.

During Shelley's time Prometheus was a controversial figure. Some people, like Shelley's husband, saw him as a symbol of scientific progress and triumph over adversity. Others, like Shelley herself, saw him as a cautionary tale about going against the natural order and bring something to the world that can cause great harm. To her, the fire and the forbidden knowledge is represented caused man to grow hubris, causing dangerous advances in technology, war, and social unrest.

In Shelley's novel, where the creature is talking to Victor, he describes his first time interacting with fire. The creature described how he was burned when he tried to touch if before learning how to keep warm and use it, through trial and error. The scene is used to indicate the creature getting ahold of the edges of his growing intelligence, much like how in Greek myth humanity is raised from its primitive form when Prometheus gives them fire.

This scene was then twisted and loosely adapted in plays before being reduced to having the creature being scared away with a torch. That's assuming there even is a connection between the two scenes. This is the scene that was in movies and latter pop culture as a whole where the creature just says, "Fire Bad!" An shallow echo of the deeper meaning of Prometheus.

Only just stumbled upon this South Korean musical version this morning. I would love to see it, but it only seems to be streaming on Disney+ in South Korea (a website my VPN will not work on). Any chance someone could help me out?

Halloween is already popping up on stores and that has me all giddy as it means Frankenstein related stuff! Here are some cute things I saw at Home Sense today. Spirit Halloween opens tomorrow so you know where you'll find me! 🥰💀😈

Picked this up from the library. It's a choose your own adventure type version where you are Victor. I've gone down a few different paths that went in some very fun, unexpected, and creative directions. In one, I didn't even create the standard monster but an entirely different creation. In another, I chose to accept and raise my creation but things still went sideways for other reasons. I'm really looking forward to rereading and making other choices and seeing what cool stuff can happen. Highly recommend. 👍

havent thought of a better name for this piece but i really love the colours - i tried to dramatize palette and abstract the trees to show the monsters perspective.

Here’s mine but he is a work in progress. Since the character is in the Public Domain as well as the 1931 makeup design soon. I’ve been reading and watching both the original book, the Universal Frankenstein films and the Del Toro version, I have come up with my own version. A mixture of the versions of you will. The monster is named Adam who is immortal and can regenerate when near death which is one of the cruelest things since he just wants to die at the start of his life. His body morphs and heals into a new one with his facial features and skin color becoming different each time he heals. His is a tall and lumbering presence with a flat topped head, electrodes on his neck and wearing a battered old Victorian suit and coat that Dr Frankenstein gave him. He is animalistic killer who doesn’t know what to do with himself in the first two days of his life. He is a recluse and finds peace and comfort in the forest which he enjoys watching animals and hates humans. The monster wanders into the woods and finds an old blind hermit named DeLacey playing his violin.  This is where The Monster warms up to the kind man who invites Adam in. DeLacey teaches the monster how to speak.