#but listen Mary brought this deadbeat dad energy to gothic literature that was previously occupied by dead dads
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Why is it so funny to me that Frankenstein (the novel) was a vessel through which Mary Shelley sought to explore her own fears and anxieties about entering motherhood (and the potential of letting down her child/her child bringing harm unto others and it being her fault for not raising them better), and yet she somehow made her titular character the deadbeat dad of all time?
#girl was out here redefining the gothic horror genre and inventing the scifi genre#wrote one of the most influential and enduring pieces of literature to ever exist#and she also made the main character go out for cigarettes and never return to his undead monster son#love that for her legacy#I get that the point was her hyping herself up and saying she needs to be present for her child and be a good parent for them#and that Victor was the antithesis of who she wanted to be for her child#but listen Mary brought this deadbeat dad energy to gothic literature that was previously occupied by dead dads
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