#frankenstein by mary shelley

[frankenfartstein]

henry !

[mourningmaybells]

explaining to my brother that Frankenstein is a Swiss Christian (The “stein” in “Frankenstein” led him to believe Victor was Jewish-German) but his son, the creature, is Catholic because he read Paradise Lost awhile after being born and became French after developing a parasocial educational relationship with the Delaceys

Edit:

#this is incredibly funny#but I do have to clarify that paradise lost is not catholic#John Milton was a Protestant and served in the very puritan Cromwell government after the civil war#I will say paradise lost as a text keeps running into big theological issues and imo doesn’t really resolve them#like the issue of predestination versus free will comes up repeatedly and it really feels like Milton writing himself into a corner#which I gotta say!! is so interesting and relevant to the creature#both our understanding of him and his own understanding of himself#and also the issue paradise lost tries to resolve of how an all knowing all powerful god could ‘let’ the fall happen#compared to how the text handles Victors responsibility for his creation…..so rich!!!!#but yeah given the Protestantism of paradise lost and the presumed Catholicism of the de Lacey’s the creature has gotta have odd theology#I would assume he’d identify more with the catholic family he was ‘raised’ by?#which supports your interpretation here and preserves the comedy#but the mixed theology honestly adds to the creature’s existence as an amalgam which is also VERY interesting#anyway love this very much I have to revisit both texts through this lens now lol

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Thank you for the theology and history lesson. I think I just considered him Catholic because he hates himself on a biblical level.

[liesmyth]

The Locked Tomb + Frankenstein [1/?]

[canon-in-too-deep]

Free Frankenstein Typeset

So I did a typeset for Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Well, typeset(s). I went through about three different versions trying to figure out a style or a theme, before I finally, finally settled on anatomical asses 😆. Anyway, this half letter (letter folio) typeset is FREE for your personal use! Bookbind it, print it out and burn it, what have you. Just please leave credit and consider dropping a like/reblog if you can!

Link:

IM FELL English used for the body font. IM FELL series is definitely one of my favorites for almost everything. And for the "body" bodies, I used some wonderful public domain illustrations by Reijer Stolk I found on rawpixel.com.

(Also if you downloaded any of my other typesets, I updated them in the google drive cause I forgot some minor stuff.)

[binghe-malewife-goals]

Victor Frankenstein, encountering villagers in the arctic, ex.;

[howlsmovinglibrary]

Every time I teach Frankenstein, I'm just like... wow. Elizabeth's life fucking sucks. She is an orphan who is literally taken away from her 'rustic' peasant foster parents by rich aristocrats because she is 'a child fairer than a pictured cherub', and so they feel she deserves to live with rich people. She becomes Victor Frankenstein's 'more than sister', 'beautiful adored companion of all [his] occupations and pleasures'. It is automatically assumed by everyone around her that she will marry him. He 'looks upon Elizabeth as mine' before they've even reached adulthood. He marries her, refuses to tell her anything about what he's done until the day after the wedding because he assumes his Creature is going to murder him, and then she's murdered in his stead.

Anyway, all I'm saying is that Frankenstein is ripe for a girlboss, good-for-her retelling because Elizabeth Frankenstein née Lavenza deserved better, and if I was adopted into a family solely to become their son's pretty wife I would maybe let myself get a little murderous about it.

[lilysinthemourning]

Just had a guy argue with me about Frankenstein, like I don’t have a whole collection dedicated to “The Creature” and 6 different copies of it

[marscantread]

[justbooksstuff]

Remember me with affection, should you never hear from me again

-Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

[frankenfartstein]

thought abt vic + henry a little extra today

posting the lineart too bc i like how they turned out :]

[mourningmaybells]

based

[liesmyth]

The Locked Tomb + Frankenstein [3/?]

Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir / Frankenstein (1994), screenplay / Liberty, Equality, Monstrosity: Revolutionizing the Family in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, David A. Hedrich Hirsch

[mossmx]

btw update on reading Frankentesin, Victor is like asdfghjkl (but mhh he kind of gets a pass bc he's young and stupid), I have no idea if he's right about the murderers but I'm interested to see!

[abomnibus]

What are your Top 5 favorite books?

Our utmost favorite books tends to shift around depending upon the wind, but as of this moment, in no particular order:

Wurthering Heights, by Emily Brontë.

Homo Deus, by Yuval Harari.

Les Fleur Du Mal, by Charles Baudelaire.

Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep, by Philip K. Dick.

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander.

Not technically a book but honorable mention to The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, by Stephen Adly Guirgis.

[kikimaymay]

Oh my god

victor frankenstein had post partum depression

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