Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou?” Isaiah 45:9
I recently attended a library discussion regarding Mary Shelley's novel and Carl Laemmle Jr.'s movie.
The novel depicts Frankenstein entirely abandoning The Creation.
One participant comment: "The monster didn't ask for life."
My reply: "None of us did! Please raise your hand if you asked to be placed on this earth?!"
No raised hands of course!
"That's what I thought! Well, I myself never asked to be here!"
At least in the movie Colin Clive's character did spend SOME TIME with that of Boris Karloff!
Shelley was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin in 1797. Her mother died a few weeks after the birth and her father William Godwin was left to raise both Shelley and Shelley's mother's elder daughter Frances "Fanny" Imlay.
Before Shelley attained modern school age her father married one Mary Jane Clairmont, born Mary Jane Devial.... Mary Jane Godwin - Wikipedia
Clairmont herself had two children from previous relationships: Claire Clairmont - Wikipedia and one Charles Clairmont. The respective fathers were:
Sir John Lethbridge, 1st Baronet - Wikipedia and Charles Abram Marc Gaulis, "a merchant and member of a prominent Swiss family, whom [Mary Jane Clairmont] met in Cádiz."
The new Mr. and Ms. Godwin produced one child together, son William Godwin the Younger - Wikipedia.
The household now consisted of five children, none of whom were full siblings.
Pretty alternative for an 1803 British household...certainly light years away from my own 1965-1980 childhood experiences!
And people actually wonder how a female in her late teenage years could compose such a work?
At present I will decline to mention the "adult adventures" of stepsisters Mary Shelley and Claire Clairmont.
Mary Shelley (film) - Wikipedia
Another day perhaps!
But back to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein! Senior year of high school I composed a "novel appreciation" aka book report regarding the tome. I don't recall my eventual grade, but I vividly remember my amazement upon discovering that Victor Frankenstein constructed The Creature at University of Ingolstadt - Wikipedia; the birthplace and childhood domicile of my mother!
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I don't recall mentioning that fact to any of my classmates; it would have become more fodder for those goddamn bullies....😠
From ages eight to seventeen each time I left my residence the outside climate of hostility and disrespect necessitated that I be exceedingly careful regarding my thoughts and actions.
But that is also another day's post....🤔
The novel bore marked similarity to Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights!"
Both novels are "frame stories" Frame story - Wikipedia.
They begin with one's character's narrative and then commence with another's character's very long missive: In "Frankenstein" Naval Captain Robert Walton begins the story, later relinquished to Victor Frankenstein; "Wuthering Heights" begins first person via Heathcliff's new tenant "Mr. Lockwood" (first name never revealed), then is surrendered to domestic servant Ellen "Nelly" Dean.
Eventually all results in the 1931 Carl Laemmel Jr motion picture directed by James Whale and featuring Boris Karloff:
Frankenstein (1931 film) - Wikipedia
Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou?” Isaiah 45:9
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Watch out for Artificial Intelligence!
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