- if creature is Adam/the devil, does that make Frankenstein God? If so, he’s a very out-of-control god – inverse of Paradise Lost – but then again Victor isn’t God
- what happens when humans play god – climate, something that humans can’t control
- Themes of mental illness?
- Thinking about creature as an aspect of VF that he doesn’t want to face
- When he calls the creature daemon, he’s putting the creature in such a negative light – does that make the creator also a daemon?
- When creature asks for a female companion
- When VF destroys the female creature, parallels to Eve? Eve as Adam’s downfall – fear of reproduction, new race of creatures – scared that female creature might not like creature, might not abide by creature’s promise
- Can we have sympathy for creature despite his crimes?
- Begins life with innocence and curiosity
- VF as father figure with moral responsibility to creature’s wellbeing
- Parallel to VF’s experiences with his own father
- Fear of creature gaining intelligence, becoming more social, learning language, etc.
- Chain reaction of moral culpability
- Sympathy vs. compassion vs. pity
- Frame narrative – why does the story begin and end with Walton?
- Observations – outsider – similar to travel narratives
- Affirms the validity of the tale – creates a way for us to suspend our disbelief – he doubts the story so we don’t have to
- We’re made aware of another manuscript version that we don’t have access to
