If I made a frankenstein film i would prefer to keep Victor's father kind and his idyllic childhood intact. i love the comparison to Eden and how dangerous knowledge leads him out

I prefer the way Mary Shelley wrote him. It's entirely his fault. You cannot hang his failures on an abusive father and cold childhood

No one can excuse him. No one can take the blame for him. He knew he was damning the Creature and chose it with relish. He knew he was endangering the lives of everyone around him and still did what he did

Elizabeth and Henry Clerval are important because they show nothing touches him but the Creature. Elizabeth was his bride and Clerval his best friend and he never told them and instead *constantly ignored them*, instead only seeing the Creature, as the Creature only saw him

Victor has been engaged to Elizabeth Lavenza since childhood and constantly avoids or abandons her and their marriage is implied to only take place as a way to bait the Creature

It is important to me that you know that Clerval and Elizabeth are canon fodder in the book

Victor is somewhere between 20-24 when he creates the Creature in a manic episode, alone. in his attic apartment in Ingolstadt. He is not a surgeon, a lecturer, and has received no distinction in academics

He is roughly the age Mary Shelley was when she wrote Frankenstein (19)

He was heavily inspired by her husband, Percy Shelley, who frequently used Victor as a pen name, and thus probably looks like this portrait of Percy, painted in 1819, one year after the publication of Frankenstein

Victor Frankenstein is a spoiled brat twink who never once shows an OUNCE of heterosexuality and it's important to me that you know this