what’s the plot of frankenstein pray tell :))
okay so basically it starts with this guy whose name escapes me. he wants to travel north, into like. icy territory for reasons. the entire book consists of letters he sends to his sister in england. he's up north when he comes across this emaciated motherfucker just. kinda there on the ice. the boat crew takes him in and once he's recovered, he tells his story, which is helpfully transcribed and also sent to the captain's sister. as you can probably guess, the guy on the ice is victor frankenstein, and he starts telling his entire life story which i am not going to tell because it's not important.
so victor is in college and he decides he wants to create life. by taking a bunch of corpse parts and sewing them together and then bringing them to life through something to do with electricity, which is actually not described. he spends days on end doing this, and when the final result opens its eyes, he freaks the fuck out because the color is wrong and runs out of his apartment, where he finds his childhood friend clerval (who is very good and i love him very much). together, they go back and find that the monster is gone. clerval then spends a good amount of time nursing victor back to health because he neglected to take care of himself while working on his project. of course.
everything's going pretty good, but then some things happen that i don't remember and victor goes home. more things happen, and someone is convicted of the murder of victor's brother. now, victor has a very good feeling that it's the monster. he knows it's the monster. he does not say that it was the monster. and the housemaid is executed.
eventually his dad says "hey why don't you marry your adopted sister?" and he's like "okay". OH WAIT SHIT. YEAH BEFORE THAT victor finds the monster and talks to him. it turns out that, after he was abandoned, he found an old house where some siblings lived with their blind father. he learns language from some books they dumped out, one of which was paradise lost, and he ends up relating to satan in that book because of course (paradise lost is. pretty good, i watched a summary of it). some time passes and eventually the monster starts getting lonely, and decides to visit the blind father when the kids aren't home. he ends up having a conversation with him but gets a little too clingy and the kids come home and kick him out. he burns the house down when they move out the next day. so the monster wanders into a town and comes across a bratty little kid who's like "how dare you talk to me like that i'm victor frankenstein's little brother". and the monster kills him out of rage.
so cut back to the present and victor is like "okay so what do you want". the monster wants him to make him a wife, someone just like him that understands him. and he says that if he doesn't do it he'll kill everyone victor ever loved. so vic gets to work on that, but realizes "wait i can't have two of these running around. what if they procreate???" and instead of just. not giving her ovaries, he dumps the whole project. and the monster is understandably pissed.
so on the night of victor's wedding, the monster kidnaps vic's wife. vic ends up chasing the monster all the way to the fucking north pole before just kinda. collapsing. and when he's done telling the story, victor dies of like 17 different kinds of exposure. and then the monster appears, says some words for the death of his creator, and then jumps out the boat window. and that's the end :]
