Vintage Venom

if victor ever requited walton’s love for him (be it platonic or romantic) i think walton would fall LESS in love. i think walton just loves romanticizing the unobtainable, he chases the unknown, and that’s why he hangs all his hopes on things he feasibly cannot reach - first becoming a famous poet, then sailing to the arctic, and then victor, who is dying and too hung up on his past to love again.

also, if victor HAD lived long enough to recove and be well again, i think walton would have lost interest in victor. victor and walton’s relationship was built and founded primarily on their dynamic as sick and caretaker, and without it i’m not sure walton would know what to do with himself, or he would become overbearing to compensate

Victor didn't abandon the creation out of malice. He got sick; he was a young college student that didn't even take care of himself while working on his project, how could he take care of his creation?

The creation, rightfully, gets a lot of the sympathy. So much was out of his control, since the person who should have guided him could not do that for him. And yet, he is just as flawed as Victor!

Victor and his creation both act rashly without thinking things through. They're both sensitive and in love with nature. They're both extremely stubborn and self-destructive. They are the same.

La Mode nationale, no. 2, 15 janvier 1898, Paris. No. 1. (1) Collet et toque. Chapeau de la Maison Jane, 47, rue Lafayette. Jaquette et chapeau. Jaquette de la Maison Buisson, 83, rue Lafayette. Chapeau de la Maison Dreyfus, 39 bis, rue de Châteaudun. Bibliothèque nationale de France

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