I finished this yesterday, and I wanted to comment while it's still fresh.
First, Frankenstein seems like a big wuss. He spends about half the timeline of the book laid up in bed due to stress. I swear he has the constitution of a 90 year old woman with emphysema.
The other thing that really struck me was the idea of a creator's responsibility to their creation. Spoiler warning for this 200 universally known book.
When Frankenstein makes the monster, he pretty much leaves him to his own devices. Never once during the novel does he ever do anything helpful, nice, or supportive of his creature. The monster seems to exhibit the capacity for both affection and malice, and it seems that with a little attention and direction that the monster's killing spree would never have happened. So it's hard for me to differentiate how much culpability the monster should have and how much Frankenstein should have. I'm normally pretty avidly against trying to hold other people responsible for individual actions, but creating a monstrosity and casting it into the world seems to be the extreme that makes me question that.
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