Great review; fascinating video. It's such a great story that it makes me wonder why the film producers always want to change up and dumb down things so much when they make Frankenstein movies.

I finished reading the book today; and the overwhelming takeaway impression throughout the entire reading process is this is the saddest story I've ever read in my entire life. The full setting is saturated with the beauty of nature, the curiosity of life and the undeniable quest for knowledge. The backstory of the monster is as beautiful as it is heartbreaking; and everything you discussed in your review is equally thought-provoking. I am so glad that I finally read FRANKENSTEIN. What a great book!

I was a non-fiction reader almost exclusively. Thank you for, "Fiction is where you explore yourself."

I like the analysis, and the book, especially the earlier edition before Shelley revised it. My main problem with the book are the huge plot holes. To kill Clerval, the monster would have had to leave the northern island, find him, bring him with him to the coast, row to Ireland, and dump the body in the place where Frankenstein would end up after having been lost at sea for one night. So, although he can’t travel during the day, he manages this trip (and this foresight of what he could not have known), in less than a day. Without flying, you can’t do that trip in that amount of time using regular transportation. On top of that, Victor goes to England and Scotland because he needs to consult with some people who can help him in achieving the project of making the mate. But Victor is the only one who knows this process, and he has already done it (he says). So what did he need the advice for. And, after Clerval’s death, he is arrested. But after Elizabeth’s death, there is no suspicion of him? Both Clerval and Elizabeth were strangled. Victor, to others, is the common connection. How to explain these? The monster never existed. Victor failed in his experiments, but couldn’t accept the failure and goes insane. There is lots of evidence in the book that he is insane, so that’s not a stretch. But here is the problem with my explanation: it can’t account nicely for William’s death, since Victor is still away at the time. Thus there are serious problems and inconsistencies with either reading. So maybe the whole narrative is an invention of the captain to excuse his failure to pursue his dream of finding the Northwest Passage? His decision ends up being he opposite of what Victor did. He abandons progress and the quest for knowledge in order to preserve the life of his crew. The rest is simply an invention, even within the world. I would love it if someone could provide an explanation that makes sense of Victor’s story, but there is simply too much that Shelley would have known better about to simply discard it as a writer taking liberties.

I just finished reading for Frankenstein for the 4th time over the decades. My experience of the novel improves with each reading. I love your reviews and your recommendations about reading. Thank you!

I read Frankenstein ages ago but never stopped to think about the deaths caused by the monster (although you have to wonder who bears the ultimate responsibility for them). I think there's something even darker or perhaps more encompassing about those deaths - for instance, the murder of the boy is the death of innocence. I remember feeling compassion for the monster as a being who was the way he was because of a lack of love from his creator. Time to read it again, I think! Thanks so much for these reviews - they're so engaging and are prompting me not only to re-read some books that I didn't get much out of the first time around, but to expand my reading horizons

Just finished this today. I wasn't sure how I felt about until the end, but I'm glad I read it. I kept waiting for Victor to accept responsibility for his pride and folly, but I think at the very end he finally got it to a degree. The monster was heartbreaking.

Terrific and insightful review of Frankenstein. Mary Shelley impressed me with her thoughtful warning about human pride. I will read it again :)

This book should become wayy more relevant today than any other time before Chatgpt gets out of hand

I read it because you recommend it in anohter video. I can't believe how amazig it is. It became one of my favorite books of all time. I cant thank you enough for your recommendation.

Great review, I love this book 🙌🏻🙌🏻 Very good points and very well put 📖 by the way, I absolutely love your intro☺️✨

I just recently read the book or rather re-read it after 25 years. As I have nobody to discuss it I enjoyed this video very much. For me, another key idea in this book was the consequences of what can happen when you become completely obsessed with something, losing sight of perspective. The monster that is obsessed with making friends. Forcing love. Frankenstein who is obsessed with playing God, but later obsessed with destroying this monster and actually only causes more mischief in the process. Whatever we do, as soon as we are obsessed with an idea and it becomes our only goal, regardless of any loss, we have lost a piece of our humanity. In the end, the question remains. Is it worth it?

Absolutely spot on! Fantastic review! The Faustian spirit is still alive and well, and hubris only continues to inflate us further as we think we have a handle over the natural world as we reduce the world to the narrow confines of our methods. Such a sadly misunderstood novel!

Great video Tristan. Really sums up the themes of the novel.

This is wonderful! There is a single sentence that gives hints that he used eccentricity. Or am I remembering that wrong. The term "instruments of life" I think was used. Maybe that is what I am thinking. The comments on why Shelley had the women murdered is a really interesting thought--taking out the humanity to be purely rational. I don't believe I have heard that before. Completely agree with your final comments on the limitations of science. I will definitely be checking out more from this channel! Thank you! 😊😊

I have read this book several times. I enjoyed your insight on the themes and they are actually in line with my original conclusions. Thank you for your channel.

Hi Tristan, thanks so much for this in depth analysis. I truly enjoyed it and learned quite a bit from it. Shelley specifically indicated that Frankenstein is a modern retelling of Prometheus. This is something that I have looked into in an effort to better understand the story. I'd love to see you do a second, or follow on, video that explores this. I really do value the your take on things related to literature.

I loved Frankenstein and I loved this review!

Really enjoyed this analysis and the tie-in with recent events. The protagonist frustrated me SO much, haha. I didn't love the book, but I will give it another try in the future. :)

Thank your for this! I know I read it in high school but barely remember. Reading it decades later now during October and was looking for a good discussion about it.

Thanks so much for this vid. So true what you say about the human factor. Alas, I see us forging ahead in the same way

You absolutely nailed it, that key sentence about becoming a creator has got God's pointy finger hovering over it just waiting to shoot lighting. Fantastic choice of quote 😄👍🥳

I agree with every single word.

Wow awesome review you inspire to read that book👌👌👌👌🤗🤗🤗

Love the review! Thank you :)

Found your channel on my recommended right after I finished Frankenstein, now I'm absolutely addicted, I hope you review dracula at some point as it's the book I'm reading currently

Excellent analysis. The idea of unintended consequences is more and more important today. It’s kind of a crushing idea, really: makes one afraid of most new developments. I absolutely love this book. I was surprised on my first reading, having seen the 1930’s movie many times. And the book is so much better than any of the adaptations. It seemed to me that Frankenstein wanted, in fact, to be God, just like many moderns who believe that man’s technology can do anything, and thus God becomes not only irrelevant, but unnecessary. And it can, but Man can’t possibly see the ramifications and how to avoid trouble down the road. Anyway. Do you think that Shelley was influenced at all by the Jewish legends of the Golem? Thanks, Tristan.

One of my favourite novels. Great review. Will share with my 17 year old daughter. She hated it ons her first read. Maybe you can change her mind.

I read Frankenstein two or three years ago, I liked it. A book that made me think. First and foremost, was that a human being wanted to be God. He believed that he was able to create a perfect creature, suggesting that God's creations isn't. Another thing that left impact on me was how Frankenstein immediately rejected his creation. At the end I felt pity for the monster, I know what he did was extremely wrong but the way I perceived the monster was that he wanted to be accepted the way "he" was and also be loved. It was put in the world and immediately was abandoned without having the opportunity to be showed what love is nor the opportunity to be taught right from wrong. This is my impressions about this book. I don't know if I understood it well.☺️ I agree with you about the powerful of this book. Thanks for this video, I want to reread it.

I just finished. I can see why this is a classic and I find, in truth, I can see little redeeming virtues in either protagonist. I recently read Paradise Lost and while I did feel sympathy for Satan in the poem, I did not find myself feeling any sympathy for the creature. He came off as entitled, and well, a bit whiney. I also thought to compare him to Shakespeare's Richard III who also states that people cannot love him because he is disfigured, but then he goes along, regardless of his deformity, charming people to their deaths. As to Frankenstein, he was a coward through and through and I got frustrated at times with his sheer stupidity. That he would spend the last part of the book in a wild goose chase, when obviously the creature wasn't going to wander far in the first place, was irritating. There was a lot of "sensibility" in this book on the part of Frankenstein, I can't tell if that is a product of the Romantic movement, or Shelly being a woman, or if people in the 1800's were that emotional. Poe is the same way, perhaps is it the genre... This book has done it's job and I have been thinking about it nonstop since I finished it. Thanks for the review.

This is super overrated and hurts to read. Just because a woman wrote it during the old times where they lacked rights, it gets praised. The ending makes no sense. They repeat phrases all the time and it leads to nothing. -1 star.