![]() Non-Malicious Monster (At least, not initially.).In it, the monster is created a blank slate, but is driven to evil by the way society mistreats him. The monster then goes off and kills himself (or at least he says that's what he's going to do).įew of this book's tropes are original - most are commonplace in Gothic novels of the eighteenth century - but they provide the oldest examples that are still widely read today. Victor then chases the monster into The Arctic, but dies from the cold. Victor marries his adoptive sister, who is also his cousin, Elizabeth, who is promptly killed while Victor is dutifully staying away from her, thinking the threat was to him. The monster retaliates by killing Victor's best friend and threatens more death should Victor ever marry. Victor agrees, then reconsiders and destroys the half-completed bride. ![]() Later, the monster returns and demands that Victor make him a wife. In the original 1818 book by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein creates the monster, then, repulsed by his creation, immediately throws him out. Henry Frankenstein, Frankenstein (1931)Īn iconic product of mad science, this creature has lumbered through scores of films and TV series, monstrous yet also pitiful. ![]()
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