Samuel Peterson’s Reviews > Frankenstein > Status Update

"The monster is a terrible creation sewed together out of scavenged bits of corpses, both human and animal." A-ha! I was right about the gorilla look of the creature's face in a few panels!

The author's and artist's notes are interesting. The artist believes similarly to Del Toro that love is the key in this story; either demanding too much in the case of the monster or not giving enough in the case of Victor.
I did not know that Mary Shelley had to write two versions of this story and that this manga is an adaption of the original. I also did not catch that Victor hates ugly people from the start.

At the end of the story, the creature declares that it will kill itself rather than let another person recreate the experiment. This aspect of the story is not often seen in some of the adaptions. It's usually a struggle between Frankenstein and the creature that results in both of their deaths. Or in Del Toro's version, it must live out in the frozen wastelands where no one ventures.

Even now, after Frankenstein dies, the creature mourns the loss of his creator and all chances of happiness. The captain of the vessel rebukes and condemns the creature still despite hearing how it regrets its actions but also how it questions his reasoning as every time that the creature has done good for humans, it is met with revulsion and repulsed from society. Does it not deserve pity for its lonely existence?

So, now that Victor's tale has been recounted, he is still fit enough to continue his travel onboard the icebreaker. Still, it looks like his constitution is wasting, and he is getting weaker while remaining in the frozen north for weeks.

He has been delirious and imprisoned for all of the deaths that surround him. Did he honestly think that a judge or magistrate of the law would believe his tale of bringing the dead to life?

The stress of it all looks to have killed Victor's father by a stroke or heart attack.

Frankenstein believed that he would be the one who would die on his wedding night. But he did not count on the creature's cruelty and malice that is equal to a man's.

His words and his sincerity over the loss of his friend should be enough to convince these people that Frankenstein would appear to be innocent, even though he blames himself for making the creature that killed him. Again, a forensic examination would be enough to prove that he is not the perpetrator.

Frankenstein believes that he is to be one to die on his wedding night from his interpretation of the creature's words. He does not fully realize that the creature is to make him as miserable and alone as itself.