estrogen could have saved her
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"Who the fuck are you?"
"Alastor. Pleasure to be meeting you, quite a pleasure. I'm about to end your fucking life."
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*sees 6 pixels of a new red son outfit* oh yeah this is gonna go crazy
(fit in question under the cut)
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listen to life in the world to come
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A while ago a friend of mine got into an argument about Frankenstein and was told that the Creature “can’t be judged by human standards” so nothing he did could be held against him. If a human did all those things, sure, it would be evil, but since the Creature isn’t human, then the blame has to land elsewhere.
And good god I can’t imagine a worse way to miss the point. Mary Shelley is SO vocal about her feelings on society and justice and structural failures in the story, and draws the reader’s sympathy to the Creature despite the blood on his hands. She draws attention to how he met neglect and cruelty in his formative years and how this directly led to him turning to violence and cruelty himself.
She frames it as a heartbreaking tragedy that makes you yearn for a more forgiving society with more support for those who are struggling. The heightened drama and fantasy of it takes you by the hand and leads you to a very real-world application: What if a human was neglected and raised in cruelty, but then got caught up in crime, even violence? What if we offered them understanding, what if we did our best to prevent the cruelty and neglect in the first place?
Imagine throwing all that out the window because it all comes down to human vs nonhuman, as as soon as the framework changes it’s “well of COURSE if a human did that they’d be evil, but we can’t judge the Creature by human standards.”
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