Yes, Victor was creating a man. Given that experiment goes successfully, would he have continued and tried to reanimate his mother? What do you think? Or am I reading too much into this lol 😆
I (and the author of the piece I linked) agree with you, in that Blade Runner 2049 is not feminist - a lot of the critiques of the movie were about how the women in the movie were nothing more than objects.
3/3 But could there be a *slight* possibility that Victor shared this motive, in creating the monster? I'd like to know what you think #HotFrankSummer
2/? She further writes that Jared Leto's character "is consumed by rage that women can do something he cannot". Surely, Victor did not share these feelings in any way. Even if he did have any motives behind "creating life", I think we can all agree it might have been to "resurrect" his mother.
I had the same reaction towards the end, when the monster converses with Robert. Despite the injustices it has suffered, it has still experienced the beauty nature has to offer, and when it dies, the memories of those will vanish with it, and the monster is aware of this fact, and states it as such.
In other news, Roman numerals are a mystery to me. Chapter IV, not Chapter V.
Much like how Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias" is a poem about the transience of power, its ability to corrupt men and fill them with hubris, I feel "Frankenstein" is about hubris-driven men who seek grandeur through discoveries - be it life, or a sea passage. #HotFrankSummer
Chapter 5 "... yet with how many things are we upon the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our enquiries." Clearly, Victor would not have been a fan of ethics committees and oversight boards. #HotFrankSummer
So Victor went all-in on something akin to Goop to "rebel" against his father, and then he decided to pursue science and rationality, much like a Silicon Valley bro from the early 2010s. If this trend follows, I guess he'll dabble with stoicism in a couple of years. #HotFrankSummer