William Frankenstein - Blog Posts

Re-reading Frankenstein by Mary Shelley I had completely forgotten that Ernest existed.

I’m sorry Ernest, you deserve better.

hey so it turns out nick dear’s frankenstein is funny as fuck. what do you mean full of beans

Folks often make fun of the fact that Ernest says "my brother" instead of "our brother" during the Frankensteins' reunion after William's death as if throwing shade at Victor but like

There's some 10-ish years age gap between Ernest and William, for Victor and William it's 17. William was most likely not even a year old when Victor left to university and there's been radio silence from him ever since. Victor and William literally don't know each other, for pretty much William's whole life Ernest has been his only brother. It was just the two of them and Liz, Victor was never part of it. So it's natural that Ernest would slip like that.

Victor lost the idea of a brother but Ernest actually lost a brother

of course she's not more upset about justine's trial than william's murder - but william has already been murdered, and justine's trial is something she can actively participate in and take charge of in the present, hence the focus on it. what she's saying here is that if justine was executed it would be the last straw on top of recent events, and that an unfair execution (something that had the potential to go the right way but didn’t, the result of several unfair decisions) is a worse fate than a spontaneous murder, not that her death would be somehow more important than william's.

TWO YEARS??? Victor is the worst parent, oh my god

also, everyone in this story is gay. Special shout out to Elizabeth being more upset about her friend being on trial for murder than she is about her cousin she cared for like a son dying.