Frankenstein Critical Review

The critical review I choose for Frankenstein was written by Douglas Davy. Douglas starts of his review by stating the classic tale as an ill-fated quest to create life. First of all, Victor Frankenstein did create life is this novel. He worked very hard to achieve this goal. He spent years working and studying and traveling to figure out the best way to make this work and what things he needed to do it. Saying that his quest was ill-fated is not the best word choice. Victor didn’t fail, he accomplished his goal, but it did bring misfortune. Ill-fated means destined to fail or have back luck. Victor never failed, but he did have back luck. Victor eventually lost the monster who killed his whole family and ended up killing him as well. The monster …show more content…
The next thing Douglas talks about is how adapting complex work into a graphic novel for young readers is not easy. I do not agree with this. I believe that once Mary Shelly got her idea that it all came to her very easily and was able to portray the story perfect. The way she wrote the novel was easy for younger or older kids and even adults. Davy goes on to talk about Victor’s family and how they all got murdered. I think that Mary Shelly did a great job of explaining each of the characters and what they meant to Victor except one. Douglas brings up Justine and explains how she was only brought up when she looked bad. This part of his review I actually agree with him on. I think that Justine should have been introduced and explained more in the story. Even though the story isn’t really about Victor’s family, I feel like she played a big role and I would have like to received more information about her. With Justine only …show more content…
Mary Shelly wanted her readers to be truly frightened and she made that happen. I think that she did a great job of describing the way the way the monster looked and how Victor created him with the knowledge he knew and gained. Douglas says, “yet in one of the book’s most memorable images, thin strands of hair spill elegantly across a table as the doctor looks on in horror at the monster he has created.” I agree with Douglas on this too because this scene is one of the most memorable images in the story. Most all of the problems started when Victor accomplished his goal, but was so scared that he ran away. Many possible things could have happened if Victor wouldn’t have run away. If Victor would have accepted the monster or treated him like a friend than the monster wouldn’t have been lonely and wouldn’t have cause all of the horrible things that he did. With all of that said, it does make this scene one of the most memorable images in the book. This critical review that I chose was not the longest at all and it was actually very short. I didn’t necessarily love all of the things that Douglas Davy wrote about in his review but then I did agree with a couple of the things that he said. With that said, I don’t have a set one answer that I agree or disagree with. When reading this critical review, you can tell that Douglas Davy is very smart by his word choice, but I see things way different that he does. I have empathy towards Victor and I love