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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Frankenstein is the monster, not Frankenstein's monster,
By Helen Miller (Stuttgart, AR) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Frankenstein, the Man and the Monster (Paperback)
If this book had been written soon after Mary Shelley's, all the entertainment since garnered from Shelley's book for movies, Halloween, etc., etc. would not exist. Belefant completely reinterprets and overturns the popular Hollywood view of the novel. But the main point Belefant makes is valid and well-supported: the "monster" was Victor Frankenstein himself doing all the misdeeds to prevent himself (Victor) from committing his own apparently worst nightmare, incest. The arguments for this and other aspects of the original (such as, could have Frankenstein's laboratory really existed?) are interesting as well as presenting an almost titillating, though realistic view into Mary Shelley's life and times.
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Frankenstein, the Man and the Monster by Arthur Belefant (Paperback - Nov. 1999)
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