A review by calyxconcision
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

5.0

While I understand this book was about creativity and the dark side and what limits there should be to that creativity, I also understood it as ─ considering the culture I live in ─ an allegory for parents and their children; that spurning children leaves them alone, feeling abandoned, and can even cause them to feel anger at the world if they are continuously shunned. However, the allegory of the limits and dark side of human creativity did come through, as Frankenstein's Monster embodies what can happen if human creativity is pushed too far, destroying lives, and causing misery, and then, having nowhere to go and dying itself. This can also still be applied to real life, and even seen in dangers such as AI art and books and fiction written by AI and the danger it poses to peoples lives, how it has the potential to destroy them, and the threat it poses to human creativity.

On a more humorous note, Frankenstein is somewhat relatable as a creative, because he made his monster, and then immediately hated it, and I think a lot of artists and writers can relate to that.