Frankenstein Graphic Novels

I thought Frankenstein’s Womb, while obviously not the real events leading up to Mary Shelley writing Frankenstein, helped to put a person to the story. While we all know that Mary Shelley wrote the novel, and that many of her own experiences are incorporated into it, the graphic novel helps to really put a face and a time behind the making of this classic. It offers a whimsical alternative to someone just traveling Europe while writing it. It helps to allow the reader to enter this fanciful world where impossible things can happen. This in turn can help the reader to get into the mind frame necessary to truly enjoy Frankenstein. The one illustrated by Jason Cobley is much more literal and adds illustrations to the words in the novel. I found this graphic novel very interesting because it is intriguing to see how someone else sees the novel. In my head, it looked nothing like this. Being able to see different viewpoints helps to reader to see things from different perspectives he or she may not have been able to acknowledge from his or her own imagination.