My least favourite thing though is that in the first novella, it does not show the Doctor in the creation process, or not as in depth as I would like it to be.
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Graphic Novellas
There are two individual stories per each novella. In the first one, provided by David, he is a caretaker of the past, present, and future. He shows Mary Shelley how he is "born", then he takes her back to when she was born; but most importantly, he takes her FAR into the future and shows her how life is restored through a defibrillator; electricity is the key to life, taken from the first novel. It was incredibly well organized, although it jumped around time eras a lot. It was a very intense take on how we constantly bring people from the dead back to life through the use of electricity, just like Dr. Frankenstein.
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It's interesting how Alaric points out that Doctor Frankenstein does not feature in the graphic novel "Frankenstein's Womb." It calls into question who the story of Frankenstein is really about. Is it the doctor's story? The monster's story? Both? I think a case could be made that just as electricity was a tool used to bring the monster to life, so was the doctor himself. Admittedly Doctor Frankenstein figures largely into the original novel, but the story is really about the monster. Without the monster, Frankenstein is just another madman. It is only because of the monster that he gains "immortality." The question I find particularly interesting is who is really "Prometheus" in the novel. I think that the case can be made, especially in "Frankenstein's Womb" that it is not the Doctor.
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