Fudging Frankenstein.

However much a story is meant to be an allegory, it still needs to make sense as a story, right? Well, there’s an awful lot in the story of Frankenstein that’s irrational or implausible. Most of it I’ve tried to ignore, but this is the big one:

Victor’s narrative never says how he actually made the creature. I was assuming he’d put random bits of cadavers together, partly because the films take that route, and partly because there was early reference to scouring graveyards and charnel houses for bodies. But he never actually says that’s how it was done. And maybe it wasn’t.

Mr C has now prevailed upon V to make him a mate and threatened dire consequences if he doesn’t comply, so that’s what V is currently engaged in. And where’s he gone to make the second creature? To a small, remote island in the Orkneys which only has three shacks on it, one of which V has rented to do the job. And all he has with him is his laboratory equipment. And there’s no mention of graveyards this time.

Hmmm… I suspect that Mary has glossed over a pretty important element here, but time will tell. Reading on.