Review of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) by Martin Å — 02 Jan 2009

The Creature: What kind of people is it in which I am comprised? Good people? Bad people?

Victor Frankenstein: Materials. Nothing more.

The Creature: You're wrong.

[Picks up recorder].

The Creature: Did you know I knew how to play this? From which part of me did this knowledge reside? From this mind? From these hands? From this heart? And reading and speaking. Not so much things learned as things remembered.

Victor Frankenstein: Slight trace waves in the brain perhaps.

The Creature: Did you ever consider the consequences of your actions? You made me, and you left me to die. Who am I?

Victor Frankenstein: You? I don't know.

The Creature: And you think that I am evil.

Victor Frankenstein: Do you share my madness?

Walton: No, not madness.

Victor Frankenstein: What, then?

Walton: There is a passage to the North Pole. And I will find it!

Victor Frankenstein: At the cost of your own life and the lives of your own crew?

Walton: Lives come and go. If we succeed, our names will live on forever. I will be hailed as the benefactor of our species.

Victor Frankenstein: You're wrong. I of all men know that.

Captain Robert Walton: Who are you?

The Creature: He never gave me a name.

[he continues to weep].

Captain Robert Walton: Why do you weep?

The Creature: He was my father.