“I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on.” (Page 197)
Mary Shelley’s creature has been exploited by pop-culture. Along the road to exploitation, false assumptions. According to her literary description, the creature neither had green skin, screws in the sides of his neck, nor waddled with his arms forward. While his remarkable stature and brilliant strength physically mirror those of a monster, the creation is simply an involuntary murderer who