Season 3 · Episode 19
Episode 88: “Creation’s Folly,” or Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Part II
June 5, 20251h 8m
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Show Notes
The boys wrap up their discussion of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and come away somewhat ambivalent: this is clearly a work of importance, imagination, and invention, but it feels…unfocused. We posit that the undeserved press and social pressure clouds what is otherwise an incredible meditation on creation: what are a creator’s responsibilities to their creation, and what effect does the fulfillment (or neglect) of those responsibilities have upon the created?