Jeanne C. I wanted to look more into Frankenstein's monsters' talks of an idealized relationship he could have with his monstrous bride, akin to Adam and Eve. I drew a scene of a young couple with elements taken from Romeo and Juliet, an iconic pair of young lovers who seemed to be soulmates who fell completely in love at first sight and who thus wouldn't deny themselves to each other, in a rather similar way to the monster's want for a bride who "would not deny herself" to him (Shelley 101). I used a simply blue/red color scheme and kept out any dialogue or strong expressions because the monster's ideas of love are incredibly abstract and vague, relying more on imagery and traditional and extremely grounded gender roles rather than actual compassion and empathy. Instead, he maintains an idealized almost storybook like vision as to what love could look like, and by extension, what love could look like for him with a female monster. I kept the colors flat and cold, even when using traditionally warm and romantic colors, such as pink and red. I didn't add any dimension or shading to their clothes and kept the background completely blank with shades of grey. The couple seems almost to be in a cold void of sorts, with dull colors and a dull background. The monster has not thought of how his theoretical partner might feel, or of the possibilities for rejection, with his want to “live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for his being” sounding like a twisted version of a 'love at first sight' or a 'soulmate' type of connection akin to Adam and Eve or Romeo and Juliet- something he would venerate and want but never be able to attain (101). I added a black border that resembles a looking glass or window of sorts, with this image of a young and eternal love going from a delusional but hope-filled possibility to something completely shattered in front of him as the monster watches Victor “trembl[e] with passion" as he tears his bride to pieces through a window (119).
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