Allison
asked:
I have read this novel multiple times and each time I always seem to be of a different mind than the rest of the group. Every time I read the story it seems to me that instead of succeeding with his creation of the monster Victor suffers a mental break and develops dissociative identity disorder with the monster being his other personality. Am I crazy for thinking that?
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Well, the monster is clearly in places Victor is not (see: William, Clerval) so... not crazy, but wrong? And that's not... how DID works. But the mental break, obviously, I can see.
Taylor McCoy
I thought this same thing. I'm a Psychology graduate, so of course my mind went there. I think that theory could be substantiated by the many parallel circumstances or characteristics between the two.
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