Was Victor Frankenstein gay or bisexual?
I’m currently reading Frankenstein. I think the fact that it’s written by a woman makes the male narrators all seem feminine. First of all, the opening narrator, Robert Walton, sounds really gay the way he longs for a male friend.
Victor seems to love his friend Henry Clerval. He’s in no rush to marry Elizabeth. Why is he traveling with Clerval and enjoying the beautiful, romantic cruise through Switzerland instead of sharing it with Elizabeth?
Plus, this particular text had me chuckling — “Clerval desired the INTERCOURSE of the men of genius and talent who flourished at this time; but this was with me a secondary object.” It’s like they’re a gay couple who want to check out the gay scene in London.
Thoughts?
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | September 28, 2025 3:52 AM
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I was Dr. Frankenstein's Kelly Preston
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 27, 2025 6:35 PM
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Well - she did write it while sharing a villa near Lake Geneva with her bisexual husband and bisexual Lord Byron, who he was fucking around with.
She began writing it during the Summer that wasn't - when the world was covered with the ash from a massive volcano explosion.
Writing it during a summer when temps were like late fall or early winter and constant rain. Must have felt like the world had gone upside down.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 27, 2025 6:47 PM
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You mean the story that inspired The Rocky Horror Show might be read as non-heteronormative?
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 27, 2025 7:01 PM
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Today, at 18, when she started started writing the novel, she would be labeled a " Gen Z" wanna-be influencer.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 27, 2025 8:34 PM
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Frankenstein was written at a time when "courtly" love between men was fashionable. Women were seen as less-than, so a man could only truly love another man as an equal. In a strictly-hetero way, of course!
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 27, 2025 10:18 PM
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Her husband and Byron fucked, so she knew about gay sex. Percy loved sucking on Byron's clubfoot. How could this man not be gay ( clubfoot and all)?
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 28, 2025 2:22 AM
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I don't know but am appreciative that she created an enduring and sympathetic monster in her book.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | September 28, 2025 3:52 AM
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