Vanessa Hammick

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322 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 14 May

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Sara & Cariad's Weirdos Book Club · Frankenstein by Mary Shelley with Vanessa Hammick · 14 May 2026 podcast

In the film, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I know.

A Byron quote?

Strange.

And then it comes up.

Yeah, and I... He might become... In the Kenneth Branagh version, I'm pretty sure... I'm pretty sure they both go off together, they both float off on a piece of ice together, Victor already dead, and then... Because he's, in the book...

the monster is going to build a pyre and kill himself to death.

But I just think with this thing, because for me the idea of the ambition that consumes everything and then both ending up on top of the world finally to meet their death and by that point the death is a relief.

I'm just like, oh my God, wow.

Because to me this is so much about all-consuming ambition.

Not ambition, actually self-obsession within that.

Because the thing that I think is so sad about this and it's kind of interesting, it is fun when he's obsessed with the project.

Yeah.

But then the obsession with the project drops and it just becomes this internal self-obsession.

And I think in my own life, I can really see where I've gone from like really being ambitious in a good way, which is when you're focused on it, to being something else, which is consumed with what I am and what this work makes me.

And to me, I feel that in this book so much.

And it really resonates with me.

Oh, yeah.

She definitely understands that.

And then she went on to create one of the greatest cultural icons.

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