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

And that's how you protect Elizabeth.

Yeah.

I don't know if in the book, if you're meant to kind of be one step ahead.

But it's so hard when you've seen adaptations not to fill in the gaps.

it's an animated corpse so he does some really bad things and then we hate him and we fear him but that's such a pivotal part of the book and what's kind of frustrating is it's cut out of so many of the adaptations because don't you think she's kind of ahead of her time or like it's so relevant it's so relevant now this idea of like

nature versus nurture, and actually the reason he becomes a monster is because he's completely abandoned.

The moment he opens his eyes, and it's bizarre in the book, Victor Frankenstein goes, oh, you're hideous, and runs away straight away.

I've got some opinions about this.

But that thing of constant rejection and also another thing with the gaps.

Well, in Young Frankenstein, it's explicitly explained.

It makes him easier to work on because of the detailed work.

But like,

I thought you'd feel more kindly towards Frankenstein's monster than you do.

You do?

But he's self-educated.

He's a vegan.

I know you have grievance about the literature stuff, but he's a self-made man.

What do you think about the ambition of Victor Frankenstein?

Did that resonate?

And surrounded by ambitious people, didn't you see something of that self-obsession?

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