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- Aug 23, 2017
Oh for fuck...i don't recall if Victor Frankenstein (which is a Germanic surname more than a Jewish one) is ever even established to have a religion. The book is more about pushing the limits to far and taking things to places you shouldn't go, which is why the boat captain chooses to turn around in the end instead of press on into the arctic.
You could make the argument that Frankenstein's monster draws on the Jewish golems or "Tammuz" but that is a massive stretch when said golems were supposed to be divinely powered while Frankenstein's creation is a perversion of God's design. To top this minirant off, i haven't even read Frankenstein and i know this.
There is a valid reading that Frankenstein is as much about God failing at being God as it is about Main failing to play God, but again, that has little to do with whatever religion Victor is and more to do with the fact that his story and that of the creature parallel the arc of God and Adam and Eve in the Garden.
It's not about specific religion, it's about knowing your limits and dealing with unjust reality.