Frankenstein's Dog - Don't Go Up to the Castle - Jon Wealleans
Frankenstein's Dog explores a scenario whereby Frankenstein should have first created a dog as a pilot scheme, before attempting a man-monster, mirroring the orbit before the first cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin.The man-monster was a metaphor for many things; for instance, revolution and the violent mob, uncontrolled science and the abandoned child.He failed, through no fault of his own, to establish much of a rapport with 'fellow' humans but could form a bond with a dog.In Shelley's novel, the creature..