the tie of our domestic comfort
Alphonse Frankenstein's foregrounding of domesticity may come as something
of a shock after the Creature's long account of his life amid the sublime
landscape of Mont Blanc. The
aftershock is the realization that he is
privileging the same exclusionary tribalism as Felix De Lacey. No more
than the De Laceys could one expect the Creature to be adopted by the
Frankenstein family.
