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No When it comes to fiction good endings air really

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important Think of planet of the apes with the statue

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of liberty just jutting out of the sand and the

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protagonist having a good scream on the beach Yeah spoiler

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alert Sorry with that money be remembered is such a

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classic if instead the protagonist had just spilled some soup

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on his pants screamed a little bit and spent the

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last twenty minutes of the film trying to clean up

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probably not soiled pants don't exactly feel the cinema's At

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least we hope they don't remind us to bring some

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wet wipes next time we go to a movie but

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luckily for frankenstein it has a pretty epic laundry free

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scene to cap it off As we recall captain robert

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walton was the guy who was listening to victor frankenstein's

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long tale of woe and monsters until victor finally wrote

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which was a real impediment to his storytelling career In

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the books last seen walton finds the monster weeping over

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his creators dead body of course he's going to be

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a bit sad he might be a monster but he's

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not a monster The monster delivers a bit of a

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monologue with his maker dead the monster thinks that he

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has no purpose in life and resolves to build a

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funeral pyre for himself and die When some people want

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a personal project we'll think maybe build a birdhouse or

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a spice rack but not this guy And with that

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his monologue completely leaps out the window onto a nice

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raft which takes him out of you into the darkness

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That might be an impressive exit but we don't recommend

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that you ever try it One thing that's interesting about

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the end of frankenstein is that depending on the addition

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you're reading you might get a slightly different ending Not

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that there's one where the monster goes water skiing into

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the distance behind a motorboat being driven by a polar

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bear The difference is air a bit more subtle than

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all that well here the two last senses of the

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eighteen thirty one version and has everything we just covered

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jumping out the window getting on the ice raft and

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then disappearing into the darkness No surprises by contrast here's

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the original eighteen eighteen version it's almost exactly the same

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but he had noticed any difference is one big one

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Is that in the original the monster clearly pushes himself

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off This gives us the image of a character who's

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in control of the very end of his story unlike

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one who's getting thrown around by the very strong waters

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as powerful as a bath toy Well the second difference

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is that in the original it's walton who loses sight

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of the monster that gives us a dose of ambiguity

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he's only lost a human eyes It might have a

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life beyond our world While who knows he might even

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skip out on the funeral pyre and make a nice 00:02:29.198 --> [endTime] birdhouse instead

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