October 27, 2025 • 52 mins
"You are the cause. I am the effect. The rest is destiny."
Pushing the limits of science and morality in his search for acceptance and purpose, Victor Frankenstein unleashes on the world a creation that he cannot control. To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's gothic novel, A. S. Peterson (The Battle of Franklin, The Hiding Place, A Christmas Carol) adapts the tale for the stage and creates an experience that will leave you pondering your own sense of belonging long after the curtain has fallen.
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The following is brought to you in partnership with Oasis Audio.
Welcome to Rabbit Room Press Presents, a podcast series of
great audiobooks, one chapter at a time.
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Oasis Audio and Rabbit Room Press present Frankenstein, a stage
adaptation by A.S. Peterson produced by Pete Peterson and Adam Hassel,
directed by Matt Logan and featuring the talents of Jared Reinfeld,
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Jeremias Losada, Henry Oh Arnold, Kim Bretton, Morgan Davis, Matt Rose,
Michael Williams, Brooks Bennett, Austin Olive, and Garrett Wimmer.
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The Frankenstein family are gathered at the graveside of William,
as a clergyman intones the burial rite.
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As Christ was raised from the dead, we too are
called to follow him through death and into glory. For
Christ is the firstborn of the dead. To him be
the glory and power forever and ever. Amen. Amen. You
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knew me before I was born. You shaped me into
your image and likeness. I breathe forth my spirit to you,
my creator. Lazarus you raised, O Lord, from the decay
of the tomb. Grant your servant rest. To you we
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commend the soul of William, your servant in your sight.
May he live forever in your goodness. Grant him everlasting life. Amen.
S5 (02:25):
I ought to have been there. I ought to have
stopped it. Let go of me! Why didn't someone help him?
I cannot even keep my own family safe.
S6 (02:41):
Come. Uncle William is at peace. We must turn our
attentions to the living.
S5 (02:49):
Thank God his mother didn't live to see this.
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We mourned. We buried the dead and I worked at
creating the new life I had promised, though I did
so slowly, for I dreaded its completion.
S5 (03:06):
She would have been ashamed. I failed her.
S7 (03:12):
But winter could not withhold spring forever. And as the
land bloomed and rose from her tomb, our spirits blossomed
as well. My dear, it warms my heart to see
your joy return.
S6 (03:29):
Yet your father grows slower each day. Victor, have you
not noticed?
S7 (03:37):
When mother died, he invested all his love of her
in William. I think he had little left for the
rest of us. And now that William is gone.
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We have it in our power to grant him a boon. Victor.
A blessing that may restore him, or at least grant
him happiness in his last years.
S7 (03:57):
What boon.
S6 (03:59):
Let us forestall no longer and be married. So he
may enjoy the union of those he cherishes most.
S7 (04:05):
Ah! You're right. Of course you are. But there's something
I must do first, Elizabeth. Something I have put off
for too long.
S6 (04:17):
What is this thing? Tell me.
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I cannot.
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Are we here again? Then what is it you cannot
say to me, Victor? What manner of thing can stand
between us who have kept no secrets, ever?
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But I have, Elizabeth. God forgive me, but I have
kept secrets. And if I do not tend to them,
they will return to haunt me.
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Do you remember when we were children, Victor. We shared everything.
There was a time when all our secrets were between us.
And together we kept them from the world. Oh, do
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not withdraw from me. Let me bear this secret with you.
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Forgive me, but what I withhold from you, I withhold
for your safety.
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And what if, by keeping me safe, you lose what
you hope to protect?
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Just trust in your victor, as you once did. I
have a task to complete. And later, when it is done.
All secrets will be put to death. I swear it.
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Later. Always. Later. Very well then, Victor, see to your secrets.
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By day I slept, and by night I crept out
once more among the dead, heaving out of the earth.
The raw material for my work.
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My creator fashioned for me. Another of my own kind.
A companion that I might not be alone. I looked
on with tears of joy as piece by piece she
was stitched into a being of terrible beauty. To look
on her you would pale. But to these eyes every
bone and ligament was as finest gold. Each night I
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waited and watched. For the moment of awakening.
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What is this?
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Elizabeth. No! Get out!
S6 (06:56):
I will not. I want to help you. Victor. Why
won't you let me help you?
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You cannot. Such work does not befit a woman.
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How then can it be fit a man? Show me.
S7 (07:06):
No, please!
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Wait! Let me go! Let me see.
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Listen to me, Elizabeth. I did it!
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What did you do?
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I can command life as God above.
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That is not possible.
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But it is, Elizabeth. I have done it.
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Show me. I want to see you.
S7 (07:32):
No. You cannot.
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And why is that? I'm already here, Victor. Move aside
and let me see.
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He is.
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He is detestable. He is an abomination. Unfit for human eyes.
S6 (07:47):
Nonsense. If you have given life to the lifeless, then
you have wrought a thing of beauty. Victor. The appearance
of it is a small matter.
S7 (07:57):
He is a murderer. Elizabeth.
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This. Is this the source of your distress? All I
see lies dead upon your table.
S7 (08:07):
Not this. This is another.
S6 (08:12):
Another? What do you mean?
S7 (08:15):
He demands it, Elizabeth. And I have sworn it to
him who demands.
S6 (08:22):
What are you talking about? Be sensible and explain it
to me. You sound like a madman.
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From behind Elizabeth, the creature emerges from the shadows. All
his attention is bent upon Victor's unfinished new work.
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The Lord God said.
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It is not good that man should be alone. I
will make for him a helper to be his wife.
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Stay back.
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Can you speak with me?
S7 (08:52):
Elizabeth! Come away.
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What is your name?
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My name is his to conjure. For who can name himself?
It is his to choose if mine be hatred or
else be love. And upon his choice hangs the ruin.
Or the life of all. The neighborhood of man.
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Choice. What choice?
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I have already.
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Agreed to your pact. Begone! Or I may think of
it again and alter my course.
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The creature seizes Elizabeth by the arm.
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Fulfill your promise.
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My wedding night awaits. And with it, your absolution.
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The creature pushes Elizabeth towards Victor and vanishes into the shadows.
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Are you harmed? Did he hurt you?
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Armed. I am entranced. You made this being. Its life
is from your hands.
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I confess it, I knew not what I did, and
I would unmake it if I could. Can you forgive me?
S6 (10:02):
Forgive you? Victor, this is a miracle, a miracle. You
have done what only God may do. I know not
whether it is blasphemy or some high art, but it
is unparalleled in the science of man. And now you
are making another a woman.
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He demands it of me. If I withhold from him
a companion, he will desolate the earth. He is powerful, Elizabeth,
and his heart is black.
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Oh, the creature I just beheld was not black of heart.
He spoke as a soul bereft of human love. I
heard in his voice an echo of my own. Victor,
for who has not known the despair of loneliness, and
cried out to her maker for its amendment.
S7 (10:51):
Elizabeth. Do not be swayed. He has no kindness in him,
and he is murderous.
S6 (10:58):
What murder has he done?
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William.
S6 (11:05):
What?
S7 (11:06):
He slew William in his rage, and Justine has hung
for it.
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That cannot be.
S7 (11:13):
It is. I swear it.
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But that's impossible, Victor.
S7 (11:19):
How must I defend my word against an abomination?
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If this is so, then why did you not speak?
S7 (11:30):
I tried.
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You tried?
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What was I to say? Should I have confessed that
I delved in graveyards like a heretic and fashioned a
creature out of the freshly dead? Should I have told
them that I gave a brute the gift of life,
and in return it gorged its evil upon an innocent blood.
My name would have been mocked for a madman. And
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yet still would Justine have hung.
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Yet you told not even me. Victor.
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Is it not the burden of prudence to keep silent?
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Prudence?
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For your sake, Elizabeth, for your sake.
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You suggest that a woman has hanged for my sake.
And I ought to thank you for it. Oh! Oh, God.
Poor Justine. Oh.
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You do not understand. You cannot.
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You are right, Victor. I do not understand. You tell
me you have sinned in the making of this creature.
But to have abandoned Justine to know the truth and
keep it for yourself. Such silence Broods are cold and
cruel iniquity. Victor. And I am ashamed to see it
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rooted in the man I am, to where.
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I had no choice. Elizabeth.
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Every turn you push me away. You drive me out.
You close yourself off. You sequester yourself with corpses rather
than share your passion with the beating heart of one
who loves you.
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Elizabeth. Please, I.
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You must love in return, Victor.
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I do.
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Elizabeth I do.
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Oh! I have been a fool. Perhaps it is fitting
that I am to wed a fool as well. Oh,
for your father's tender heart I will not break our betrothal.
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But be you sure that when you visit me upon
our wedding night, it will be a cold bed that
greets you?
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Elizabeth, please. I should have confided in you. I should have.
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There is to be forgiveness. It will come in some
distant time that I cannot yet see. Goodbye, Victor. Dabble
with your miracles. I will see you when we are wed.
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Elizabeth.
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Cursed work. Surely I am wedded to misery.
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Initial work. Frankenstein. And I'll quit you forever.
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Then let us to it.
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In a wall of macabre creativity, Victor labors at his table,
fulfilling his oath, and as he does so, Alphonse tends
to wedding preparations while Elizabeth is made ready by Alphonse.
So too is the creature's bride, made ready by Victor.
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The wedding will be in the old church. It is
the very place I was wed and my parents before me.
S6 (15:06):
Yes, uncle.
S5 (15:08):
You must call me father now. And I shall call
you daughter. The days are few before it shall be
lawfully so.
S6 (15:17):
Yes, father.
S5 (15:18):
We must summon the dressmaker. I will spare no expense.
S6 (15:23):
Yes, father.
S5 (15:25):
So for her a gown of purest white. May Elizabeth
will be made to shine like a jewel.
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It shall be my finest work.
S5 (15:35):
You must be Squeeze it.
S6 (15:38):
Yes, father.
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And at the appointed time, the bride and groom will
process to the altar. Here. Thou shall be spoken and
the marriage consecrated.
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Do you understand, my dear?
S6 (15:52):
Yes, father.
S5 (15:54):
To morrow will be a day of great joy. You
have made me a happy man, my dear. We will
make of you a true Frankenstein.
S6 (16:06):
Yes, father.
S3 (16:08):
Victor completes his work and attaches the apparatus of tubes
and wires to the bride's lifeless limbs. Then he raises
the syringe of glowing serum in preparation for the moment
of her awakening.
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I raise the bride to rid the world of the
curse I have loosed upon it.
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Flesh like my flesh.
S8 (16:35):
Yours shall be all the love and care that was
denied me. You shall be beloved. The wild reaches of
creation shall be our home, and we will live and
love and bear children as all things do, and shall
neither think on us, nor trouble us any longer. It
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is your word, Frankenstein. Fulfil your covenant.
S7 (17:09):
Let there be children, said you nothing of your children.
S8 (17:17):
What of it? If any offspring come of our union,
it will be of no concern of yours or any man.
S7 (17:23):
Will God forgive me if I am cause for the
creation of a race of devils?
S10 (17:28):
Wake her.
S7 (17:29):
What right have I to inflict such a curse upon
everlasting generations?
S8 (17:34):
Generation waking.
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Her. The future ages will curse me. Whose work imperil
the whole human race? Waking her to the name of
Frankenstein cannot be recalled in infamy. You ask too much.
S3 (17:45):
Victor smashes the syringe on the floor. The serum spills
across the floor and its glow is extinguished.
S8 (17:56):
You dare break your oath? Will you make of me
your Satan rather than your atom?
S7 (18:01):
I do break my promise. Never will I create another
like yourself.
S8 (18:06):
Have you forgotten what power I possess? What strength? You
are my creator. But I am your master now. Obey.
S7 (18:14):
The hour of my resolution is past. I am inexorable.
S14 (18:19):
Now. Wake up! Call it a life, I command it.
S3 (18:26):
The creature gathers his bride into his arms. He shakes her.
He breathes his own breath into her. He presses his
face against her breast and rubs her flesh to warm it.
But nothing will coax her into life.
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Teach me the murder of your work. I will do it.
Do not send me into the world alone. You made me,
but you made me. Only in half. Complete the work
you began.
S7 (18:57):
I have declared to you my intent. My labors are finished. Farewell.
S14 (19:05):
Ah ah! Ah!
S8 (19:17):
We are not finished, Frankenstein! We are.
S14 (19:22):
Not finished.
S3 (19:33):
The creature carries his bride into the night as his
wails recede into the distance. Victor approaches the church on
the morning of his wedding day. He stands before the
altar to receive his bride, as he once stood before
his operating table to deliver a bride to another.
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O God, who in creating the human race will that
man and wife should be one, join these in the
covenant of marriage, so that they may become witnesses to
charity itself. Amen. Who gives this woman to be wed
to this man is.
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God gave Eve to Adam. So do I give Elizabeth
to Victor?
S7 (20:21):
I, Victor take you, Elizabeth, for my wife to have
and to hold, to love and to cherish until death
do us part.
S6 (20:35):
I, Elizabeth, take you, Victor, for my husband to have
and to hold, to love and to cherish until death
do us part.
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May you be witnesses in the world to God's charity,
so that the afflicted and needy who have known your kindness,
May 1st day receive you into the eternal dwelling of God. Amen.
What God has put together, let no man put asunder.
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Go forth in the name of the Lord.
S3 (21:12):
Victor attempts to kiss Elizabeth, but she turns away coldly.
The ceremony ends, and with no words spoken between them,
they arrive at the wedding bower and enter.
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Elizabeth. Elizabeth.
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Do not speak. Let no words disturb us now.
S7 (21:43):
Am I forgiven.
S6 (21:47):
To forgive the journey? Today is but a step.
S7 (21:53):
Then I have yet hope.
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I cannot hate you, my Victor, my husband. So let
us begin tonight to create a new love from what
has died. Death unto rebirth is the way of all life.
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It will be our way as well.
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There is nothing hidden between us. I will be a
new man. Elizabeth. Your creation.
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Suddenly, a shadow passes at the window.
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He cannot enter.
S3 (22:38):
Victor runs to the door, opens it and looks out,
but seeing nothing, he closes it again and locks it.
He paces the room anxiously.
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There is no one here, Victor. Only you and I.
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Know.
S6 (22:54):
Victor.
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Victor draws a pistol from the dresser drawer and points
it around the room wildly.
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Get away!
S6 (23:02):
Victor, what is this?
S7 (23:04):
He stalks me. Elizabeth, did you hear him? Did you
see a shadow passing? These are my secrets in the flesh.
S6 (23:12):
I heard only the wind on the window. So only
a flash of firelight on the curtain. There is no
trouble here.
S7 (23:21):
I want to believe you. But you cannot know how
he hates me. I live ever in the foreshadow of
his appearance.
S6 (23:31):
Be at peace, Victor. Love alone can quiet terror. Mine
shall conquer yours. Did you fulfill your promise to him?
S7 (23:45):
I could not, and now I fear him as never before.
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Listen to me. You are my husband. I am your wife.
We will kindle a new life between us. We shall
be blessed with children to love and cherish and train
up in kindness and knowledge. We will withdrawal to the country. And.
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No.
S7 (24:15):
Go away! Devil! Do not threaten what is dearest to me.
You will rue it.
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You would take for yourself Self that which you would
deny me.
S7 (24:26):
My oath I have broken, I confess it. For no
oath can be held between a man and an abomination.
S8 (24:32):
You dissemble the God you worship, bound himself to a
covenant with your kind, even unto his death. Are you
not made in his image?
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I will not hear you.
S7 (24:44):
You have no right to speak of gods and men.
S8 (24:47):
Where your god to you, as you have been to me.
Only his ruin would slake your hatred. Who then am
I to rise higher than my maker?
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You delight to talk to me as if you look
down upon me from a righteous throne. But you are
not my judge. I made you, I stitched you out
of better men. And the best of you is no
more than the tatters they left behind.
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Then tell me why, Frankenstein. Why did you make me
not to love, not to cherish, But to torment. To hate. Why, Frankenstein? Why.
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I hail you. No defense.
S6 (25:31):
Victor, put the pistol down.
S8 (25:33):
Seed was planted that germinated within you. What grew up
of the mine grew and enfleshed itself in my past
work form.
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You are a child of science. Nothing more, nothing more.
S7 (25:48):
His Inquisition's pierced me. They plundered my soul. And even
as he asked it, I felt that his soundings had
divined some hidden shape within me. Some primal cause for
which I was merely the effect and destined result.
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Invictus. Distress. A wave of memories surge within him and
materialized before his eyes.
S7 (26:15):
Father.
S5 (26:19):
He's awake. I think he wants his mother. Caroline. My son.
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Mother.
S6 (26:28):
Look at him. Look at his eyes.
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He sees me. How lovely. Such intelligence.
S5 (26:37):
What a magnificent thing we have made.
S16 (26:40):
He is our creation. Whom to bring up to God,
and whose lot it is in our hands to direct
towards happiness.
S7 (26:48):
My mother, a creature of absolute grace and charity.
S16 (26:54):
Victor. Victor, come and see me. Oh.
S5 (26:58):
A surprise for you.
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She will be with us now. Not a sister, exactly,
but a cousin. Perhaps a companion for you. We must
make her happy, Victor.
S5 (27:10):
She is bereaved of her family. Therefore we shall be
hers in all ways. And love her like our own.
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Come, child. Tell him your name. Let us minister to
you with kindness.
S6 (27:25):
I am Elizabeth. I am Elizabeth.
S5 (27:28):
Another boy.
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He is beautiful.
S16 (27:32):
Victor! Come quickly. Listen to me.
S7 (27:37):
Are you well? Mother! What's wrong?
S16 (27:41):
I must leave you, I fear.
S7 (27:43):
What?
S16 (27:44):
Care for the victor. Why, Elizabeth? For your father. For
little William. You will make me proud, won't you?
S7 (27:55):
Where are you going? What do you mean? When are
you coming back?
S16 (28:00):
You are a Frankenstein, Victor. Remember that. Make me proud.
Make me proud.
S5 (28:11):
What's going on? What did she say? Caroline. Caroline.
S7 (28:17):
Mother.
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Caroline.
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All who have died in Christ will rise with him
on the last day. We give you thanks, O Lord.
You are the resurrection and the life. Amen.
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Hush, little William. She is gone to God. Hush, my son.
S5 (28:46):
Would that we had done something more for her. Now
we shall dwell always in the shadow of her passing.
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You are a Frankenstein.
S3 (29:04):
The ghosts of Victor's past dissipate into shadow, and before
him looms the monstrous result of his life's work.
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Answer me! Why was I made? And to what end?
S7 (29:17):
My reasons are my own. They are no concern of yours.
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No concern? They are my chief. And only concern. For
in them lie the foundations of my crude conception. Look
at me. My scars are written in my flesh. You
are their cause. And they are the instruments by which
every step is mapped. But where are your scars, Frankenstein?
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You secret them away where they cannot be seen. Though
they steer you as surely as a ship is driven
by a gale. Why tell me why you stitched me
into being.
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Concern yourself with this. I have made you. And I
will unmake you the same. Ah.
S6 (30:03):
Victor.
S8 (30:10):
You are no almighty God, for you cannot undo what
you have made and neither will you redeem it.
S3 (30:18):
The creature tears open his coat, digs the spent shot
from his flesh, and tosses it at Victor's feet.
S8 (30:27):
I am your God now. For in my hands is
all your future to give or to withhold.
S7 (30:33):
You blaspheme. I will not hear you.
S6 (30:37):
Then I will hear you.
S7 (30:39):
Elizabeth, wait! Come behind me and let me deal with him.
His whole nature is governed by hatred.
S6 (30:45):
How can the wretched be otherwise? Unless by love, or
at least by kindness?
S8 (30:50):
If I am wretched, it was he that made me so.
S6 (30:53):
Then perhaps the twisted iron may be reworked. Come, speak,
and let us see you.
S7 (31:04):
Do not approach her. She cannot bear your odious form.
S6 (31:11):
You are Magnificent. Elizabeth.
S7 (31:16):
Listen to me.
S6 (31:18):
Your form is not lovely. But in your eyes hide
storms of pain and grief.
S8 (31:27):
What? Know you of pain or grief?
S6 (31:30):
I know of a family lost and a husband slipping away.
What is more human than to feel grief? To suffer pain.
To shudder in one's loneliness and cry out for relief.
S8 (31:49):
You think me human.
S6 (31:51):
If my victim made you, then you must be. Oh,
you think him cruel, but you know him not. He
is kind and curious and eager. I have seen these
in him all his life.
S8 (32:09):
He. He has consigned me to solitude. What kindness does
he claim for his creation, whom even he cannot love?
S15 (32:16):
Elizabeth, move!
S6 (32:19):
Victor, enough!
S8 (32:24):
Have you forgotten the strength you knit into my form?
I do not die as easily as man. Shall I
show you?
S3 (32:33):
The creature seizes Elizabeth.
S7 (32:37):
Leave her.
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Be.
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And how shall I leave her? Shall I leave you
a bride as you left mine? Shall I leave you
a wife to cleave to? Or shall I grant you
a torment to answer my own?
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Wait. Listen. Be calm. Did you not harm her?
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Please.
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What say you, woman? How should the creation answer his
creator with the kindness of his natural state, or with
the cruelty that has shaped him?
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Please unhand her. Yeah, I beg you.
S6 (33:13):
If the want of kindness governs your heart, then treat
with him no more. Look to me. I am unafraid.
The charity of the human heart can offer its embrace
even to one such as you.
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So I believed once. But man has proven himself unequal
to the lies of righteousness. Hatred is man's answer to
the innocent brutality. His gift to the gentle and exile
is his sentence upon the desolate. Your victor is my
maker and my teacher. Look on me and see reflected
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the abyss within his heart. In his unholy image. Am
I made?
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You cannot see it. But there is light within him.
Yet I see that light in you also. Me invades
us all and goodness is with evil mixed yet of
a man's heart. His sins are not the sum.
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Elizabeth.
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Be silent. Victor.
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Would that my creator had shown me the smallest portion
of kindness. In that event, my ruin might have been avoided,
my redemption won, and with it his. But look at him.
He grovels like a worm and reeks of his sin.
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Even now he cannot love his creature as he made him,
and neither will he pity him, the manner of his making.
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Then let us love him till he mends.
S8 (34:56):
You would have me love him.
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Elizabeth.
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I would to love another who will not love in
return is to gain the highest fortune for it. In
loving we discover the amendment of our heart and not
in being loved.
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You do not understand. You cannot.
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I understand this. The beauty of a broken heart is
written in the scars of which it heals.
S7 (35:26):
Elizabeth, what are you doing? He cannot be reasoned with
to stand aside that I may finish him.
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Do you.
S7 (35:32):
See?
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From death he brought forth life. And now in life
he calls forth only death.
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Listen to me, please.
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In his malice, our creation and destruction met. His paradox
cannot hold. So it must be broken.
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Please let kindness conquer terror. These scars can be your glory. Come,
tell us your name.
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The creature opens his mouth to speak, but Victor draws
a knife and thrusts it into his back. The creature
roars in pain, then enraged.
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Wait.
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He snaps Elizabeth's neck and tosses her lifeless body onto
the bed.
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You are, answered Frankenstein, in the only tongue you comprehend.
I shall await the stroke of your revenge.
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Elizabeth. Elizabeth.
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Victor shakes her. He rubs her arms as if to
awaken her. He lays his head against her breast and sobs.
But nothing will coax her back into life. Victor gathers
her into his arms and carries her from the room
in tears. A short time later, Alphonse opens the door
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and ushers in a police inspector.
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Here's the room.
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She was killed there.
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He said. A monstrous being leapt from the window and
slew her.
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And then what happened?
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He said the creature leapt again through the window and
was gone.
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A precipitous fall. Would you lead me to speak with
your son?
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He is stricken with grief.
S5 (37:40):
Victor.
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Who are you?
S4 (37:42):
Are you going somewhere, sir?
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My wife's murderer is loosed on the world. Wherever he goes,
I pursue.
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Yes, a monstrous beast.
S7 (37:51):
Was it more evil than you can imagine?
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I would like to talk plainly, sir. At the magistrate's office.
S7 (37:59):
Perhaps it is a tale so strange. I fear you
would not credit it. You must trust me and follow.
I will lead your men in the hunt.
S4 (38:09):
But who can follow a creature who leaps upon buildings
or falls without arm? What true pursuit do you suggest
we give if such a creature exists?
S7 (38:19):
My gentle wife lies dead, crushed in the grip of
a monster. If you are too cowardly, sir, then begone
and let better men do your job.
S4 (38:31):
I think the monster has perhaps not left the scene.
Can we be sure he has? Not in this room, sir.
S7 (38:38):
What?
S5 (38:39):
What? What do you mean?
S7 (38:42):
You think me mad? You think I have devised a
demon of convenience and laid upon him the slaying of
my wife?
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I wish only to discuss the facts, sir.
S7 (38:52):
I have given you the facts, sir. And I will
not be accused. I confess that William and Justine and
Elizabeth all perished because of my actions.
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But They? What? What is your meaning?
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I am not their murderer, father. I am no monster.
But ere I die, I shall be their avenger. Now, sir,
clear my way.
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You will explain yourself.
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Stand down! Sir.
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The inspector draws a pistol and aims it at Victor.
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I cannot.
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Victor flees and the inspector fires his weapon. The shot
seems to strike its mark, but Victor is only briefly
hindered as he vanishes into the night to pursue his enemy.
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Victor.
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What have you.
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Done.
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Victor?
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Ah! Who now is the creator and who the created?
I fashioned you in my own image and in your
misery I take my soul. Delight, calm face me.
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Do you not dare.
S8 (40:01):
Come, my enemy, we are entered upon a journey. And
only your suffering will satisfy my rage.
S7 (40:11):
North. Ever north. He led me down the mountain halls,
through cathedral forests, across icy prairies and solid seas. Until
at last upon your ship I fell.
S8 (40:29):
And here we are.
S7 (40:30):
And here we are.
S5 (40:33):
And here we are. You are right, Frankenstein. We are
in many ways the same passion and ambition course in
our veins. We might have been friends had our destinies
been otherwise. You though your deeds are brute. And your
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form grotesque. Tisk to hear your tale. And judge is hard.
Wretched though you are. Confess. You claim a measure of
my pity.
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Pity?
S5 (41:13):
Yes, pity. In truth, I pity you both. For in
Hatred's grip you are equally snared.
S8 (41:22):
Then, for hatred's sake, let us make an end of it.
S7 (41:25):
Long have I waited to enact my vengeance. Therefore, behold,
I will wait a moment longer that I may persuade
some other of my virtue.
S8 (41:37):
My wrath is eternal. Your tales will not exhaust it.
S7 (41:42):
You have heard my tale. You have seen that I
am guiltless except in the consequences of my actions.
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Guiltless.
S7 (41:52):
And now, as I reflect on my achievements, I rank
myself with the names of all great scientific endeavor.
S8 (42:01):
All praise the great man he ranks himself.
S7 (42:05):
My aim was full of glory, was it not? I overcame,
I achieved what man has only ever dreamed. For this
my name is raised up to heaven. Do you see it?
I shall be hailed as a benefactor of the species.
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My name belonging to that great company who toiled for
the benefit of all mankind.
S8 (42:34):
For the benefit of.
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All.
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Mankind. All praise Frankenstein.
S7 (42:40):
Therefore, press onward to the pole. Do not return to
your families in disgrace. Return as heroes who fought and
conquered and who did not turn away from the foe.
Return and claim your glory. But what of mine? You
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wonder what of Victor Frankenstein?
S14 (43:09):
Yes. Tell us.
S8 (43:11):
Let us hear more of him.
S7 (43:13):
My foe is now before me, and I shall meet him.
And though he slay me, he cannot take from me
my name.
S8 (43:22):
Come then, thou faultless God. Let us try your courage.
Overcome me, and your fame will be complete.
S3 (43:30):
Victor and his creation square off and circle one another.
But just as their combat is about to begin, Victor
slips to the deck in exhaustion.
S7 (43:44):
Mine is a great and solitary height. And so must
be my fall. My spirit reigns. Like the archangel who
aspired to omnipotence. I am descended to eternal hell.
S3 (44:07):
Victor pulls back his coat and reveals the festering wound
of the inspector's gunshot.
S7 (44:13):
The villain's aim was true.
S14 (44:16):
What? No.
S5 (44:17):
He is wounded. Fetch him below quickly!
S14 (44:20):
It is too late.
S7 (44:22):
My life light darkens.
S8 (44:25):
You cannot die. I have not ordained it.
S7 (44:28):
My sufferings near their end. You cannot prolong them further.
S8 (44:34):
Stop his.
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Wound, I.
S8 (44:35):
Command it.
S7 (44:36):
Listen. That he should live to be an instrument of evil.
Disquiets me when I am gone. Draw your blade and
thrust it into his heart. My spirit shall hover near.
I shall direct you, Steele. All right then, with him,
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all my hatred dies.
S3 (45:00):
One of the sailors readies a knife.
S5 (45:02):
Hold.
S7 (45:05):
The forms of the beloved dead. Before me. He hastened
to their ready arms. Oh, Elizabeth. Forgive. Oh!
S5 (45:23):
Uh. He is gone.
S8 (45:27):
He cannot die. Not yet. No, no.
S14 (45:36):
No.
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As the creature falls to his knees and gathers up
Victor's body, a sailor steps forward with his ready knife.
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Go on. Do it now. Make no move.
S5 (45:49):
Stand back!
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Bear witness in his death. My crimes are consummated in
the misery of my being. Whence to its close. You are.
S14 (46:09):
Right.
S8 (46:12):
It was hatred kept us snared. We sought our satisfaction
in revenge. And now we've eaten up its meager meal. Frankenstein.
What would it avail to ask you to pardon me?
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I am more wretched than ever I was, for I
have no God from whom to seek my absolution.
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Kill him! Captain Winthrop.
S5 (46:44):
Your creator is gone. But to confess is to hope
for an amendment of life. Speak your piece. We will
hear it.
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When I think on my sins, I scarce believe that
I am the same creature whose thoughts were filled with
goodness once. I dreamed that should one being grant me kindness,
than for her sake I would quench my hate. And
yet I slew her in my rage. I devoted my
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creator to misery and pursued him to his ruin. And
so he lied. White and cold in death. But my
crimes are near complete. And justice needs but one more death.
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You fetch the timber in heaved onto the ice.
S20 (47:46):
What?
S13 (47:47):
Me?
S8 (47:48):
If you wish to live, obey.
S20 (47:51):
Do as he says.
S3 (47:52):
The sailors throw the wood that they have brought with
them out onto the ice, and the monster gathers it,
as he did for Felix and Agatha, and stacks it
into a pile.
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Stow away your fear, for upon this icy waste I
shall collect my funeral pyre. And consume to ashes this
miserable form. In the world first dawned upon me. I
should have wept to die. Now it is my only consolation.
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The creature removes from his coat a single flower and
gives it to Captain Winthrop. Then he retrieves the lantern
from the mast and places it beside the pyre.
S8 (48:40):
You're the last these eyes will ever see. Oh, well. Frankenstein.
Blast it, though.
S14 (48:50):
Thou, when thou.
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Wert my only God.
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And king. My only enemy and my only companion.
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Maker of both my misery. And my joy. But let
us do it.
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The creature lifts Victor's body into his arms.
S5 (49:15):
Wait. Is there no other way?
S8 (49:20):
We abound, he and I, in courts indissoluble even by death.
S5 (49:26):
Then give us at least your name that we may remember.
S14 (49:35):
We name.
S8 (49:38):
I once dreamed of a name written upon a white stone.
But whatever meaning is in dreams. Is for some other
to discover. For alas, my dreaming ends.
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We ascend.
S8 (49:54):
Our funeral.
S14 (49:54):
Pyre.
S8 (49:55):
To exalt into the agony of flames. Our ashes shall
scatter over the deep. Until the sun upon some better
world shall dawn. Until that day.
S14 (50:08):
Far distant and far better.
S8 (50:12):
We are embraced in death.
S3 (50:16):
The creature smashes the lantern against the pyre and gathers
Victor into a final embrace as the flames consume them.
The sailors look on in silence. They remove their hats
and cross themselves, while Captain Winthrop backs away and considers
the flower in thought.
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How could I absolve him? I would do it. His
was a singular and desolate grief.
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May God have mercy. The ice has broken the ships
free resale. We aim her north.
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Three sails.
S5 (51:02):
And belay that order. Captain Turner.
S14 (51:05):
South.
S5 (51:06):
Sir. You heard me.
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But, sir, what about the pole?
S14 (51:11):
What about the fortune and glory of discovery?
S5 (51:14):
Fortune, glory! Have you no ears to hear? We've witnessed
here a wonder, son. And by its dying light, we'll
set ourselves some better course than that of Victor Frankenstein.
S2 (51:50):
This has been an Oasis audio recording of Frankenstein, a
stage adaptation by A.S. Peterson recorded by Joe Trentacoste at
Sound Emporium Studios. Post-production by Adam Hassell. Text copyright 2020
by A.S. Peterson. Audio production copyright 2020 by Oasis Audio,
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a division of Oasis Family Media, under license from A.S.
Peterson for Oasis Audio. I'm Rebecca Kaye Reynolds. Thank you
for listening.
The following is brought to you in partnership with Oasis Audio.
Welcome to Rabbit Room Press Presents, a podcast series of
great audiobooks, one chapter at a time.
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Oasis Audio and Rabbit Room Press present Frankenstein, a stage
adaptation by A.S. Peterson produced by Pete Peterson and Adam Hassel,
directed by Matt Logan and featuring the talents of Jared Reinfeld,
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Jeremias Losada, Henry Oh Arnold, Kim Bretton, Morgan Davis, Matt Rose,
Michael Williams, Brooks Bennett, Austin Olive, and Garrett Wimmer.
S3 (01:15):
The Frankenstein family are gathered at the graveside of William,
as a clergyman intones the burial rite.
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As Christ was raised from the dead, we too are
called to follow him through death and into glory. For
Christ is the firstborn of the dead. To him be
the glory and power forever and ever. Amen. Amen. You
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knew me before I was born. You shaped me into
your image and likeness. I breathe forth my spirit to you,
my creator. Lazarus you raised, O Lord, from the decay
of the tomb. Grant your servant rest. To you we
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commend the soul of William, your servant in your sight.
May he live forever in your goodness. Grant him everlasting life. Amen.
S5 (02:25):
I ought to have been there. I ought to have
stopped it. Let go of me! Why didn't someone help him?
I cannot even keep my own family safe.
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Come. Uncle William is at peace. We must turn our
attentions to the living.
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Thank God his mother didn't live to see this.
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We mourned. We buried the dead and I worked at
creating the new life I had promised, though I did
so slowly, for I dreaded its completion.
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She would have been ashamed. I failed her.
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But winter could not withhold spring forever. And as the
land bloomed and rose from her tomb, our spirits blossomed
as well. My dear, it warms my heart to see
your joy return.
S6 (03:29):
Yet your father grows slower each day. Victor, have you
not noticed?
S7 (03:37):
When mother died, he invested all his love of her
in William. I think he had little left for the
rest of us. And now that William is gone.
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We have it in our power to grant him a boon. Victor.
A blessing that may restore him, or at least grant
him happiness in his last years.
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What boon.
S6 (03:59):
Let us forestall no longer and be married. So he
may enjoy the union of those he cherishes most.
S7 (04:05):
Ah! You're right. Of course you are. But there's something
I must do first, Elizabeth. Something I have put off
for too long.
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What is this thing? Tell me.
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I cannot.
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Are we here again? Then what is it you cannot
say to me, Victor? What manner of thing can stand
between us who have kept no secrets, ever?
S7 (04:37):
But I have, Elizabeth. God forgive me, but I have
kept secrets. And if I do not tend to them,
they will return to haunt me.
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Do you remember when we were children, Victor. We shared everything.
There was a time when all our secrets were between us.
And together we kept them from the world. Oh, do
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not withdraw from me. Let me bear this secret with you.
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Forgive me, but what I withhold from you, I withhold
for your safety.
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And what if, by keeping me safe, you lose what
you hope to protect?
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Just trust in your victor, as you once did. I
have a task to complete. And later, when it is done.
All secrets will be put to death. I swear it.
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Later. Always. Later. Very well then, Victor, see to your secrets.
S7 (06:01):
By day I slept, and by night I crept out
once more among the dead, heaving out of the earth.
The raw material for my work.
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My creator fashioned for me. Another of my own kind.
A companion that I might not be alone. I looked
on with tears of joy as piece by piece she
was stitched into a being of terrible beauty. To look
on her you would pale. But to these eyes every
bone and ligament was as finest gold. Each night I
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waited and watched. For the moment of awakening.
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What is this?
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Elizabeth. No! Get out!
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I will not. I want to help you. Victor. Why
won't you let me help you?
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You cannot. Such work does not befit a woman.
S6 (07:03):
How then can it be fit a man? Show me.
S7 (07:06):
No, please!
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Wait! Let me go! Let me see.
S7 (07:11):
Listen to me, Elizabeth. I did it!
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What did you do?
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I can command life as God above.
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That is not possible.
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But it is, Elizabeth. I have done it.
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Show me. I want to see you.
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No. You cannot.
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And why is that? I'm already here, Victor. Move aside
and let me see.
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He is.
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He is detestable. He is an abomination. Unfit for human eyes.
S6 (07:47):
Nonsense. If you have given life to the lifeless, then
you have wrought a thing of beauty. Victor. The appearance
of it is a small matter.
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He is a murderer. Elizabeth.
S6 (08:00):
This. Is this the source of your distress? All I
see lies dead upon your table.
S7 (08:07):
Not this. This is another.
S6 (08:12):
Another? What do you mean?
S7 (08:15):
He demands it, Elizabeth. And I have sworn it to
him who demands.
S6 (08:22):
What are you talking about? Be sensible and explain it
to me. You sound like a madman.
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From behind Elizabeth, the creature emerges from the shadows. All
his attention is bent upon Victor's unfinished new work.
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The Lord God said.
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It is not good that man should be alone. I
will make for him a helper to be his wife.
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Stay back.
S6 (08:51):
Can you speak with me?
S7 (08:52):
Elizabeth! Come away.
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What is your name?
S8 (08:56):
My name is his to conjure. For who can name himself?
It is his to choose if mine be hatred or
else be love. And upon his choice hangs the ruin.
Or the life of all. The neighborhood of man.
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Choice. What choice?
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I have already.
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Agreed to your pact. Begone! Or I may think of
it again and alter my course.
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The creature seizes Elizabeth by the arm.
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Fulfill your promise.
S8 (09:32):
My wedding night awaits. And with it, your absolution.
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The creature pushes Elizabeth towards Victor and vanishes into the shadows.
S7 (09:44):
Are you harmed? Did he hurt you?
S6 (09:46):
Armed. I am entranced. You made this being. Its life
is from your hands.
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I confess it, I knew not what I did, and
I would unmake it if I could. Can you forgive me?
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Forgive you? Victor, this is a miracle, a miracle. You
have done what only God may do. I know not
whether it is blasphemy or some high art, but it
is unparalleled in the science of man. And now you
are making another a woman.
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He demands it of me. If I withhold from him
a companion, he will desolate the earth. He is powerful, Elizabeth,
and his heart is black.
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Oh, the creature I just beheld was not black of heart.
He spoke as a soul bereft of human love. I
heard in his voice an echo of my own. Victor,
for who has not known the despair of loneliness, and
cried out to her maker for its amendment.
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Elizabeth. Do not be swayed. He has no kindness in him,
and he is murderous.
S6 (10:58):
What murder has he done?
S7 (11:02):
William.
S6 (11:05):
What?
S7 (11:06):
He slew William in his rage, and Justine has hung
for it.
S6 (11:11):
That cannot be.
S7 (11:13):
It is. I swear it.
S6 (11:16):
But that's impossible, Victor.
S7 (11:19):
How must I defend my word against an abomination?
S6 (11:24):
If this is so, then why did you not speak?
S7 (11:30):
I tried.
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You tried?
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What was I to say? Should I have confessed that
I delved in graveyards like a heretic and fashioned a
creature out of the freshly dead? Should I have told
them that I gave a brute the gift of life,
and in return it gorged its evil upon an innocent blood.
My name would have been mocked for a madman. And
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yet still would Justine have hung.
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Yet you told not even me. Victor.
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Is it not the burden of prudence to keep silent?
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Prudence?
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For your sake, Elizabeth, for your sake.
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You suggest that a woman has hanged for my sake.
And I ought to thank you for it. Oh! Oh, God.
Poor Justine. Oh.
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You do not understand. You cannot.
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You are right, Victor. I do not understand. You tell
me you have sinned in the making of this creature.
But to have abandoned Justine to know the truth and
keep it for yourself. Such silence Broods are cold and
cruel iniquity. Victor. And I am ashamed to see it
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rooted in the man I am, to where.
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I had no choice. Elizabeth.
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Every turn you push me away. You drive me out.
You close yourself off. You sequester yourself with corpses rather
than share your passion with the beating heart of one
who loves you.
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Elizabeth. Please, I.
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You must love in return, Victor.
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I do.
S7 (13:17):
Elizabeth I do.
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Oh! I have been a fool. Perhaps it is fitting
that I am to wed a fool as well. Oh,
for your father's tender heart I will not break our betrothal.
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But be you sure that when you visit me upon
our wedding night, it will be a cold bed that
greets you?
S7 (13:54):
Elizabeth, please. I should have confided in you. I should have.
S6 (14:00):
There is to be forgiveness. It will come in some
distant time that I cannot yet see. Goodbye, Victor. Dabble
with your miracles. I will see you when we are wed.
S12 (14:22):
Elizabeth.
S7 (14:25):
Cursed work. Surely I am wedded to misery.
S8 (14:31):
Initial work. Frankenstein. And I'll quit you forever.
S7 (14:37):
Then let us to it.
S3 (14:39):
In a wall of macabre creativity, Victor labors at his table,
fulfilling his oath, and as he does so, Alphonse tends
to wedding preparations while Elizabeth is made ready by Alphonse.
So too is the creature's bride, made ready by Victor.
S5 (14:59):
The wedding will be in the old church. It is
the very place I was wed and my parents before me.
S6 (15:06):
Yes, uncle.
S5 (15:08):
You must call me father now. And I shall call
you daughter. The days are few before it shall be
lawfully so.
S6 (15:17):
Yes, father.
S5 (15:18):
We must summon the dressmaker. I will spare no expense.
S6 (15:23):
Yes, father.
S5 (15:25):
So for her a gown of purest white. May Elizabeth
will be made to shine like a jewel.
S13 (15:33):
It shall be my finest work.
S5 (15:35):
You must be Squeeze it.
S6 (15:38):
Yes, father.
S4 (15:40):
And at the appointed time, the bride and groom will
process to the altar. Here. Thou shall be spoken and
the marriage consecrated.
S5 (15:50):
Do you understand, my dear?
S6 (15:52):
Yes, father.
S5 (15:54):
To morrow will be a day of great joy. You
have made me a happy man, my dear. We will
make of you a true Frankenstein.
S6 (16:06):
Yes, father.
S3 (16:08):
Victor completes his work and attaches the apparatus of tubes
and wires to the bride's lifeless limbs. Then he raises
the syringe of glowing serum in preparation for the moment
of her awakening.
S7 (16:25):
I raise the bride to rid the world of the
curse I have loosed upon it.
S10 (16:31):
Flesh like my flesh.
S8 (16:35):
Yours shall be all the love and care that was
denied me. You shall be beloved. The wild reaches of
creation shall be our home, and we will live and
love and bear children as all things do, and shall
neither think on us, nor trouble us any longer. It
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is your word, Frankenstein. Fulfil your covenant.
S7 (17:09):
Let there be children, said you nothing of your children.
S8 (17:17):
What of it? If any offspring come of our union,
it will be of no concern of yours or any man.
S7 (17:23):
Will God forgive me if I am cause for the
creation of a race of devils?
S10 (17:28):
Wake her.
S7 (17:29):
What right have I to inflict such a curse upon
everlasting generations?
S8 (17:34):
Generation waking.
S7 (17:34):
Her. The future ages will curse me. Whose work imperil
the whole human race? Waking her to the name of
Frankenstein cannot be recalled in infamy. You ask too much.
S3 (17:45):
Victor smashes the syringe on the floor. The serum spills
across the floor and its glow is extinguished.
S8 (17:56):
You dare break your oath? Will you make of me
your Satan rather than your atom?
S7 (18:01):
I do break my promise. Never will I create another
like yourself.
S8 (18:06):
Have you forgotten what power I possess? What strength? You
are my creator. But I am your master now. Obey.
S7 (18:14):
The hour of my resolution is past. I am inexorable.
S14 (18:19):
Now. Wake up! Call it a life, I command it.
S3 (18:26):
The creature gathers his bride into his arms. He shakes her.
He breathes his own breath into her. He presses his
face against her breast and rubs her flesh to warm it.
But nothing will coax her into life.
S14 (18:43):
Teach me the murder of your work. I will do it.
Do not send me into the world alone. You made me,
but you made me. Only in half. Complete the work
you began.
S7 (18:57):
I have declared to you my intent. My labors are finished. Farewell.
S14 (19:05):
Ah ah! Ah!
S8 (19:17):
We are not finished, Frankenstein! We are.
S14 (19:22):
Not finished.
S3 (19:33):
The creature carries his bride into the night as his
wails recede into the distance. Victor approaches the church on
the morning of his wedding day. He stands before the
altar to receive his bride, as he once stood before
his operating table to deliver a bride to another.
S4 (19:54):
O God, who in creating the human race will that
man and wife should be one, join these in the
covenant of marriage, so that they may become witnesses to
charity itself. Amen. Who gives this woman to be wed
to this man is.
S5 (20:15):
God gave Eve to Adam. So do I give Elizabeth
to Victor?
S7 (20:21):
I, Victor take you, Elizabeth, for my wife to have
and to hold, to love and to cherish until death
do us part.
S6 (20:35):
I, Elizabeth, take you, Victor, for my husband to have
and to hold, to love and to cherish until death
do us part.
S4 (20:47):
May you be witnesses in the world to God's charity,
so that the afflicted and needy who have known your kindness,
May 1st day receive you into the eternal dwelling of God. Amen.
What God has put together, let no man put asunder.
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Go forth in the name of the Lord.
S3 (21:12):
Victor attempts to kiss Elizabeth, but she turns away coldly.
The ceremony ends, and with no words spoken between them,
they arrive at the wedding bower and enter.
S7 (21:30):
Elizabeth. Elizabeth.
S6 (21:36):
Do not speak. Let no words disturb us now.
S7 (21:43):
Am I forgiven.
S6 (21:47):
To forgive the journey? Today is but a step.
S7 (21:53):
Then I have yet hope.
S6 (21:59):
I cannot hate you, my Victor, my husband. So let
us begin tonight to create a new love from what
has died. Death unto rebirth is the way of all life.
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It will be our way as well.
S7 (22:23):
There is nothing hidden between us. I will be a
new man. Elizabeth. Your creation.
S3 (22:32):
Suddenly, a shadow passes at the window.
S7 (22:36):
He cannot enter.
S3 (22:38):
Victor runs to the door, opens it and looks out,
but seeing nothing, he closes it again and locks it.
He paces the room anxiously.
S6 (22:49):
There is no one here, Victor. Only you and I.
S7 (22:54):
Know.
S6 (22:54):
Victor.
S3 (22:56):
Victor draws a pistol from the dresser drawer and points
it around the room wildly.
S7 (23:01):
Get away!
S6 (23:02):
Victor, what is this?
S7 (23:04):
He stalks me. Elizabeth, did you hear him? Did you
see a shadow passing? These are my secrets in the flesh.
S6 (23:12):
I heard only the wind on the window. So only
a flash of firelight on the curtain. There is no
trouble here.
S7 (23:21):
I want to believe you. But you cannot know how
he hates me. I live ever in the foreshadow of
his appearance.
S6 (23:31):
Be at peace, Victor. Love alone can quiet terror. Mine
shall conquer yours. Did you fulfill your promise to him?
S7 (23:45):
I could not, and now I fear him as never before.
S6 (23:51):
Listen to me. You are my husband. I am your wife.
We will kindle a new life between us. We shall
be blessed with children to love and cherish and train
up in kindness and knowledge. We will withdrawal to the country. And.
S8 (24:13):
No.
S7 (24:15):
Go away! Devil! Do not threaten what is dearest to me.
You will rue it.
S8 (24:22):
You would take for yourself Self that which you would
deny me.
S7 (24:26):
My oath I have broken, I confess it. For no
oath can be held between a man and an abomination.
S8 (24:32):
You dissemble the God you worship, bound himself to a
covenant with your kind, even unto his death. Are you
not made in his image?
S14 (24:42):
I will not hear you.
S7 (24:44):
You have no right to speak of gods and men.
S8 (24:47):
Where your god to you, as you have been to me.
Only his ruin would slake your hatred. Who then am
I to rise higher than my maker?
S7 (24:56):
You delight to talk to me as if you look
down upon me from a righteous throne. But you are
not my judge. I made you, I stitched you out
of better men. And the best of you is no
more than the tatters they left behind.
S8 (25:14):
Then tell me why, Frankenstein. Why did you make me
not to love, not to cherish, But to torment. To hate. Why, Frankenstein? Why.
S7 (25:29):
I hail you. No defense.
S6 (25:31):
Victor, put the pistol down.
S8 (25:33):
Seed was planted that germinated within you. What grew up
of the mine grew and enfleshed itself in my past
work form.
S15 (25:42):
You are a child of science. Nothing more, nothing more.
S7 (25:48):
His Inquisition's pierced me. They plundered my soul. And even
as he asked it, I felt that his soundings had
divined some hidden shape within me. Some primal cause for
which I was merely the effect and destined result.
S3 (26:07):
Invictus. Distress. A wave of memories surge within him and
materialized before his eyes.
S7 (26:15):
Father.
S5 (26:19):
He's awake. I think he wants his mother. Caroline. My son.
S7 (26:26):
Mother.
S6 (26:28):
Look at him. Look at his eyes.
S16 (26:32):
He sees me. How lovely. Such intelligence.
S5 (26:37):
What a magnificent thing we have made.
S16 (26:40):
He is our creation. Whom to bring up to God,
and whose lot it is in our hands to direct
towards happiness.
S7 (26:48):
My mother, a creature of absolute grace and charity.
S16 (26:54):
Victor. Victor, come and see me. Oh.
S5 (26:58):
A surprise for you.
S16 (27:00):
She will be with us now. Not a sister, exactly,
but a cousin. Perhaps a companion for you. We must
make her happy, Victor.
S5 (27:10):
She is bereaved of her family. Therefore we shall be
hers in all ways. And love her like our own.
S16 (27:18):
Come, child. Tell him your name. Let us minister to
you with kindness.
S6 (27:25):
I am Elizabeth. I am Elizabeth.
S5 (27:28):
Another boy.
S17 (27:29):
He is beautiful.
S16 (27:32):
Victor! Come quickly. Listen to me.
S7 (27:37):
Are you well? Mother! What's wrong?
S16 (27:41):
I must leave you, I fear.
S7 (27:43):
What?
S16 (27:44):
Care for the victor. Why, Elizabeth? For your father. For
little William. You will make me proud, won't you?
S7 (27:55):
Where are you going? What do you mean? When are
you coming back?
S16 (28:00):
You are a Frankenstein, Victor. Remember that. Make me proud.
Make me proud.
S5 (28:11):
What's going on? What did she say? Caroline. Caroline.
S7 (28:17):
Mother.
S14 (28:18):
Caroline.
S4 (28:20):
All who have died in Christ will rise with him
on the last day. We give you thanks, O Lord.
You are the resurrection and the life. Amen.
S17 (28:36):
Hush, little William. She is gone to God. Hush, my son.
S5 (28:46):
Would that we had done something more for her. Now
we shall dwell always in the shadow of her passing.
S16 (28:57):
You are a Frankenstein.
S3 (29:04):
The ghosts of Victor's past dissipate into shadow, and before
him looms the monstrous result of his life's work.
S8 (29:13):
Answer me! Why was I made? And to what end?
S7 (29:17):
My reasons are my own. They are no concern of yours.
S8 (29:21):
No concern? They are my chief. And only concern. For
in them lie the foundations of my crude conception. Look
at me. My scars are written in my flesh. You
are their cause. And they are the instruments by which
every step is mapped. But where are your scars, Frankenstein?
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You secret them away where they cannot be seen. Though
they steer you as surely as a ship is driven
by a gale. Why tell me why you stitched me
into being.
S7 (29:56):
Concern yourself with this. I have made you. And I
will unmake you the same. Ah.
S6 (30:03):
Victor.
S8 (30:10):
You are no almighty God, for you cannot undo what
you have made and neither will you redeem it.
S3 (30:18):
The creature tears open his coat, digs the spent shot
from his flesh, and tosses it at Victor's feet.
S8 (30:27):
I am your God now. For in my hands is
all your future to give or to withhold.
S7 (30:33):
You blaspheme. I will not hear you.
S6 (30:37):
Then I will hear you.
S7 (30:39):
Elizabeth, wait! Come behind me and let me deal with him.
His whole nature is governed by hatred.
S6 (30:45):
How can the wretched be otherwise? Unless by love, or
at least by kindness?
S8 (30:50):
If I am wretched, it was he that made me so.
S6 (30:53):
Then perhaps the twisted iron may be reworked. Come, speak,
and let us see you.
S7 (31:04):
Do not approach her. She cannot bear your odious form.
S6 (31:11):
You are Magnificent. Elizabeth.
S7 (31:16):
Listen to me.
S6 (31:18):
Your form is not lovely. But in your eyes hide
storms of pain and grief.
S8 (31:27):
What? Know you of pain or grief?
S6 (31:30):
I know of a family lost and a husband slipping away.
What is more human than to feel grief? To suffer pain.
To shudder in one's loneliness and cry out for relief.
S8 (31:49):
You think me human.
S6 (31:51):
If my victim made you, then you must be. Oh,
you think him cruel, but you know him not. He
is kind and curious and eager. I have seen these
in him all his life.
S8 (32:09):
He. He has consigned me to solitude. What kindness does
he claim for his creation, whom even he cannot love?
S15 (32:16):
Elizabeth, move!
S6 (32:19):
Victor, enough!
S8 (32:24):
Have you forgotten the strength you knit into my form?
I do not die as easily as man. Shall I
show you?
S3 (32:33):
The creature seizes Elizabeth.
S7 (32:37):
Leave her.
S15 (32:37):
Be.
S8 (32:38):
And how shall I leave her? Shall I leave you
a bride as you left mine? Shall I leave you
a wife to cleave to? Or shall I grant you
a torment to answer my own?
S6 (32:49):
Wait. Listen. Be calm. Did you not harm her?
S15 (32:56):
Please.
S8 (32:57):
What say you, woman? How should the creation answer his
creator with the kindness of his natural state, or with
the cruelty that has shaped him?
S7 (33:08):
Please unhand her. Yeah, I beg you.
S6 (33:13):
If the want of kindness governs your heart, then treat
with him no more. Look to me. I am unafraid.
The charity of the human heart can offer its embrace
even to one such as you.
S8 (33:31):
So I believed once. But man has proven himself unequal
to the lies of righteousness. Hatred is man's answer to
the innocent brutality. His gift to the gentle and exile
is his sentence upon the desolate. Your victor is my
maker and my teacher. Look on me and see reflected
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the abyss within his heart. In his unholy image. Am
I made?
S6 (34:02):
You cannot see it. But there is light within him.
Yet I see that light in you also. Me invades
us all and goodness is with evil mixed yet of
a man's heart. His sins are not the sum.
S7 (34:23):
Elizabeth.
S6 (34:25):
Be silent. Victor.
S8 (34:26):
Would that my creator had shown me the smallest portion
of kindness. In that event, my ruin might have been avoided,
my redemption won, and with it his. But look at him.
He grovels like a worm and reeks of his sin.
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Even now he cannot love his creature as he made him,
and neither will he pity him, the manner of his making.
S6 (34:53):
Then let us love him till he mends.
S8 (34:56):
You would have me love him.
S7 (35:00):
Elizabeth.
S6 (35:01):
I would to love another who will not love in
return is to gain the highest fortune for it. In
loving we discover the amendment of our heart and not
in being loved.
S8 (35:14):
You do not understand. You cannot.
S6 (35:16):
I understand this. The beauty of a broken heart is
written in the scars of which it heals.
S7 (35:26):
Elizabeth, what are you doing? He cannot be reasoned with
to stand aside that I may finish him.
S8 (35:32):
Do you.
S7 (35:32):
See?
S8 (35:33):
From death he brought forth life. And now in life
he calls forth only death.
S6 (35:39):
Listen to me, please.
S8 (35:41):
In his malice, our creation and destruction met. His paradox
cannot hold. So it must be broken.
S6 (35:49):
Please let kindness conquer terror. These scars can be your glory. Come,
tell us your name.
S3 (36:07):
The creature opens his mouth to speak, but Victor draws
a knife and thrusts it into his back. The creature
roars in pain, then enraged.
S6 (36:19):
Wait.
S3 (36:20):
He snaps Elizabeth's neck and tosses her lifeless body onto
the bed.
S8 (36:30):
You are, answered Frankenstein, in the only tongue you comprehend.
I shall await the stroke of your revenge.
S7 (36:41):
Elizabeth. Elizabeth.
S3 (36:45):
Victor shakes her. He rubs her arms as if to
awaken her. He lays his head against her breast and sobs.
But nothing will coax her back into life. Victor gathers
her into his arms and carries her from the room
in tears. A short time later, Alphonse opens the door
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and ushers in a police inspector.
S5 (37:12):
Here's the room.
S18 (37:14):
She was killed there.
S5 (37:15):
He said. A monstrous being leapt from the window and
slew her.
S4 (37:22):
And then what happened?
S5 (37:24):
He said the creature leapt again through the window and
was gone.
S4 (37:31):
A precipitous fall. Would you lead me to speak with
your son?
S19 (37:36):
He is stricken with grief.
S5 (37:40):
Victor.
S7 (37:41):
Who are you?
S4 (37:42):
Are you going somewhere, sir?
S7 (37:44):
My wife's murderer is loosed on the world. Wherever he goes,
I pursue.
S4 (37:49):
Yes, a monstrous beast.
S7 (37:51):
Was it more evil than you can imagine?
S4 (37:54):
I would like to talk plainly, sir. At the magistrate's office.
S7 (37:59):
Perhaps it is a tale so strange. I fear you
would not credit it. You must trust me and follow.
I will lead your men in the hunt.
S4 (38:09):
But who can follow a creature who leaps upon buildings
or falls without arm? What true pursuit do you suggest
we give if such a creature exists?
S7 (38:19):
My gentle wife lies dead, crushed in the grip of
a monster. If you are too cowardly, sir, then begone
and let better men do your job.
S4 (38:31):
I think the monster has perhaps not left the scene.
Can we be sure he has? Not in this room, sir.
S7 (38:38):
What?
S5 (38:39):
What? What do you mean?
S7 (38:42):
You think me mad? You think I have devised a
demon of convenience and laid upon him the slaying of
my wife?
S4 (38:49):
I wish only to discuss the facts, sir.
S7 (38:52):
I have given you the facts, sir. And I will
not be accused. I confess that William and Justine and
Elizabeth all perished because of my actions.
S5 (39:01):
But They? What? What is your meaning?
S7 (39:04):
I am not their murderer, father. I am no monster.
But ere I die, I shall be their avenger. Now, sir,
clear my way.
S5 (39:14):
You will explain yourself.
S4 (39:16):
Stand down! Sir.
S3 (39:17):
The inspector draws a pistol and aims it at Victor.
S7 (39:21):
I cannot.
S3 (39:22):
Victor flees and the inspector fires his weapon. The shot
seems to strike its mark, but Victor is only briefly
hindered as he vanishes into the night to pursue his enemy.
S14 (39:34):
Victor.
S5 (39:36):
What have you.
S14 (39:37):
Done.
S5 (39:38):
Victor?
S8 (39:45):
Ah! Who now is the creator and who the created?
I fashioned you in my own image and in your
misery I take my soul. Delight, calm face me.
S14 (39:59):
Do you not dare.
S8 (40:01):
Come, my enemy, we are entered upon a journey. And
only your suffering will satisfy my rage.
S7 (40:11):
North. Ever north. He led me down the mountain halls,
through cathedral forests, across icy prairies and solid seas. Until
at last upon your ship I fell.
S8 (40:29):
And here we are.
S7 (40:30):
And here we are.
S5 (40:33):
And here we are. You are right, Frankenstein. We are
in many ways the same passion and ambition course in
our veins. We might have been friends had our destinies
been otherwise. You though your deeds are brute. And your
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form grotesque. Tisk to hear your tale. And judge is hard.
Wretched though you are. Confess. You claim a measure of
my pity.
S7 (41:12):
Pity?
S5 (41:13):
Yes, pity. In truth, I pity you both. For in
Hatred's grip you are equally snared.
S8 (41:22):
Then, for hatred's sake, let us make an end of it.
S7 (41:25):
Long have I waited to enact my vengeance. Therefore, behold,
I will wait a moment longer that I may persuade
some other of my virtue.
S8 (41:37):
My wrath is eternal. Your tales will not exhaust it.
S7 (41:42):
You have heard my tale. You have seen that I
am guiltless except in the consequences of my actions.
S14 (41:50):
Guiltless.
S7 (41:52):
And now, as I reflect on my achievements, I rank
myself with the names of all great scientific endeavor.
S8 (42:01):
All praise the great man he ranks himself.
S7 (42:05):
My aim was full of glory, was it not? I overcame,
I achieved what man has only ever dreamed. For this
my name is raised up to heaven. Do you see it?
I shall be hailed as a benefactor of the species.
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My name belonging to that great company who toiled for
the benefit of all mankind.
S8 (42:34):
For the benefit of.
S14 (42:35):
All.
S8 (42:35):
Mankind. All praise Frankenstein.
S7 (42:40):
Therefore, press onward to the pole. Do not return to
your families in disgrace. Return as heroes who fought and
conquered and who did not turn away from the foe.
Return and claim your glory. But what of mine? You
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wonder what of Victor Frankenstein?
S14 (43:09):
Yes. Tell us.
S8 (43:11):
Let us hear more of him.
S7 (43:13):
My foe is now before me, and I shall meet him.
And though he slay me, he cannot take from me
my name.
S8 (43:22):
Come then, thou faultless God. Let us try your courage.
Overcome me, and your fame will be complete.
S3 (43:30):
Victor and his creation square off and circle one another.
But just as their combat is about to begin, Victor
slips to the deck in exhaustion.
S7 (43:44):
Mine is a great and solitary height. And so must
be my fall. My spirit reigns. Like the archangel who
aspired to omnipotence. I am descended to eternal hell.
S3 (44:07):
Victor pulls back his coat and reveals the festering wound
of the inspector's gunshot.
S7 (44:13):
The villain's aim was true.
S14 (44:16):
What? No.
S5 (44:17):
He is wounded. Fetch him below quickly!
S14 (44:20):
It is too late.
S7 (44:22):
My life light darkens.
S8 (44:25):
You cannot die. I have not ordained it.
S7 (44:28):
My sufferings near their end. You cannot prolong them further.
S8 (44:34):
Stop his.
S14 (44:34):
Wound, I.
S8 (44:35):
Command it.
S7 (44:36):
Listen. That he should live to be an instrument of evil.
Disquiets me when I am gone. Draw your blade and
thrust it into his heart. My spirit shall hover near.
I shall direct you, Steele. All right then, with him,
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all my hatred dies.
S3 (45:00):
One of the sailors readies a knife.
S5 (45:02):
Hold.
S7 (45:05):
The forms of the beloved dead. Before me. He hastened
to their ready arms. Oh, Elizabeth. Forgive. Oh!
S5 (45:23):
Uh. He is gone.
S8 (45:27):
He cannot die. Not yet. No, no.
S14 (45:36):
No.
S3 (45:39):
As the creature falls to his knees and gathers up
Victor's body, a sailor steps forward with his ready knife.
S20 (45:46):
Go on. Do it now. Make no move.
S5 (45:49):
Stand back!
S8 (45:51):
Bear witness in his death. My crimes are consummated in
the misery of my being. Whence to its close. You are.
S14 (46:09):
Right.
S8 (46:12):
It was hatred kept us snared. We sought our satisfaction
in revenge. And now we've eaten up its meager meal. Frankenstein.
What would it avail to ask you to pardon me?
(46:33):
I am more wretched than ever I was, for I
have no God from whom to seek my absolution.
S13 (46:41):
Kill him! Captain Winthrop.
S5 (46:44):
Your creator is gone. But to confess is to hope
for an amendment of life. Speak your piece. We will
hear it.
S8 (46:56):
When I think on my sins, I scarce believe that
I am the same creature whose thoughts were filled with
goodness once. I dreamed that should one being grant me kindness,
than for her sake I would quench my hate. And
yet I slew her in my rage. I devoted my
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creator to misery and pursued him to his ruin. And
so he lied. White and cold in death. But my
crimes are near complete. And justice needs but one more death.
(47:41):
You fetch the timber in heaved onto the ice.
S20 (47:46):
What?
S13 (47:47):
Me?
S8 (47:48):
If you wish to live, obey.
S20 (47:51):
Do as he says.
S3 (47:52):
The sailors throw the wood that they have brought with
them out onto the ice, and the monster gathers it,
as he did for Felix and Agatha, and stacks it
into a pile.
S8 (48:05):
Stow away your fear, for upon this icy waste I
shall collect my funeral pyre. And consume to ashes this
miserable form. In the world first dawned upon me. I
should have wept to die. Now it is my only consolation.
S3 (48:28):
The creature removes from his coat a single flower and
gives it to Captain Winthrop. Then he retrieves the lantern
from the mast and places it beside the pyre.
S8 (48:40):
You're the last these eyes will ever see. Oh, well. Frankenstein.
Blast it, though.
S14 (48:50):
Thou, when thou.
S8 (48:52):
Wert my only God.
S14 (48:53):
And king. My only enemy and my only companion.
S8 (49:01):
Maker of both my misery. And my joy. But let
us do it.
S3 (49:12):
The creature lifts Victor's body into his arms.
S5 (49:15):
Wait. Is there no other way?
S8 (49:20):
We abound, he and I, in courts indissoluble even by death.
S5 (49:26):
Then give us at least your name that we may remember.
S14 (49:35):
We name.
S8 (49:38):
I once dreamed of a name written upon a white stone.
But whatever meaning is in dreams. Is for some other
to discover. For alas, my dreaming ends.
S14 (49:53):
We ascend.
S8 (49:54):
Our funeral.
S14 (49:54):
Pyre.
S8 (49:55):
To exalt into the agony of flames. Our ashes shall
scatter over the deep. Until the sun upon some better
world shall dawn. Until that day.
S14 (50:08):
Far distant and far better.
S8 (50:12):
We are embraced in death.
S3 (50:16):
The creature smashes the lantern against the pyre and gathers
Victor into a final embrace as the flames consume them.
The sailors look on in silence. They remove their hats
and cross themselves, while Captain Winthrop backs away and considers
the flower in thought.
S5 (50:37):
How could I absolve him? I would do it. His
was a singular and desolate grief.
S18 (50:49):
May God have mercy. The ice has broken the ships
free resale. We aim her north.
S21 (51:01):
Three sails.
S5 (51:02):
And belay that order. Captain Turner.
S14 (51:05):
South.
S5 (51:06):
Sir. You heard me.
S18 (51:08):
But, sir, what about the pole?
S14 (51:11):
What about the fortune and glory of discovery?
S5 (51:14):
Fortune, glory! Have you no ears to hear? We've witnessed
here a wonder, son. And by its dying light, we'll
set ourselves some better course than that of Victor Frankenstein.
S2 (51:50):
This has been an Oasis audio recording of Frankenstein, a
stage adaptation by A.S. Peterson recorded by Joe Trentacoste at
Sound Emporium Studios. Post-production by Adam Hassell. Text copyright 2020
by A.S. Peterson. Audio production copyright 2020 by Oasis Audio,
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a division of Oasis Family Media, under license from A.S.
Peterson for Oasis Audio. I'm Rebecca Kaye Reynolds. Thank you
for listening.
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