Thanks. I've found someone who is interested in who's at least attached to academia (in bio/anatomy, so only peripherally related to this, lol) so that might help.
If I don't get a significant amount of my notes up before your next reading of the book, I will say this:
it's very obvious that Victor is an unreliable narrator with his emotional extremes and because of this nearly all readings of him give him the most uncharitable interpretation as possible. However I think there are two important things that all these uncharitable readings miss:
1) Victor finds the creature completely loathsome despite the creature's actual character, so his assessment of the other people around him are unlikely to be accurate either, and
2) people are far more likely to insist they are well when they're actually sick than to claim they are sick when they're not.
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If I don't get a significant amount of my notes up before your next reading of the book, I will say this:
it's very obvious that Victor is an unreliable narrator with his emotional extremes and because of this nearly all readings of him give him the most uncharitable interpretation as possible. However I think there are two important things that all these uncharitable readings miss:
1) Victor finds the creature completely loathsome despite the creature's actual character, so his assessment of the other people around him are unlikely to be accurate either, and
2) people are far more likely to insist they are well when they're actually sick than to claim they are sick when they're not.