Supernatural and preternatural are absent.

The horror is that this 'monster' occurs in a completely rational world.

Frankenstein becomes the monster

And the creation becomes the victim

Prior to receiving life the creature is regarded as noble and beautiful but once given life... is rejected.

Victor Frankenstein was brought up in a happy family.
They have a deep consciousness of what they owe towards the being that which give them life (the parents)

and this stands in stark contrast to Frankenstein who has no consciousness over what he has given life.

Frankenstein doesn't see the irony.

The monster is a living rebuke to his maker. Unlike his parents, Dr. Frankenstein is not animated by a spirit or tenderness - rather he is motivated by ambition, the quest for glory. (Which links back to the first bit - DO NOT GO THERE - DO NOT GIVE IN TO THIS FOUL THING)

Mary Shelley - fascinated by the nature/nurture debate. (Am I the way I am because of the way I was raised or because of some natural gift?)

Frankenstrain is an exploration of the influence of literature and learning on the tabula rasa.

It's a self fulfilling prophecy - the monster becomes a monster because we make him one.

It is ironic that Frankenstein contrasts himself with Cleval.

The novel has no omniscient narrator.

Frankenstein is a maze of story telling.

The monster loses his primal innocence through education. Literature teaches him good and evil.

This fall (yet raise in knowledge) makes him aware of himself as an outsider.

"Many times I felt Satan a fitter rendition"

There is a work called monsters from the Yid by E. Michael Jones which talks about the relationship between horror, the emergence of horror in literature from the time of the romantics, and in cinema in the 20th century, the relationship between that and an anxiety between sexual liberation.

One of the themes in these works is the abandonment of a child by the parent.

The ancient mariner - influence

Walton wanted to be a poetic genius. And he fails in this so he compensates in his poetic failure by exploring the Arctic. It is like the exploration of land and sea mirrors the investigations of the poetic way. Analagus.

Walton's quest for knowledge and discovery parallels that of Victor Frankenstein and the monster. But there is an important difference between them.

There is a person who comes to the edge of the abyss and pulls back and there is the one who steps over.

What's the fundamental difference between those two temperaments.

Unlike Victor Frankenstein, Walton turns back from the brink. He turns back to England - to civilisation - back to normality.

Thereby showing that his earlier failure as a poet flowed from his temperament - he doesn't explore and test beyond certain limits - unlike the romantics as they imagined themselves.

Frankenstein by contrast - despite everything he has suffered - never loses the spirit of adventure - and so something that is considered glorious, noble (This pursuit of knowledge) is also shown to have a negative side, by Shelley.