Frankenstein
Originally published in 1818
Step into Victor Frankenstein's shoes and make the choices that determine whether you create life, destroy it, or find redemption. An interactive retelling with multiple endings based on your personality.
Frankenstein
What If You Could Defy Death?
By Mary Shelley (1818)
The Original Story
In Mary Shelley’s groundbreaking gothic masterpiece, young scientist Victor Frankenstein becomes obsessed with conquering death itself. After years of secretive experimentation, he succeeds in creating life—but the eight-foot creature that awakens fills him with horror and revulsion. Victor abandons his creation, setting in motion a tragedy that will destroy everything he loves.
The creature, intelligent and sensitive, learns human language and culture while hiding in the shadows. Rejected by all who see him, he becomes consumed with loneliness and rage. He demands Victor create a companion for him, threatening to destroy Victor’s family if he refuses. What follows is a devastating tale of responsibility, rejection, and revenge that spans from Geneva to the Arctic ice.
Shelley’s novel, written when she was just 18 years old, asks profound questions: What do creators owe their creations? Can we defy nature’s laws without consequences? What makes someone human—appearance or the capacity to think and feel?
Your Story: Multiple Paths, Multiple Endings
In this interactive retelling, you step into Victor Frankenstein’s shoes—and your choices will determine the fate of creator and creation alike.
Choose Your Path
Will you pursue the secret of life? Or focus on conventional science, avoiding the dark path that destroyed the original Victor?
When your creation awakens, will you flee in terror? Or stay and take responsibility for the life you’ve made?
Will you tell the truth when an innocent person is accused? Even if no one will believe you?
If the creature demands a companion, will you grant his wish? Or refuse, knowing he’ll take revenge?
Experience Multiple Endings
Your choices lead to dramatically different conclusions:
- 💔 The Gothic Tragedy - Follow Shelley’s original path to its devastating conclusion in the Arctic
- 🤝 The Redemption Arc - What if Victor became the father his creation needed?
- ⚖️ The Path of Justice - When society confronts the creature, who judges whom?
- 💑 The Companion - Could giving the creature love prevent the tragedy?
- 🏛️ The Conventional Life - What if Victor never defied death at all?
- 😢 The Despair - When the weight of loss becomes too much to bear
- 🎯 The Hunter - Creator becomes destroyer in a grim pursuit
- 🌲 The Wilderness - Finding peace through separation and independence
And more…
Discover Your Literary Personality
Throughout your journey, your choices reveal your personality through the MBTI framework:
- Are you practical (Sensing) or imaginative (Intuition)?
- Do you lead with logic (Thinking) or empathy (Feeling)?
- Are you methodical (Judging) or spontaneous (Perceiving)?
- Do you engage (Extraversion) or reflect (Introversion)?
At each ending, discover your unique personality type and what your journey through Frankenstein’s world reveals about how you make decisions.
Ready to Begin?
Every path takes approximately 3-5 minutes to complete, but with over 10 different endings, you’ll want to play multiple times to explore all the possibilities.
Will you create life? Destroy it? Redeem it? The choice is yours.
This interactive adaptation respects Mary Shelley’s original themes while exploring alternate possibilities. Each playthrough reveals new insights into one of literature’s most enduring tales of ambition, responsibility, and what it means to be human.