This dark endeavour6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Konrad is good-natured and blessed with physical and intellectual talent. It’s as though together they make up one person, someone who is the best and the worst of what humanity has to offer. I loved Kenneth Oppel’s dynamic between identical twin brothers Konrad and Victor Frankenstein. But imagine how much more intense that twin relationship is when the twins are identical. Going back to the legendary story of Esau and Jacob in the Bible, where Jacob is born second, grasping Esau’s heel to when Jacob tricks his father into giving him the blessing due his first son by pretending to be Esau, there is the potential for a lot of conflict between twins. Things are complicated by Victor’s inferiority complex and the love triangle that exists between both brothers and Elizabeth, a girl adopted by their parents and raised and educated along side them, but ultimately Victor will do anything to save Konrad from death. Seeking the help from an alchemist rumoured to have saved others, Victor and his friends gather ingredients for an elixir of life that he hopes will save his brother. Raised by liberal parents, Victor is taught to believe in science above all, but when Konrad falls suddenly falls ill and is close to death, Victor turns to alchemy for a cure. ![]() Summary: In the untold story of Victor Frankenstein’s early years, Victor is constantly competing with his older by two minutes twin, Konrad. ![]()
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