William Kea
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William Kea
He is obsessed with giving birth but has no interest in being maternal. Where Shelley’s Frankenstein is ruled by fear, del Toro’s is governed by Byronic self-aggrandizement. He does not run from the Creature; he imprisons, abuses, and attempts to murder it, furious at its perceived deficiencies.
Byronically
He’s not a distant scholar but a satyr, rooted in the body, lusting after his future sister-in-law, eating like a starving man, hungrily performing his vivisections and surgeries
Byronically
On Victor Frankenstein, from Guillermo Del Toro’s 2025 adaptation of ‘Frankenstein’
bellicose
Byronically
Truculence means a kind of aggressive defiance—being quick to fight, combative, or showing bitter hostility.
If someone is described as “truculent,” they’re not just angry, they’re ready to clash. It carries a sense of raw belligerence, like a stance that dares others to challenge them.
Examples:
A truculent teenager might snarl back at every parental