Frankenstein

While I've been familiar with the story of Frankenstein for many years I had never read the book until now. The writing has a very distinctive Victorian era style to it, and while I enjoyed the book overall, my one complaint is how frail all of the characters were made out to be. It was almost ridiculous. Mary Shelly would write about how Frankenstein received bad news and was then stricken ill for several months. This theme of frailty is repeated in numerous instances throughout the book, and it makes me wonder if it was simply a stereotype of the time, that the rich upper class were more fragile than the average person.