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BTW: to get back to Ted's original post:

Frankenstein is a scientist/researcher interested in the mysteries of life (check);

Not in FMBD; he's more interested in switching brains and getting his associate out of an insane asylum to help him with his work. It's CURSE and EVIL that he's interested in the mysteries of life.

he's single-minded about his goals but at no time during the process does he think through the consequences of his actions (check);

You could say that about any mad doctor movie, not just Frankenstein movies

he creates a being which is rejected by society (check)

Wrong; he doesn't create anything but performs a brain transplant. Not the same thing.

which then understandably turns brutal in response (check) holding Frankenstein responsible (check).

turns brutal? Did we see the same movie? He seemed rather meek and hid from his wife at first, afraid to show her his new "body". And of course he blames Frankenstein, that I agree with.

The "monster" rejects society as it rejected him and hunts Frankenstein down to destroy him (check)

In Shelley's book, it's Frankenstein who hunts down the monster, not visa versa. Also the victim (he's not really a monster) doesn't hunt Frankenstein down, just goes outside to drag him back into the flaming house. As one reviewer who liked the movie a lot reports:

"That great idea needed a little more development, and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed rushes to its fiery end far too hastily. The serviceable Roger Corman-style conflagration doesn't resolve the interesting concepts that have been raised. Anna Brandt never really gets to accept or reject her monstrous husband. That could have led to an emotionally transcendant climax of a kind never seen in a Hammer film. Her husband shows her the back door and she exits without fulfilling her character's potential.
Anna's mental deterioration needs another link - we've watched her crumble from the trauma of the rape and the tension of the broken water main. Her terrified and violent reaction to Brandt doesn't really work; it's as if the exemplary plot has been forced to come back into line with humdrum genre expectations - everybody cracks up, dies, kills each other. Vengeful Karl gets konked on the head and chases Frankenstein all the way back to town, only to be konked on the head again and left unconscious on the walkway. A couple of cuts later, his body has disappeared. The movie that makes us think we're on the road to some new horror discovery, turns back at the very last minute."

and causes not only Frankenstein's death but his own as well, by suicide.

But Frankenstein returns in MONSTER FROM HELL, so he doesn't quite kill Frankenstein does he?

BTW: the novel Frankenstein's main theme besides the creation of a monster piece by piece is about abandonment (like someone abandoning a child) and the consequences thereafter. The creature kills those close to Frankenstein and that causes Frankenstein to pursue him to the arctic.