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[–] 127 points 3 years ago (2 children)
  • [–] 86 points 3 years ago* (4 children)

    It's a silly nitpick anyway. The monster, Adam, calls the doctor, Victor Frankenstein, his father. Surnames are inherited, thus they are both Frankensteins.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    Kind of a cop-out, since Dr. Frankenstein is referred to as such in the book and the creature never is.

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  • [–] 47 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    Mary Shelley said herself that there are two monsters in the book and both are named Frankenstein.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    The monster's name is literally Adam Frankenstein

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    No it isn't. He compares himself to Adam once ("I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed") but he never calls himself that. And frankly, considering how much Frankenstein and the monster hated each other I don't think either of them would want to share a name.

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    Finally, some fucking closure

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  • [–] 24 points 3 years ago

    This is my canonical version

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    [–] 13 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    The doctor is a monster for creating the monster.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    We could just call him Adam?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    damn! the handwriting is so perfect

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    Slavoj Žižek's Freudian-Hegelian interpretation of Mary Shelley's story is worth investigating especially in relation to Shelley's family, the French Revolution, and transgressive sexual politics.

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