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this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2025
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Goddammit! For all those still struggling to understand: Frankenstein's monster didn't create himself. Dr. Frankenstein did. The monster didn't ask to be created and while its' sheer existence was a "crime against nature" the creature itself was innocent. So it logically was a victim of Frankenstein's Faustian ambitions. This simple fact -and its' classic predecessors- of course remain completely ignored by The Sun and its' braindead readers.
It's very much not innocent, it's a serial strangler.
"I murdered her. William, Justine, and Henry—they all died by my hands."
Why does the internet think the monster is innocent? It's there in black and white and we've all read the book.
The gun is also innocent, yet it's used to murder.
Nobody screams to destroy all guns.
The monster is a product, created by a man. In both cases.
A gun in an inanimate object. The monster is a self-described murderer.
"I have murdered the lovely and the helpless; I have strangled the innocent as they slept and grasped to death his throat who never injured me or any other living thing. I have devoted my creator, the select specimen of all that is worthy of love and admiration among men, to misery; I have pursued him even to that irremediable ruin."
Well, it's admittedly been some time I watched any of the various adoptions but didn't the monster inherit some psycho killer's brain? So it has the killers personality but not his memories?
No. There's no mention of who the brain (or any other part) came from. Frankenstein gathered them from various charnel houses.
To some people, the monster's brain comes from Abby Normal.
then why were you acting like you had an opinion on the book in your top-level comment?
The real facepalm is always in the comments. The OP even said elsewhere that he/she hasn't read it.