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[-] Twinklebreeze@lemmy.world 127 points 1 year ago
[-] guy@lemmy.world 86 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Also, it's not uncommon to call a creation after it's creator ("that painting is a Van Gogh"), so calling him "a Frankenstein" works too.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] TeraFloppy@lemmings.world 17 points 1 year ago

Of course, Adam isn't a Doctor.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

He has an honorary doctorate in monsterology from Wharton

[-] Glytch@ttrpg.network 47 points 1 year ago

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

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Ah, Ernest and William, the younger brothers of Victor. Of course, it all makes sense now!

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It's pronounced Ernst

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

The monster's name is literally Adam Frankenstein

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of your Winnie the Pooh is named Edward Bear.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Adam Frankenstein

[-] GitProphet@lemmy.sdfeu.org 28 points 1 year ago
[-] Edge004@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago
[-] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Finally, some fucking closure

[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 year ago

This is my canonical version

[-] NathanUp@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

SpoilerThe real monster is the person who wrote in that book with a pen.

Disgusting... Absolutely disgusting...

[-] Buffaloaf@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago
[-] Dogeek@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

The doctor is a monster for creating the monster.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 20 points 1 year ago

He acknowledged Adam as his son, and Frankenstein is a surname.

The name of the monster is Adam Frankenstein.

[-] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 3 points 1 year ago

Full name: Brigadier General Adam Frankenstein (Mrs)

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

We could just call him Adam?

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I think his name is Maurice, actually.

[-] A7thStone@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Cause he speaks of the pompatus of love?

[-] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 5 points 1 year ago

Let's just go with Space Cowboy, then.

[-] notenoughbutter@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

damn! the handwriting is so perfect

[-] MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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