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Did you know that Frankenstein was the name of the scientist who created the monster? Not the monster itself?

Posted - March 29, 2017
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  • 7776
    I've known that since I was a child.
      March 29, 2017 8:15 PM MDT
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  • 5614
    At Halloween as a kid when you heard people say "Oh, you're dressed as Frankenstein!" did you say "No, Frankenstein's monster would be correct"?
      March 29, 2017 9:49 PM MDT
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  • 7776
    I was Casper. Never Frankenstein. Frankenstein's monster scared me. This post was edited by Zack at March 30, 2017 5:27 PM MDT
      March 29, 2017 9:51 PM MDT
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  • Of course. How could Frankenstein be Frankenstein's monoster at the same time.
    Scared me silly when I was about 10 years old. 
      March 29, 2017 8:20 PM MDT
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  • 5614
    What was the monster's name? I would've called him Chuck. This post was edited by O-uknow at March 29, 2017 9:44 PM MDT
      March 29, 2017 9:33 PM MDT
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  • 52955
    In the original written work, he was only referred to as "The Monster" or "Frankenstein's Monster".
    ~
      March 30, 2017 6:31 AM MDT
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  • 5614
    .. and Igor the assistant responsible for delivering a damaged brain to the doctor. Things might have turned out better otherwise.
      March 30, 2017 7:58 AM MDT
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  • 22927
    For a long time I equated "Frankenstein" with the monster, yes.

    I finally read the novel at some point in my life and was surprised at how much I liked it ~ and how much it was NOT what I had thought it would be.
    I don't see it as horror at all. I find the novel practically a love story -- the unrequited love of the monster for his creator/doctor. 
    At least, that's my take on it.
    :) This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at March 30, 2017 5:28 PM MDT
      March 29, 2017 9:42 PM MDT
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  • Ah, but wasn't Victor Frankenstien the real monster?
      March 29, 2017 10:02 PM MDT
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  • 7776
    That was my understanding.
      March 29, 2017 10:05 PM MDT
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  • 22927
    Mine, too, once I think back on it more.
    :)
      March 29, 2017 10:10 PM MDT
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  • 22927
    My "take" on the novel can support that, too.
    :)
      March 29, 2017 10:09 PM MDT
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  • 5614
    In a way. The story is an example of science run amok and is referenced over and over again every time we figure out how to do something without gaining the wisdom whether or not it should be done at all. Tis a cautionary tale that monsters can be made from the minds of monsters, having no ethics, morals or conscious and drunk on arrogance. This post was edited by O-uknow at February 23, 2019 4:47 PM MST
      March 29, 2017 10:38 PM MDT
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  • That's an interesting point.. Never considered that before you raised it
      March 30, 2017 12:19 PM MDT
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  • 52955

    Yes, and "The" Batman is not "Batman"; The Lone Ranger is not The Long Ranger*; Bruce Lee did not portray The  Green Hornet, but did portray The Green Hornet's assistant and driver; etc.

    *My younger brother used to drive me crazy with that one when we were kids.


    ~
      March 29, 2017 11:07 PM MDT
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  • 22927
    Lone and Long are both wrong.
    :)


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      February 23, 2019 4:50 PM MST
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  • Umm...yes.
      March 30, 2017 6:28 AM MDT
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  • He may have actually been named Frankenstein, but he was a Junior
      March 30, 2017 9:03 AM MDT
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  • 7776
    Yet another thought that never occurred to me.
      March 30, 2017 9:38 AM MDT
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  • 7776
    HEY WAIT!!How do we know if that bride had a vagina?
      March 30, 2017 9:47 AM MDT
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  • 6023
    Yes ... I knew that even before I read the novel.
    And yes, the real "monster" was Frankenstein ... not his creation.
    And the creation was NOT made from body parts of dead people.  Or at least, the novel does not say it was.
      March 30, 2017 9:42 AM MDT
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  • Curt Frankenstein was a really nice older gentleman, kind of shy, who created very interesting surrealistic works of art. Monster he was not.
      March 30, 2017 1:33 PM MDT
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  • "Yes indeed!"
      May 14, 2017 9:18 AM MDT
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