Frankenbeans

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• metaStatic@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Knowledge is understanding that Frankenstein isn't the monster.

  Wisdom is understanding that Frankenstein is the monster.

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  • TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    "Instead, Kevorkian leaned in very close — about six inches from my face. ‘Have you read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,’ he asked?

    "I nodded that I had.

    "He said ‘then you know that Frankenstein wasn’t the monster; society was the monster.’

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  • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Right, the peeping Tom was a monster. The Doctor trying to advance Science was not

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• exu@feditown.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  XKCD Frankenstein canon where the monster is called Frankenstein

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  • vale@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    there really is a relevant xkcd for everything

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• YottaDren@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Dr. Frankenstein gave the monster life. Therefore, it should get his last name.

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  • littletoolshed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Part of Frankenstein’s rejection of his creation is the fact that he does not give him a name. Instead, Frankenstein’s creation is referred to by words such as “wretch”, “monster”, “creature”, “demon”, “devil”, “fiend”, and “it”. When Frankenstein converses with the creature, he addresses him as “vile insect”, “abhorred monster”, “fiend”, “wretched devil”, and “abhorred devil”.

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    • Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Typical parent.

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    • JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That sounds like putting the cart before the horse. I would say that Frankenstein Abhors his creation, and does not name it because of it. I don’t think if he’d named it Greg or something, that he’d actually treat His monster any better.

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    • primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Accurate to real life parenting.

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    • YottaDren@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Nah, my mom called me half of these things but I still get the last name

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    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      An abusive parent is still a parent. Unfortunately. The Creature doesn’t have to keep the name, but should be the heir to whatever is left of the family fortune and fortress.

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    • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      And Victor should keep the interpretational sovereignty?

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    • absentbird@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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  • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Definitely, didn’t the monster refer to him as “father” at one point?

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• n3cr0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The “monster” is just the victim in this scene. Dr. Frankenstein was the real monster when he created it.

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  • Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    i think the real argument is that what makes Frankenstein the monster is that he brings a life into this world but doesn’t provide it any guidance. he refuses to be a good father. the sea captain even finds himself quite charmed by how thoughtful, gentle, and caring the unnamed creature is despite his upbringing and decides the northwest passage isn’t worth him dooming his crew based on his philosophical discussion with the creature

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    • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Sounds like a pro choice reading of the novel? Or we shouldn’t overestimate the meaning of biological parents

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  • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The Monster was the half dead creature jerking off in the bushes

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• abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Adam Frankenstein is the name of the creation. Victor Frankenstein however is the monster. Fun fact: he’s not even a Doctor, he was a College Student with too much time on his hands.

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  • Mesophar@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This 1000 times. It wasn’t even ambiguous in the novel.

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  • BlackVenom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I wanted to believe this.

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• Metostopholes@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Image

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• gnutrino@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s pronounced “Fronkensteen”

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• BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Galaxy brain: The monsters name is Abby Normal

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  • mister_flibble@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Image

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• sirico@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The real monster was society…I listen to the smiths and am deep

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  • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The real monster is the abominations we made along the way.

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• myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The doctor was an alcoholic and the monster is just him on a bender. It’s the same person.

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  • Reyali@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Isn’t that Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, not Frankenstein?

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• idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  A…Adam

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  • h3ll3rsh4nks@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Adam von Frankenstein

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• Kenny2999@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The monster lives in all of us.

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If you could blow up the world with the flick of a switch

    Would you do it?

    If you could make everybody poor just so you could be rich

    Would you do it?

    If you could watch everybody work while you just lay on your back

    Would you do it?

    If you could take all the love without giving any back

    Would you do it?

    And so we cannot know ourselves or what we’d really do…

    With all your power

    With all your power

    With all your power

    What would you do?

    The Flaming Lips - All Your Power

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    • antler@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Great song - but the title is “The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song.”

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