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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.
Jeez, tiktok reading comprehension these days.
The creature was innocent. And from the start he had no defense against the monster's machinations.
It's a weird internet-meme that the monster is innocent. Internet-dwellers have been posting that 2018 tweet as confirmation, as though that supercedes the text.
I think you missed the point of the was (past tense) being in italics?
The modern (slash "always has been") point of the story is that Frankenstein's monster created a creature then made it a monster.