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holy fucking idiots
Knowledge is knowing Frankenstein wasn't the monster.
Wisdom is knowing he was.
Hate when people say this. The monster does horrible things to innocent people, whereas Victor doesn't really do anything out of malice. And everyone always talks about what a fine gentleman Victor is every time they mention him.
Moreover the quote is basically, "knowledge is repeating a fact you heard somewhere, wisdom is repeating a glib misinterpretation you heard somewhere"
Tongue was pretty far planted in cheek as I was saying this.
Pedantry is asserting that as Dr. Frankenstein's creation/child the monster should by all rights be called Mr. Frankenstein.
And I gave my heart to know wisdom, madness and folly, and I perceived that all is vanity and vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow.
Oh this shit again
THE ENTIRE POINT OF FRANKENSTEIN IS AN ALLEGORY FOR THE ACT OF CREATION
FRANKENSTEIN MADE A LIVING THING WITHOUT CONSIDERING THE RESULT AND IN DOING SO, DROVE HIS CREATION TO ACTS OF MALICE AND MADNESS!
WE ARE ALL MADE VICTIMS, WE ARE ALL MADE MONSTERS!
Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay
To mould me man? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?
I thought this was from the story of the Golem.
It's actually from Paradise Lost by John Milton, Adam says it when he is becoming defiant towards God. It's quite a sad scene and a generally tragic story, but it's my favorite piece of literature. I've never read Frankenstein but I know it's quoted on the title page so thought it was fitting, even though I don't think Milton really thought we were created monsters as much as we become monsters but that's a different question. Even Satan laments and regrets his defiance and secretly admits to himself that God wasn't unfair towards him.
I'm not sure if Milton was influenced by a line from the story of the Golem though.
wow WOKE nerd actually READS BOOK
I was reading chapter books when I was 5, I had to do for myself what my USAan schools refused to
Me too. Started with Treasure Island after I taught myself to read by memorizing the children's books my mom would read to me.
Didn't get to Frankenstein till I was in college but I actually wrote an entire essay on it as an allegory for creation but also as an allegory for man's desire to overcome death by creating something they would come to worship in a sense, in this case scientism.
That's because the USian schools were trying to teach you the winners mindset of delegating your readungs to some egghead at coles notes.
Whoa was Frankenstein actually antinatalist???
More about parental responsibilities really
If Frankenstein had cared more for his creation, then his creation wouldn't have gone off the deep end
I fucking hate Western politics. This culture war shit is just brainrot
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The woman writer made Frankenstein woke, this is why they should've hired fans
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...did they read the book?? You cant really help but feel bad for Adam (he called himself Adam at some point, been a while). He was absolutely right to wanna kill Frankenstein, Frankenstein created him and then was fucking awful about it
Iirc the phrasing is like "I ought to have been thy Adam," so more of him evoking the biblical theme than advancing it as a name he'd like to go by
And also... Bro did kill one child and two adults that had absolutely nothing to do with his anguish. Definitely pitiable but not exactly in the right
orphaned child rejected by society and parents
this says a lot about science and creation of life 
(i also remember feeling very bad for the guy)
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Is this satire? Must be a slow news day if they’re caring about universities discussing books they haven’t read in ways they don’t like. They say that as if they haven’t been trying to do the Draco in Leather Pants trope over the goddamn confederacy or Nazi Germany.
What’s the matter? Not enough brown people to fearmonger over?
It's from 2018, but not satire.
I imagine the following path to publication:
Some Nazi incel STEMlord is forced by the woke SJW cabal to READ a BOOK in COMMIE LITERATURE GE class 
—> whines about it to his shithead parents in the hopes they sue the school for violating his rights —> Shithead parents make a phone call to their friend who writes ragebait articles for a nazi tabloid hoping to ride the coattails into a fox news appearance
Nonwoke take on one of the oldest monster stories of all times: MONSTER BAD AND UGLY AND EVIL KILL IT KILL IT I AM VERY HEROIC 
I bet I could take Frankenstein. He'd be crying because he was woke and respects women and I'd fucking punch him so hard, probably kill him.
All that I once loved lies in a shallow grave.
As long as you're cool, calm, and collected you can just evade and hit weak points. 
They didn’t have BJJ when Frankenstein was invented, I bet I could get him in a chokehold
You might be able to do a CQC hug and then tell him "it's not your fault" as a finisher
when I was in high school I was in the teacher's supply closet and stole a copy of Frankenstein that one of the other classes was reading. I'm 100% sure if I just asked my teacher to borrow a copy she wouldve lent it to me no questions asked. it had this cover art
this is unrelated to the thread but it's a fun little memory I share when I remember Frankenstein is a thing.
oh hey that's the book cover I read it with
that's not Frankensteins monster
that's just some guy
Frankenstein's neighbor.
It looks so much more like Frankenstein's monster than the pop culture thing does.
Information about its appearance in the book: a bigger-than-average human sewn together from large bits of corpses.
That looks like it.
True, much more accurate than Mr Bolt Through The Neck, but in my mind the stitching was always more apparent, and the parts less perfect in their symmetry.
I could be remembering wrongly, but wasn't the creature described as being uncannily attractive? Like maybe not conventionally so, but in some indescribable and uncomfortable way?
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imagine someone taking your picture then telling you "this is for my book about a MONSTROUS FREAK who KILLS PEOPLE"
oh ... okay .... 
Nah nah nah nah, the big brain take here is that this is Poe's law in action and the writer is a plant who's been waiting for their moment.
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