Retcon

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• Twinklebreeze@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • ooterness@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s such a common mistake. The doctor who creates Mary Shelley in Frankenstein’s novel doesn’t have a name.

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  • creditCrazy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s a ligit good holup picture

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• guy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s a silly nitpick anyway. The monster, Adam, calls the doctor, Victor Frankenstein, his father. Surnames are inherited, thus Adam is a Frankenstein too.

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  • HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee ⁨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.

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  • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Disingenuous, since Dr. Frankenstein is referred to as such in the book and the creature never is.

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    • TeraFloppy@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Of course, Adam isn’t a Doctor.

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• Glytch@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s pronounced Ernst

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  • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The monster’s name is literally Adam Frankenstein

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    • taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨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.

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• GitProphet@lemmy.sdfeu.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  relevant xkcd: xkcd.com/2799/

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  • Edge004@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Also relevant: xkcd.com/1589/

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• usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is my canonical version

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• GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Finally, some fucking closure

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• Buffaloaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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• Dogeek@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The doctor is a monster for creating the monster.

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

    The name of the monster is Adam Frankenstein.

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    • VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Full name: Brigadier General Adam Frankenstein (Mrs)

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• MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Slavoj Žižek’s Freudian-Hegelian interpretation of Mary Shelley’s story is worth investigating especially in relation to Shelley’s family and the French Revolution.

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