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[–] [email protected] 97 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Knowledge is understanding Frankenstein isn't the monster

Wisdom is understanding that Frankenstein is the monster

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein

[–] Bertuccio 2 points 2 months ago

And THAT'S how I got into Juilliard!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ethics is understanding that the reason he's the monster is because he's a neglectful and abusive parent.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Oenology is the understanding that all differences can be resolved by ingesting copious amounts of spirits.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 1 points 2 months ago

More like an absent parent.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Knowledge is having read the book and seeing both parties acknowledge that their relationship is familial, that Frankenstein is a surname, and thus recognizing that there is both the Doctor and Monster Frankenstein.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

They're both Frankenstein, and also they're both monsters. Victor shouldn't have made the monster, and he should've done more to stop it, but the monster was also an asshole. Being treated like a monster doesn't make it okay to act like one.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

And actually reading the book is understanding that Frankenstein wasn't the monster

His biggest crime was abandoning his creation. His creation's biggest crime was the multiple murders

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I'm not going to justify the murders, especially the child, but the common people were beating him everywhere he went. This guy was a genius who just wanted a friend.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 3 points 2 months ago

Frankenstein's biggest crime was allowing Justine to be executed.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago
[–] FlyingSquid 7 points 2 months ago

You weren't even there, man!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Is there a Beetlejuicing community on Lemmy yet?

[–] PlasticExistence 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] somethingsnappy 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Taking a sci fi class right now and the prof made us watch that. Pretty good movie. Part where Frankenstein's Monster shags his wife is a little weird though

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Not in the 70s

[–] FlyingSquid 2 points 2 months ago

Think of it this way- Victor got to shag both Madeline Kahn and Terri Garr.

Lucky bastard.

[–] Pilferjinx 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If I created a monster, I'd like them to inherit my last name.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, there's a pretty decent argument that "Adam" would count as Victor's illegitimate son

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Furthermore, as a creation of Victor Frankenstein, calling the monster "a Frankenstein" is no more inaccurate than calling Guernica "a Picasso," or a 1996 Camry "a Toyota."

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If the monster was the doctor's son (or "son"), wouldn't they have the same surname?

[–] then_three_more 12 points 2 months ago

They didn't have a great relationship. Maybe the monster would prefer to go by it's mother's maiden name.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Does Data Sung have the same surname as his "father"?

[–] pyre 11 points 2 months ago

"Dr. Frankenstein is my father's name. Call me Frank."

[–] werefreeatlast 3 points 2 months ago

I know there's Frankenstein, but is there the opposite? Lyingstein? Desifulstein!