That’s right. Doctor Frankenstein was his father and creator.
It would be rude to refer to the good doctor without the honorific, so it stands to reason if someone mentions “Frankenstien,” they are talking about the monster.
IIRC, when he creates the being (who is obviously also called Frankenstein due to being Frankenstein’s son), he is a university student in the Mary Shelley book. Definitely not a PhD or medicine practitioner.
It’s quite a stretch to say that stitching together some corpses and reanimating the result means the creature is obviously your son and given your surname. If that were the case it would have been specified in the book, and it is not. The creature didn’t even like his creator, so why would he want to be named after him?
You’re correct about his title, though - he was not a doctor in the book.
Antinatalist maybe? The monster didn’t ask to be born into a world that hates him because they find him ugly, his creator denies him what he views as his only chance at happiness by refusing to make a wife for him, he ultimately kills a bunch of people and then himself because he’s angry at humanity… oh god, is the monster the original incel???
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What does that make Frankenstein?
A doctor, didn’t you read the book?
Frankenstein is the monster
That’s right. Doctor Frankenstein was his father and creator.
It would be rude to refer to the good doctor without the honorific, so it stands to reason if someone mentions “Frankenstien,” they are talking about the monster.
Good doctor? No, he was evil, he was the real monster. His creature is the victim
He never got a PhD. Neurotypical screeching.
He wasn’t a doctor in the book.
No, he wasn’t. He dropped out. Didn’t you read the book?
IIRC, when he creates the being (who is obviously also called Frankenstein due to being Frankenstein’s son), he is a university student in the Mary Shelley book. Definitely not a PhD or medicine practitioner.
It’s quite a stretch to say that stitching together some corpses and reanimating the result means the creature is obviously your son and given your surname. If that were the case it would have been specified in the book, and it is not. The creature didn’t even like his creator, so why would he want to be named after him?
You’re correct about his title, though - he was not a doctor in the book.
Deontology in engineering and applied sciences fiction
Antinatalist maybe? The monster didn’t ask to be born into a world that hates him because they find him ugly, his creator denies him what he views as his only chance at happiness by refusing to make a wife for him, he ultimately kills a bunch of people and then himself because he’s angry at humanity… oh god, is the monster the original incel???