#Ernest Frankenstein (Frankenstein)

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The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) - Pressbook cover

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The Bride Of Frankenstein (1935)

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Writing Prompt: The Last Lines

Choose one of the last lines of these literary works, and either create a new story/poem or continue writing the story...

“He was soon borne away by the waves, and lost in darkness and distance.” —Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)

“After all, tomorrow is another day.” —Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind (1936)

“She looked up and across the barn, and her lips came together and smiled mysteriously.” —John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)

“Are there any questions?” —Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)

“Yes,” I said. “Isn’t it pretty to think so?” —Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (1926)

“She called in her soul to come and see.” —Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

“There was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the air.” —Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899)

“It’s funny. Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.” —J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (1951)

“The eyes and faces all turned themselves towards me, and guiding myself by them, as by a magical thread, I stepped into the room.” —Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (1963)

If this writing prompt inspires you in any way, please tag me, or leave a link in the replies. I would love to read your work!

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Colin Clive, Elsa Lanchester and Ernest Thesiger - The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

Folks often make fun of the fact that Ernest says "my brother" instead of "our brother" during the Frankensteins' reunion after William's death as if throwing shade at Victor but like

There's some 10-ish years age gap between Ernest and William, for Victor and William it's 17. William was most likely not even a year old when Victor left to university and there's been radio silence from him ever since. Victor and William literally don't know each other, for pretty much William's whole life Ernest has been his only brother. It was just the two of them and Liz, Victor was never part of it. So it's natural that Ernest would slip like that.

Victor lost the idea of a brother but Ernest actually lost a brother

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On set of THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935): director James Whale with Colin Clive, Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Thesiger, and a dummy of the Monster

[ancient-me]

The Frankensteins 🥰

[ereyies]

had a silly thought

victor frankenstein never actually explained how he discovered the secret to life and reanimation. and i was thinking 'what if bill cipher was the one who told victor how to successfully reanimate the dead?'

but then that got me thinking of a gravity falls frankenstein au.

what if dipper and mabel were instead replaced by robert walton and his sister margaret. what if stanley was henry clerval or maybe even ernest frankenstein. and stanford was victor frankenstein.

robert and margaret stay with henry/ernest and attempt to solve the mysterious tragedies surrounding the frankenstein family that all link back to one single entity. and eventually victor is brought back/found (?) from some place idk maybe ingolstadt rather than an entirely different dimension. and we slowly learn about his mistakes his 'monster', who has been the cause of all these tragedies and nearly even more catastrophic losses the same way we find out about bill and ford's history (but instead of it being romantic it's more familial). bill cipher in this au being frankenstein's creature.

the creature and victor probably did work just fine originally but soon their dynamic broke down as victor kept him strictly sheltered and held him back significantly from what he was more capable of, and when the creature attempted to go outside he was met with only cruelty and instead of crawling back to victor, he is bitter and resentful at being made the way that he was and became a being of chaos.

i would draw out some concept sketches but i have like 5 art requests i still need to do so if anyone wants to draw this out please be my guest. please and thank you and goodnight.

[who-do-i-know-this-man]

Just finished reading Frankenstein (it's good btw) and I can see why someone submitted Ernest, even if he lost round 1. He was mentioned like 2 times in the whole book, and then just kinda disappears. I honestly wonder I missed something cause of how strange it was.

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I'm thinking about Ernest again.

Imagine you grow up surrounded by a loving family (we'll ignore the kind of fucked up things going on there as well). Then your mother dies and your older brother leaves for university and sure that’s sad but eventually live goes on. But a few years later your younger brother gets murdered, seemingly by the housekeeper who is also your cousin's best friend; someone you thought you could trust. She gets executed for it, maybe you think she deserved it, maybe you wonder if she really could have done it, especially since your brother and cousin are convinced she didn’t.

A while after that your brother's dearest friend, who you likely know very well –he visited so often during your childhood that your house is probably like a second home to him– gets murdered somewhere in Ireland. Your brother is accused of the murder and ultimately aquitted, but when he returns he is like an empty shell of his former self. Maybe you wonder what exactly happened back in Ireland, but even of you do, you will never know.

Your brother and cousin get married as your parents had always wished they did but on the wedding night your cousin gets murdered as well.

Shortly after your father dies broken-hearted.

Now you and your brother are the only ones left. You should stay together, work through all the grief and support eachother after everything that happened, right? Afterall you only have eachother.

But your brother leaves. Packs his bags one day without telling you why. Maybe you ask him to stay, maybe he leaves at night when you're sleeping and you wake up to him being gone.

He never returns. The house is empty, you're the only one left there. Halls that used to be filled with laughter are now echoing the sounds of your footsteps as you wander around them feeling lost and alone.

Maybe you find out what happened to your brother. Maybe one day you receive a letter from Russia or England, signed by someone called Robert Walton, telling you your brother died up in the arctic on his ship.

You wonder what brought him there, what was there that led him to desert you, was there any reason he left or did he just run to leave everything behind, to even leave his only living brother?

Maybe you find out, maybe the letter tells you the entire story, your own brother's narration of a horrifying tale, you wonder if you can even believe it. Maybe he has truly gone mad, but it fits with the events perfectly. You don’t know what to think.

But maybe you never find out, maybe you never even get that letter. Maybe you'll spend the rest of your live wondering what happened. What went wrong, so that you are now alone on this earth, robbed of all those you loved? Maybe you'll never know, maybe you'll never find your peace.

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Ernest Thesiger and Colin Clive in The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

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[sandwichhour]

Ernest Frankenstein...if u even give a care,,,,🐠

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Pretorius from Bride of Frankenstein & Horace from The Old Dark House. I drew Pretorius last year, but I wanted to see these two put together because both characters are played by Ernest Thesiger!

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

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