#frankly if you're a fan of the novel frankenstein and you hate the character victor frankenstein i just don't understand | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

ineskew · 6 days ago

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"victor frankenstein was wrong, the creature was right" "no, frankenstein was right and the creature was wrong" they were both right and both wrong. frankenstein abandoned his creation to cruelty and the creature murdered people because of it. it's a complex novel

#frankly if you're a fan of the novel frankenstein and you hate the character victor frankenstein i just don't understand #he certainly made bad choices but he's written pretty sympathetically. and more importantly he's self-aware #i feel like broadly speaking the preponderance of haters is due to those who haven't read the book and are going on popular knowledge of it #plus the people who take things too literally and act like the creature is canonically named adam #but seriously it's annoying to go into the notes of any frankenstein post and find people bashing the protagonist #while pretending the creature never did anything wrong in return. sorry! they were both wrong! it's a horror and a tragedy!#these are my hot literary takes i know they're unpopular #frankenstein #bri.txt

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