Overly Devoted Archivist Uncategorized frankenstein, I do like that people picked Adam as a name for him though, the creature 0 Comments

flightlessfinch:

imo people calling the creature Adam instead of acknowledging the scene where the creature is born and his first word when he sees his maker’s face is: “Victor?” and then he touches his own chest and says, “Victor?” again and his maker says, “Yes! Of course you are, of course you are!” with real excitement (and their shared first and fleeting taste of love for each other, when neither of them were monsters yet) are missing pieces of the intention of the story and the significance of them sharing a first name as well as a last name.

the constant question of “Frankenstein, or Frankenstein’s monster?” turns into “Victor Frankenstein, or Victor Frankenstein?” (giving the creature back his humanity in a sense but also cursing him with the sins and patterns of his father the way anyone can be cursed with their father’s blood, and at the final moment of his maker’s life he says his maker’s name with love again, and if his name is also Victor by extension he is giving love back to himself through his forgiveness for his maker and erasing what would have been a curse to replace it with self-acceptance and something warmer, like the sunlight) Basically, what I’m saying is, we should call him Junior,