Why is the name "Frankenstein" associated with the monster when that's the name of the creator? Well my first thought was ok thats an easy answer, because the monster is the main character and he doesn't have a name, so when you want to talk about the monster the phrase "the monster from Frankenstein" gets kind of lengthy so over the course of time we start to just say Frankenstein and everyone knows you're talking about the monster and not the creator. But as I thought about this a little deeper it occurred to me that calling the monster by the name of the creator blurs the line between who the real monster is. With out the creator there would be no monster, so who's the real monster here? The monster didn't get asked to be created, it wasn't his choice to exist, but Victor Frankenstein had the choice to create Frankenstein.
As far as what I make of the various incarnations of the monster of Frankenstein, well its no secret that the movies created after Shellys novel bare little resemblance to the original. In Shelly's novel the monster is articulate, eloquent, and persuasive, but now he's been transformed into a creature who limps around and can maybe mumble a few words. I think the reason for this is that it's easier to make a monster who is more "monster like." I think part of the reason was that the creators of the modern image of the Frankenstein monster wanted to make a story that was their own in a way.
As far as what I make of the various incarnations of the monster of Frankenstein, well its no secret that the movies created after Shellys novel bare little resemblance to the original. In Shelly's novel the monster is articulate, eloquent, and persuasive, but now he's been transformed into a creature who limps around and can maybe mumble a few words. I think the reason for this is that it's easier to make a monster who is more "monster like." I think part of the reason was that the creators of the modern image of the Frankenstein monster wanted to make a story that was their own in a way.
That's an interesting point. When people are focus on blaming the monsters themselves that they hurt people, less people have tried to consider the creator whom are actually the one to be blame. If they are not that curious to create other creatures, there won't be any monster. Also, in this specific case, Frankenstein should be blame no matter for his creating monster, but also abandon his creature, which makes the monster became savage and started killing people. Human themselves are the true monsters.
ReplyDeleteI think that if you just think about the legacy of how the Frankenstein Monster became shortened to just Frankenstein, follows exactly the path that Emily stated. That it is a mouthful and eventually people always come up with a way to shorten words that are used frequently. And overtime the abbreviated or shortened version of the name will be more widely accepted than the true name. Examples such as professional athletes like Robert Griffin the Third is a length sayiing but RG3 is much more simple, and now everyone calls him by that.
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