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Frankenstein

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Frankenstein	comment	Since the copyright to this work has expired, it is in the Public Domain. As such, all spoilers are unmarked, as per wiki policy. You Have Been Warned.Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, usually abbreviated to Frankenstein is a novel by Mary Shelley. It was originally published in 1818. It had a 1823 reprint without Shelley's involvement and a third edition in 1831, this time with significant edits from the author. Frankenstein is considered a Trope Maker of Science Fiction (if True History isn't counted) and inarguably has vast historical significance.The novel opens with an English sea captain, Robert Walton, seeing a strange and inhuman figure running alongside his ice-locked ship in the Arctic Circle. The next day, his crew find a sickly and exhausted man alone on the ice and bring him aboard. As the stranger revives, Walton decides to befriend him and ask what brought him to such a sorry state. The stranger asks instead what brought Walton all the way to the Arctic. When Walton eagerly explains that he's driven by a thirst for boundary-defying knowledge and discovery, the horrified stranger retorts that he will tell his own story- one which will make Walton reconsider how far he is willing to go For Science!...Thus begins the stranger's tragic tale: he is a onetime University of Ingolstadt medical student, Victor Frankenstein, who unlocked the secrets to Creating Life. He used this knowledge to create an artificial man, larger and stronger than most mortals, by means which he chooses not to describe. While he was initially triumphant with his success, a few moments of observing the flailing and moaning patchwork being left Victor disgusted by and fearful of his creation. Realizing the ramifications of his success, he was horrified. He abandoned the Creature, and after suffering from several months beset by Brain Fever, left Bavaria and returned to his family's home in Geneva, Switzerland.In his absence, the Creature was forced to come to grips with suddenly finding itself alive and alone without explanation or guidance. During his time learning to survive, he was able to shelter near a local family's house. There, he learned what it meant to be human, but was again driven off when he attempted to offer his friendship- one of many bad run-ins with humanity which left the monster bitter and cynical. Eventually, the Creature came to resent Victor, whom he viewed as his father, for abandoning the Creature to a life of torment, and, using a set of notes Victor had written and left in the pocket of a coat he found in the lab, returns home to seek vengeance against the one who made him...The subtitle, The Modern Prometheus, compares Victor Frankenstein to the Greek titan Prometheus, who brought the secret of fire from Mount Olympus to mortal men, reflecting on Frankenstein's spiritual would-be theft of the secret to creating life — but like Prometheus, Frankenstein also came to regret his transgression. Many would say that Frankenstein was the ultimate warning of Science Is Bad, though similar stories were common throughout the industrial revolution and it is not even clear whether the act of creating the Monster was bad in itself, if the world wasn't ready for it, or Frankenstein was just a horrible and abusive parent.The Vampyre by John William Polidori happened to be written around the same time, while both authors (along with her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley) stayed at a villa near Lake Geneva during the summer of 1816.Frankenstein has had countless adaptations and unofficial sequels, beginning with a stageplay. Fred Saberhagen wrote The Frankenstein Papers, which posited what happened after the Creature left the ship. Manga creator Junji Ito created one of the more faithful adaptations of the story in recent years. For a complete list of the films, see Frankenstein.While the copyright status on the various adaptations varies (the Universal version, for instance, is still under copyright), the original novel is in the Public Domain and can be freely read in both its 1818 and 1831 editions here.
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Frankenstein / int_13f7da6	type	Instant Expert
Frankenstein / int_13f7da6	comment	Instant Expert: The Creature learns to speak and read French in less than a year of watching a family teach a foreigner. After just a few months he's already good enough to read Paradise Lost! (May be justified by Victor having him made from the get-go with "adult hardware," so to speak, which would've made it easier to learn things quickly.) Further evidenced by the Creature tracking the undeniably brilliant, well-connected, and well-funded Victor to the ends of the Earth while avoiding notice or winning over those frightened by his appearance.
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Frankenstein / int_16d14f03	type	Gratuitous Laboratory Flasks
Frankenstein / int_16d14f03	comment	Gratuitous Laboratory Flasks: Just about any given cover will have this in full effect. The Bernie Wrightson edition of Frankenstein goes one step further; all depictions of Victor Frankenstein's work area throughout the book are so chock full of glassware that they can serve no practical purpose to Frankenstein whatsoever, and, indeed, seem to play no role in his work.note Experiments called titrations do use these kinds of set-ups, and would be appropriate given Victor's proclivity for chemistry, but they still serve no purpose to the creation of the monster.
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Frankenstein / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Frankenstein / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Victor portrays his family as the perfect happy family at first, but if you pay attention he contradicts himself in a few places and the Frankenstein family doesn't look so happy after all.
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Frankenstein / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Frankenstein / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: Essentially the theme of the novel. You may succeed at your goal of furthering human knowledge and understanding, but if you fail to meet the responsibility and the prudence that it demands from you, it will inevitably bring ruin upon humanity- yourself included- instead of advancement.
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Frankenstein / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Frankenstein / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: If Victor had told a few key people about the monster, a lot of trouble probably could have been avoided. Victor justifies this secrecy to himself and Walton by saying that people would have thought him mad and not believed him.
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Frankenstein / int_1c8e096e	type	Childhood Friend Romance
Frankenstein / int_1c8e096e	comment	Childhood Friend Romance: Victor and Elizabeth were raised together because of her father's tragic fate and his mother decided to invoke this trope. More so since they were step-siblings. Or cousins depending on the edition. Tragically, their marriage was short-lived.
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Frankenstein / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
Frankenstein / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: Taken to the extreme when you take into consideration that you're reading Walton's letter to his sister recounting Victor's story recounting his Creature's monologue. This particular form (through Walton's letters) is called an epistolary frame. Even more absurd, the story is supposedly a single letter of more than two hundred pages.
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Frankenstein / int_1e95dd12	type	Adam and Eve Plot
Frankenstein / int_1e95dd12	comment	The plot also cheerfully skewers the Adam and Eve Plot. The Creature asks Victor to build him a bride he can go off with, but Victor refuses that because being the same kind of abomination of science doesn't mean his creations will be socially, romantically and sexually compatible. Privately, Victor worries that his creations will be be too socially, romantically and sexually compatible, and manage to populate the world with intelligent, strong, human-hating monsters.
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Frankenstein / int_1ee0948e	type	Artificial Human
Frankenstein / int_1ee0948e	comment	Artificial Human: While it is stressed at certain points that the monster is an entirely unique species, he certainly has a human intelligence and personality.
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Frankenstein / int_1fd2efc9	type	Byronic Hero
Frankenstein / int_1fd2efc9	comment	Byronic Hero: Both Victor Frankenstein and the Creature. Given that Lord Byron himself was present at the novel's inception, both this novel and its "brother," John Polidori's The Vampyre, which was a massive Take That! at Byron after his behaviour on the trip, could be considered the Trope Makers outside Byron's own work.
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Frankenstein / int_20613a2a	type	Victorian Novel Disease
Frankenstein / int_20613a2a	comment	Victorian Novel Disease: A pre-Victorian example of the 'exertion' type, through Victor's nervous illness that he comes down with after the horrifying night where he creates the monster.
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Frankenstein / int_20ffc19a	type	Famous for Being First
Frankenstein / int_20ffc19a	comment	Famous for Being First: Frankenstein sought to be the first person to create artificial life. While he succeeded, he came to regret it when his creation started moving.
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Frankenstein / int_234bd900	type	For Science!
Frankenstein / int_234bd900	comment	For Science!: Victor's initial motivation for the Monster's creation, though mixed with personal motives due to the recent death of his mother.
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Frankenstein / int_23781532	type	Ironic Name
Frankenstein / int_23781532	comment	Ironic Name: Victor. He declared himself victorious over death itself. He was.
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Frankenstein / int_2554f670	type	Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter
Frankenstein / int_2554f670	comment	Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter: Homeward bound from Ingolstadt, depressed Victor walks outside into a thunderstorm one night, and screams at the sky.
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Frankenstein / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Frankenstein / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: The Monster starts a killing spree against his creator, Victor Frankenstein, by brutally killing the man's young brother William.
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Frankenstein / int_2847a9f9	type	Mother Nature, Father Science
Frankenstein / int_2847a9f9	comment	Mother Nature, Father Science: Elizabeth expresses more of an interest in the arts and philosophy, while her cousin Victor pours all his energy into the study of alchemy and the physical sciences.
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Frankenstein / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
Frankenstein / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: Despite the monster's Nothing Left to Do but Die speech at the end and throwing itself out of the ship's cabin window, Walton's account ends right there. We know that Victor has died because his body is there. But we don't know about the monster for sure since we're not told anything after the action above. We just have the creature's word that he will journey to the North Pole before building a funeral pile and using it to immolate himself.
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Frankenstein / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Frankenstein / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: A symbolic example, as Frankenstein disowns his creation. Also, Justine and Elizabeth.
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Frankenstein / int_2a015a74	type	Beauty Equals Goodness
Frankenstein / int_2a015a74	comment	Beauty Equals Goodness: Played straight with Elizabeth, Justine and Henry. Used for tragedy: The monster is molded from unliving flesh, yet is the most warm, kind-hearted character in the book... at first. The people he meets are unable to see past his exterior and, with the obvious exception of the blind man, assume his heart is as ugly as his face. Over time, this mistreatment twists him into the very thing people assume he is.
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Frankenstein / int_2b45c6e	type	Adam and/or Eve
Frankenstein / int_2b45c6e	comment	Adam and/or Eve: The monster tells his maker "I ought to be thy Adam." Word of God says that his name is Adam.
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Frankenstein / int_30bda262	type	Moustache de Plume
Frankenstein / int_30bda262	comment	Moustache de Plume: Mary Shelley first published the book anonymously, which left readers to assume she was male. And with good reason: upon her reveal, literary critics of the time actually downgraded the book based on her gender.
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Frankenstein / int_33a2f32f	type	Do Androids Dream?
Frankenstein / int_33a2f32f	comment	Do Androids Dream?: The creature is constructed from undescribed processes and given life by the scientist Victor Frankenstein. He is described as having a monstrous appearance but is presented as an extremely intelligent, gentle and sympathetic character until driven to insane rage by his rejection from humanity because of his appearance. On the other hand, Frankenstein himself is portrayed as morally questionable but his basic humanity is never questioned by those around him because of his normal appearance.
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Frankenstein / int_351e7cf9	type	Romanticism Versus Enlightenment
Frankenstein / int_351e7cf9	comment	Romanticism Versus Enlightenment: If one is able to create life artificially, should they? When you create something, how much control do you maintain over it? (The latter is a timeless theme. Think about scientists that establish concepts either benevolently or neutrally that are horrified to find out that they have been adapted as a weapon, etc.)
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Frankenstein / int_352a1d70	type	All First-Person Narrators Write Like Novelists
Frankenstein / int_352a1d70	comment	All First-Person Narrators Write Like Novelists: Subverted as the entirety of the novel was epistolary in the form of letters sent by Captain Robert Walton to his sister. Walton allegedly wrote down the account as given to him by Victor who was virtually on his deathbed. It includes long speeches and descriptions given by the characters as well as the content of letters that Victor relates. He is either very verbose and has a good memory for a man dying of pneumonia brought on by hypothermia, or Walton, given his Ho Yay tendencies concerning Victor, really went overboard with embellishing Victor's spoken account of events. The whole chapters written from the monster's point of view are actually him filling in Victor on his activities since his creation, including his prolonged interaction with Felix and the blind man. All told in extraordinary detail. But it is still actually supposed to be Victor just relating to Walton what the monster told him.
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Frankenstein / int_382a6399	type	The Hero Dies
Frankenstein / int_382a6399	comment	The Hero Dies: Victor dies of illness on Walton's ship. Calling him a "hero" is a bit of a stretch, though.
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Frankenstein / int_3929e0db	type	You Need to Get Laid
Frankenstein / int_3929e0db	comment	You Need to Get Laid: The Creature requests that Victor make him a female companion, and in exchange he and his Bride will go off somewhere and never bother anyone again.
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Frankenstein / int_3d455888	type	Then Let Me Be Evil
Frankenstein / int_3d455888	comment	Then Let Me Be Evil: The Creature, after he's had enough abuse and mistreatment.
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Frankenstein / int_3e992c7b	type	Adopt-a-Servant
Frankenstein / int_3e992c7b	comment	Adopt-a-Servant: Justine was adopted as a servant for the Frankenstein family when Victor was still a child.
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Frankenstein / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Frankenstein / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: After learning that William is related to Frankenstein, the Creature has no problem in smothering him to death.
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Frankenstein / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Frankenstein / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: It is from the Romantic period, after all. Particular highlights include Victor's walk into the Alps at the end of Volume 1, scenes on Walton's ship in the Arctic, and the cottage owned by the de Lacey family that the Monster shelters near.
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Frankenstein / int_49daf5af	type	Maker of Monsters
Frankenstein / int_49daf5af	comment	Maker of Monsters: Frankenstein is an unbuilt example of this. In the novel, he does not try to create a monster — he attempted to simply restore a dead body to life, and created a man who was "wrong" in an unspecified way. That his creation went on to murder several people, including himself, is treated as a tragic outcome. However, later adaptations of the story often portray him as much more actively desiring to create an openly monstrous entity.
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Frankenstein / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
Frankenstein / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: Not really. The Monster picks up this ideal towards the end, but realizes how wrong he is. Also subverted when he was observing the family towards the beginning — especially when the blind grandfather started to warm up to him. The blind man's family only attack the Creature when they return at an unfortunate moment and mistakenly believe the Creature to be attacking him.
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Frankenstein / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Frankenstein / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Victor Frankenstein dies on Walton's ship without ever taking revenge on the monster for his murders of William, Henry and Elizabeth (as well as Justine being wrongfully executed as a result of the monster framing her). The monster visits Walton, expresses regret for his murders, and leaves to commit suicide.
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Frankenstein / int_4e887103	type	The Aloner
Frankenstein / int_4e887103	comment	The Aloner: The Monster, because everyone's so damn terrified of him.
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Frankenstein / int_5020cc4a	type	Blank Slate
Frankenstein / int_5020cc4a	comment	Blank Slate: The Creature is essentially "born" without any idea of what the outside world is like, especially since Victor ran out on him, because of his apparently hideous appearance... in fact, it's because of the disgusted reactions of others towards how he looks (the very negative reaction) that he starts to turn toward doing evil; no one will ever try to get to know the real him...
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Frankenstein / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Frankenstein / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: The Creature's appearance is apparently so horrifying that one look makes everyone who sees him â€“ including his own creator â€“ want to destroy him. Oddly enough, at least in one version of the novel, Victor describes the monster's body pre-animation as beautiful, save for its horribly unsettling eyes, so it may not be ugly so much as Uncanny Valley (which is implied when Frankenstein describes when the monster starts moving).
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Frankenstein / int_51c70be6	type	Obliviously Evil
Frankenstein / int_51c70be6	comment	Obliviously Evil: The Creature, before he spoke.
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Frankenstein / int_545d100b	type	Intelligence Equals Isolation
Frankenstein / int_545d100b	comment	Intelligence Equals Isolation: Victor intentionally isolated himself in order to pursue his intellectual interests.
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Frankenstein / int_55172a70	type	Zombie Gait
Frankenstein / int_55172a70	comment	The physical abilities are also subject to this: the typical view of the Creature is that he is slow and inarticulate, with only physical strength that it possesses little control over. In contrast, the Creature in the book is strong, agile, and quite dexterous; as noted above, he also knows how to use firearms by the end.
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Frankenstein / int_565106b3	type	Women Are Wiser
Frankenstein / int_565106b3	comment	Women Are Wiser: The women of the novel are all beautiful, religious, intelligent, gentle, and far happier than any of the men. Interestingly, when Victor starts creating a female monster for the Creature, it occurs to him that the female monster will be just as intelligent as the male, and has neither made any promises to abstain from violence, nor consented to be the Creature's bride. He even ponders the idea that she will rebel against the two of them trying to control her, creating a second angry crime against nature. The She-Creature is never even completed, but Frankenstein imagines her more complexly than any other female character.
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Frankenstein / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
Frankenstein / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: The poor family that the Creature observes appear to have gone through a rather exciting Scarlet Pimpernel-esque adventure in post-revolutionary France involving wrongful imprisonment, betrayal, prison escapes, and true love.
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Frankenstein / int_5bc1ce14	type	Author Vocabulary Calendar
Frankenstein / int_5bc1ce14	comment	Author Vocabulary Calendar: Shelley likes to use the words "benevolent," "wretch" and "countenance."
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Frankenstein / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
Frankenstein / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: The conflict between creator and creation, parent and child. The terrible consequences of Playing God, and the true meaning of responsibility. Romanticism Versus Enlightenment: If one is able to create life artificially, should they? When you create something, how much control do you maintain over it? (The latter is a timeless theme. Think about scientists that establish concepts either benevolently or neutrally that are horrified to find out that they have been adapted as a weapon, etc.)
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Frankenstein / int_64435b8	type	Informed Kindness
Frankenstein / int_64435b8	comment	Informed Kindness: Throughout the story, we're told how noble and wonderful Victor Frankenstein is, but we never see any of it; his actions in the story make him out to be shallow, irresponsible and self-centered. Of course, a lot of the narration is from the perspective of Victor, close friends of his, and those who otherwise did not know him for very long, so these accounts may just serve as testaments to Victor's arrogance, the inherent bias of those amiable to him, and the ignorance of those who didn't know him long enough to see Victor for who he really was; tellingly, the one who knows Victor Frankenstein most intimately- the Creature- understandably and rightfully despises him.
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Frankenstein / int_653c5c73	type	Cannot Spit It Out
Frankenstein / int_653c5c73	comment	Cannot Spit It Out: Victor keeps the monster a secret, justifying this by saying that people wouldn't believe him anyway or call him mad. He still refuses to divulge the truth when Justine is tried for the monster's actions and eventually executed.
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Frankenstein / int_6977c45e	type	Purple Prose
Frankenstein / int_6977c45e	comment	Purple Prose: Suffers from this in parts to the point it's more like ultraviolet prose. So much so that the highlighter across the room is glowing like a portable sun. This is probably due to Percy Shelley's revisions, which changed Mary's prose to be as unnecessarily complicated and melodramatic as possible. For instance, he changed "I do not wish to hate you" to "I will not be tempted to set myself in opposition to thee."
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Frankenstein / int_6b5a92dc	type	Uncanny Valley
Frankenstein / int_6b5a92dc	comment	Uncanny Valley: An in-universe example: Frankenstein explains that he had to make the creature 8 feet tall to successfully construct the tiniest parts of him. The result is a monster that everyone is scared of at first glance, including the creature itself. The monster was constructed to be Tall, Dark, and Handsome, and despite the beauty, upon the Monster's rejuvenation, Victor was repulsed because of this trope.
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Frankenstein / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
Frankenstein / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: The name 'Victor' is actually a sneaky reference to Paradise Lost (a big influence on the story), as Milton often refers to God as 'the Victor.' Then the Monster equates himself with Adam...
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Frankenstein / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
Frankenstein / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: Victor against his creation. Victor himself is a Mad Scientist who abandoned his creation and shows no sympathy for any the abuse he has been subjected to, as well as constantly dehumanising him, but also the creature is said to be so hideous he can cause seizures merely by looking at him, which does well explain (albeit not necessarily justify) the initial reaction, and he was genuinely trying to pursue his discovery in the name of science. The creature, however, kills Victor's family merely to spite Victor, and is driven to become generally aggressive towards humanity; however, he was indeed driven towards this by much abuse due merely to his appearance and the aforementioned Parental Abandonment. Interestingly, Victor also kills the monster's bride in front of it, so they are both guilty of that particular crime, right down to forcing the other to watch. Both have sympathetic moments and are generally tragic figures, but neither is exactly morally upstanding.
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Frankenstein / int_747c12e1	type	Creating Life Is Bad
Frankenstein / int_747c12e1	comment	Creating Life Is Bad: The Creature probably the Trope Codifier of this in modern thought, despite the fact that the loaded term "monster" was applied to it retroactively (he is only referred as the "Creature" in the original novel), and that the book never actually portrays the act of creating life as evil â€” instead, it is the act of Frankenstein abandoning his own creation that drives it to evil actions. Shelley had never argued against creating life, only against humanity refusing to take responsibility for what they create. Nonetheless, genetic engineering controversies are very likely to invoke the Frankenstein's Monster archetype in arguments (an example is how genetically-modified foods are referred to as "frankenfoods"). In-universe, he was not beautiful, though he was meant to be so:
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Frankenstein / int_74ee1c2d	type	Out-of-Genre Experience
Frankenstein / int_74ee1c2d	comment	Out-of-Genre Experience: The Creature learns French by secretly observing a woman being taught the language. We get a lot more detail on her backstory than is necessary.
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Frankenstein / int_7842867	type	Vengeance Feels Empty
Frankenstein / int_7842867	comment	Vengeance Feels Empty: The Creature sets out to destroy the life of his creator Victor Frankenstein after the latter destroys the female Creature he was building for him, fearing that their new race would replace humanity. When he murders Victor's wife, Victor starts to hunt the Creature to the literal ends of the Earth before dying from exposure in the Arctic. The Creature visits his Father after his death, but realizes that he has no more purpose in this world and chooses to commit suicide.
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Frankenstein / int_7a2ebcba	type	Frankenstein's Monster
Frankenstein / int_7a2ebcba	comment	This was one of the first major "monster stories." But going back and reading it now, after growing up exposed to generic Frankenstein's Monster stereotypes where it wanders around aimlessly, groans, and kills people, one may be a bit surprised to find an urbane woobie of a monster who is in many ways more sympathetic than his creator and quotes liberally from literature. He also carries firearms for self-protection. The Monster is specifically described as relatively human. The main things that make him appear inhuman are his height and his eyes, and his arteries visibly pumping beneath his skin, and it's decidedly ambiguous whether Frankenstein's true crime was creating the monster or a form of Parental Abandonment. And although it's up for a lot of interpretation, the monster is probably not Always Chaotic Evil.
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Frankenstein / int_7c36c716	type	Angst Coma
Frankenstein / int_7c36c716	comment	Angst Coma: Thanks to this being a Romantic era horror novel, Brain Fever is in abundance, especially with Victor - any time something bad happens to him, Victor seems to keel over into a months-long coma/sleep. And since it's Frankenstein, bad things happen a LOT.
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Frankenstein / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Frankenstein / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Walton gives one to the Creature, in response to the latter's expressing remorse over Frankenstein's death.
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Frankenstein / int_7ec94d53	type	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
Frankenstein / int_7ec94d53	comment	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Since the creature has known nothing but hate and rejection in all his life, this is his motivation to turn against Victor and kill more innocent people unless Victor makes him a girlfriend like him.
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Frankenstein / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
Frankenstein / int_80251be3	comment	The whole chapters written from the monster's point of view are actually him filling in Victor on his activities since his creation, including his prolonged interaction with Felix and the blind man. All told in extraordinary detail. But it is still actually supposed to be Victor just relating to Walton what the monster told him.
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Frankenstein / int_803e3201	type	Satanic Archetype
Frankenstein / int_803e3201	comment	Satanic Archetype: After reading Paradise Lost, the Monster identifies himself with the Devil. After all, both are wretched creations who come to rebel against their masters.
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Frankenstein / int_82af0940	type	Jacob Marley Warning
Frankenstein / int_82af0940	comment	Jacob Marley Warning: Victor serves as a warning to Walton, who is in danger of becoming as obsessed with his exploration as Victor was with the science that led to the creation of his monster.
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Frankenstein / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Frankenstein / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: invoked At the end, Victor's brother Ernest is left unaccounted for; the entire rest of the Frankenstein family is dead.
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Frankenstein / int_88933ad4	type	Parental Favoritism
Frankenstein / int_88933ad4	comment	Parental Favoritism: It's directly stated by Victor that Elizabeth was his mother's favorite.
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Frankenstein / int_8b6394c	type	These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know
Frankenstein / int_8b6394c	comment	These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know: The dark knowledge that Victor learns to use to create his monster.
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Frankenstein / int_8d522951	type	Self-Imposed Exile
Frankenstein / int_8d522951	comment	Self-Imposed Exile: Frankenstein's monster has serious flaws, and cannot assimilate into human society, a la All of the Other Reindeer, which begins his first exile into the rugged mountains. However, after hearing that his creator planned on getting married, the creature returned to ruin Frankenstein's happiness by slaying his bride-to-be. Now a murderer as well as an abomination, Frankenstein's monster departs for the frozen north, planning to live in solitude to the end of his days.
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Frankenstein / int_8ff8d545	type	Kissing Cousins
Frankenstein / int_8ff8d545	comment	Kissing Cousins: Victor Frankenstein and his fiancÃ©e Elizabeth are cousins who were raised in the same household. In the 1831 edit of the book, Elizabeth was an orphan, originally the daughter of a Milanese merchant. She was fostered by a poor Italian family and adopted by the Frankensteins.
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Frankenstein / int_90d60f4a	type	And Some Other Stuff
Frankenstein / int_90d60f4a	comment	And Some Other Stuff: Frankenstein is deliberately vague about how he brought a home-grown and molded body to life. The sailor he's telling his story to tries to inquire further, but Frankenstein refuses because he doesn't want anyone else to replicate his experiment.
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Frankenstein / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Frankenstein / int_9245d989	comment	Sinister Minister: It's a Catholic priest who forces Justine to confess to a murder she didn't commit, which ends up getting her executed and sends Victor into a fit of grief and remorse. It also prevents any further investigation into the actual murderer, who Victor assumes to be his monster.
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Frankenstein / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
Frankenstein / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Victor, who even on his death bed condemns himself for creating the Creature, but exonerates all of his subsequent actions. Averted with the Creature, who blames Victor and humanity at large for turning him evil, but still expresses remorse for his actions.
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Frankenstein / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
Frankenstein / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: Frankenstein receives a letter from Elizabeth which tells him his own life story in exhausting detail. The letter also explains how servants are a different form of employee in his own country than in England. The phrase "You will recall..." pops up a few times. Likewise there's one that begins along the lines of, "I'm sure you remember our young maid, Justine, but in case you don't..."
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Frankenstein / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
Frankenstein / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: The monster can survive much harsher conditions than a normal human.
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Frankenstein / int_9dc46ce8	type	Otherworldly Communication Failure
Frankenstein / int_9dc46ce8	comment	Otherworldly Communication Failure: One of the most famous literary examples of the trope. The monster of Frankenstein attempts to communicate with several human characters throughout the novel. When he tries to befriend the DeLaceys (the family he watched) and reveal his presence, they don't listen to him and try to attack him because of his ghastly, grotesque appearance.
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Frankenstein / int_9e1e14ea	type	Ambition Is Evil
Frankenstein / int_9e1e14ea	comment	Ambition Is Evil: Frankenstein warns Walton of ambition.
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Frankenstein / int_9e9203e1	type	Dramatically Missing the Point
Frankenstein / int_9e9203e1	comment	Dramatically Missing the Point: After Frankenstein breaks his promise to make the monster a bride, the monster tells him, "I'll be with you on your wedding night." Frankenstein thinks the monster means he'll kill him on his wedding, and after the wedding, waits outside his honeymoon cottage with a loaded shotgun, waiting for the monster to come, with Elizabeth waiting in the room. But the monster meant he would kill Elizabeth on the night of their wedding, and does so when Frankenstein is outside waiting.
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Frankenstein / int_a0d9c2f3	type	Final Speech
Frankenstein / int_a0d9c2f3	comment	Final Speech: Frankenstein at the end, in which he warns Walton not to be too ambitious and seek happiness instead.
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Frankenstein / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Frankenstein / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: The monster in the end, as he realizes that, after killing all those people and his "father," he finally became the monster the world thought him. Victor himself, from Chapter 5 onward.
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Frankenstein / int_a27da813	type	Stern Chase
Frankenstein / int_a27da813	comment	Stern Chase: After all of Victor's family and friends are killed, he ends up in a lengthy pursuit of his creation, eventually reaching the Arctic. This is where Walton finds him.
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Frankenstein / int_a7c91a10	type	Meaningless Villain Victory
Frankenstein / int_a7c91a10	comment	Meaningless Villain Victory: The creature succeeds in completely ruining Victor's life and Victor also dies before he had his chance to take his revenge against him. However, as the story reaches its conclusion, he is not only as lonely and miserable as he always was, but also filled with so much regret that decides to commit suicide at the end of book.
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Frankenstein / int_aaece264	type	Rousing Speech
Frankenstein / int_aaece264	comment	Rousing Speech: Victor Frankenstein gives an epic one to the soldiers on Walton's boat near the end when he wants them to continue northward. This ultimately goes nowhere, as after Victor dies, both Walton and his men know that it would mean almost certain death to continue on their journey.
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Frankenstein / int_abc55125	type	Character Filibuster
Frankenstein / int_abc55125	comment	Character Filibuster: By technicality. The story is supposed to be Frankenstein narrating his story to the captain of the ship that rescued him from the ice. When the POV switches to the Creature, it's in the form of the Creature telling Frankenstein his tale, which Frankenstein repeats back in his own tale. The technical literary term for this is a hypodiegetic narrative, making the Creature's monologue within Frankenstein's monologue within Walton's monologue a hypohypodiegetic narrative.There's one to impress your English teacher!
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Frankenstein / int_ad22fa80	type	Apocalyptic Log
Frankenstein / int_ad22fa80	comment	Apocalyptic Log: The novel may or may not be one of these, depending on whether or not you think the sea captain who narrates the Framing Story will rescue his ship from the Arctic ice.
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Frankenstein / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
Frankenstein / int_adfd3165	comment	For the Evulz: While making the Creature's mate, Frankenstein worries that she might start killing people with this justification.
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Frankenstein / int_af98df4e	type	They Called Me Mad!
Frankenstein / int_af98df4e	comment	They Called Me Mad!: What Frankenstein fears they'll do if he tells people about the monster. They do call Frankenstein mad later, but to their credit, he had been delusional with Brain Fever for a time.
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Frankenstein / int_b38ebb09	type	Miles to Go Before I Sleep
Frankenstein / int_b38ebb09	comment	Miles to Go Before I Sleep: By the end of his narrative, Victor is miserable enough to become a Death Seeker, but he promised himself and his dead family that he'd kill the monster first. Unfortunately for him the monster just happens to be really, really good at not being killed.
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Frankenstein / int_b4dcdf5b	type	Antagonist in Mourning
Frankenstein / int_b4dcdf5b	comment	Antagonist in Mourning: When the creature realizes that Victor has died, he calls Victor the "select specimen of all that is worthy of love and admiration," despite having pursued the man to his end.
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Frankenstein / int_b593baf1	type	Author Filibuster
Frankenstein / int_b593baf1	comment	Author Filibuster: During the scene in which Elizabeth and Victor are visiting the condemned Justine Moritz, Mary Shelley allows Elizabeth to go into a completely inappropriate rant against the inhumanity of the death penalty (Shelley and her husband Percy were strongly against it) - inappropriate for that dramatic moment, anyway, because Elizabeth is meant to be there comforting and consoling her friend who's just been condemned under the death penalty. This led one editor of the 1818 edition to remark that Elizabeth isn't the sort of friend you'd call on to cheer you up if you've had a bad day... the book has no fewer than three separate narrators (even more if you count the letters from family members that Victor quotes verbatim), and all of them to some degree deliver little sermons on topics that are only tangentially related to the novel's theme. Oddest of all, the story proper is recounted in the form of a series of letters written by (fictional) Arctic explorer Robert Walton, whose ship is trapped in ice as the novel begins (which, for modern-day readers, must amount to the greatest Fake-Out Opening in history). Mary, in fact, began writing her story with the creation of the monster itself but was encouraged by her husband to expand it to full length, belatedly adding Walton and all the rest.
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Frankenstein / int_b7042372	type	Cycle of Revenge
Frankenstein / int_b7042372	comment	Cycle of Revenge: The Creature seeks revenge on Victor for abandoning him, causing Victor to hate him in return. Basically, one act of hate leads to the other retaliating in kind until Victor dies a miserable man and the Monster is so horrified by what he had become that he commits suicide.
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Frankenstein / int_b77eb3b2	type	Revenge by Proxy
Frankenstein / int_b77eb3b2	comment	Revenge by Proxy: The Creature decides to get revenge on Frankenstein for its own wretched existence by making him suffer, so he kills Frankenstein's youngest brother (and frames a close friend of his for the murder), followed by his greatest friend, and then on Frankenstein's wedding day, the monster strangles his bride.
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Frankenstein / int_bb0b2739	type	Nested Story
Frankenstein / int_bb0b2739	comment	Nested Story: The family on whom the monster is spying is telling a story, within the monster's story to Frankenstein, who is in turn recounting the story to the captain of a ship bound for the North Pole, who is in turn relates it in a letter.
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Frankenstein / int_bb44f503	type	Robot War
Frankenstein / int_bb44f503	comment	Robot War: Yes, really. When contemplating making his Creature a bride, Victor ponders whether, should they reproduce, "a race of devils would be propagated upon Earth who might make the very existence of the species of man a condition precarious and full of terror." This little vision just might be the Ur-Example in fiction, particularly if we employ the term "robot" in its original sense.
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Frankenstein / int_bbf11c0	type	Genius Bruiser
Frankenstein / int_bbf11c0	comment	Genius Bruiser: Thanks to the several months he spent observing the De Lacey family, the Monster gains an intricate knowledge of the human condition and human culture, and becomes quite educated simply by osmosis. This happens to bite Victor in the worst possible way when he misinterprets one of the Monster's remarks when they meet in the Mountains "I will be with you on your wedding night."
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Frankenstein / int_beaac07c	type	Brown Note Being
Frankenstein / int_beaac07c	comment	Brown Note Being: Once again, The Creature, whose appearance can cause seizures merely by looking at him.
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Frankenstein / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Frankenstein / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: While on the surface he may appear to be a decent man, Frankenstein is driven by ambition rather than morality. Indulging in the literature of ancient magicians, he contrives to build and bring to life a human being, ignoring the consequences such a task, if executed successfully, may unleash upon the world. And when that task is executed successfully, he runs from his creation in fear, leaving it to fend for itself. He then goes on to whine about all his misfortunes without even considering the misfortunes of others.
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Frankenstein / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Frankenstein / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Victor notes that, with his wife, baby brother and best friend murdered and his father dead from grief, he has lost every important person left in his life. ...Except wait, didn't he have another brother named Ernest? Did the monster get him too, or was he the Sole Survivor?
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Frankenstein / int_c39846a3	type	Pride
Frankenstein / int_c39846a3	comment	Pride: A central theme.
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Frankenstein / int_c41114f6	type	Year X
Frankenstein / int_c41114f6	comment	Year X: The dates in the letters are written as 17—.
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Frankenstein / int_c5a0b4d3	type	Brain Fever
Frankenstein / int_c5a0b4d3	comment	Brain Fever: Frankenstein has at least three bouts that last months, one of which was brought on by seeing his own monster. And the others from seeing its victims.
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Frankenstein / int_ca04edd6	type	Charles Atlas Superpower
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Frankenstein / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Frankenstein / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: Downplayed. The story provides plenty of details of the creature, but never a full, clear description of him. The closest the story has is when the narrator sees his hand at the end which is the same color as a mummy. Whatever the creature looks like, it's so bad everyone who sees him except his creator wants to kill him.
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Frankenstein / int_cf57aca1	type	Orwellian Retcon
Frankenstein / int_cf57aca1	comment	Orwellian Retcon: Mary Shelley revised the novel heavily between its original release and its first rerelease, making it less ambiguous whether the Creature was evil by the end or not.
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Frankenstein / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
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Frankenstein / int_d038afba	type	Creating Life
Frankenstein / int_d038afba	comment	Creating Life: It is left ambiguous whether creating the creature was actually a bad thing or not. The creature suffers (and subsequently causes suffering to his creator), not because it was created but because the creator abandoned it afterwards. The story can be read in in many ways, unlike most of the (usually extremely heavy-handed) genre it spawned. Is Frankenstein a bad scientist (who did a bad experiment), a bad father (who abandoned the son he had created), or a bad God (a flawed mortal who ran in fear from his own creation)? Well, that's something you'll just have to decide for yourself. Most re-tellings of the story will make the choice for you, however, by simply declaring that Science Is Bad, period, and putting Always Chaotic Evil stamps all over the place.
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Frankenstein / int_d0f0a80d	type	One-Word Title
Frankenstein / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title: The first half of the Either/Or Title, is a Protagonist Title of sorts, "Frankenstein."
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Frankenstein / int_d29e9f65	type	Nature Versus Nurture
Frankenstein / int_d29e9f65	comment	Nature Versus Nurture: Frankenstein believes the monster is naturally evil, but the monster believes that he became evil due to Frankenstein's immediate abandonment of him (and he's shown to be right).
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Frankenstein / int_d2fb51b5	type	Blind and the Beast
Frankenstein / int_d2fb51b5	comment	Blind and the Beast: The Creature tries to befriend a blind man, and it works! Except the man's family returns and casts out the Creature before he can explain himself.
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Frankenstein / int_d355ba37	type	Turned Against Their Masters
Frankenstein / int_d355ba37	comment	Turned Against Their Masters: Despite viewing Victor as his "father," the Creature quickly resents him for his abandonment of him and takes revenge by murdering the people close to him.
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Frankenstein / int_d84a3beb	type	Either/Or Title
Frankenstein / int_d84a3beb	comment	Either/Or Title: The full title is Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
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Frankenstein / int_da38c13f	type	Lamarck Was Right
Frankenstein / int_da38c13f	comment	Lamarck Was Right: Frankenstein destroys the half-formed she-Creature that he was building for the monster because he feared that the two would breed a race of terrifying creatures like themselves and take over the world.
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Frankenstein / int_db015585	type	False Confession
Frankenstein / int_db015585	comment	False Confession: Justine falsely confesses to killing William, convinced that if she doesn't, she'll go to Hell after she's executed.
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Frankenstein / int_db6230b7	type	Lightning Bruiser
Frankenstein / int_db6230b7	comment	Lightning Bruiser: Unlike his movie counterpart, the Creature in the book is both superhumanly strong and agile.
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Frankenstein / int_db94aee5	type	Artificial Zombie
Frankenstein / int_db94aee5	comment	Artificial Zombie: The Creature was pieced together from dead tissue by some (poorly-defined) means and given life.
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Frankenstein / int_dbb414ed	type	Hand Wave
Frankenstein / int_dbb414ed	comment	Hand Wave: Frankenstein never reveals just how he gave life to the Creature, which was lampshaded in Young Frankenstein when Frederick finds Victor's book "How I Did It."
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Frankenstein / int_dc1761bd	type	A God Am I
Frankenstein / int_dc1761bd	comment	A God Am I: Victor Frankenstein becomes obsessed with discovering the secret of life and eventually succeeds in creating a new lifeform out of human remains. Unfortunately, the creature is hideous and he abandons his creation out of disgust, forcing it to fend for itself. And thus began an endless cycle of revenge and hatred that would last until the day they died...
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Frankenstein / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Frankenstein / int_dc8ba6d5	comment	The Scapegoat: Justine is framed for the Creature's murder of William and is subsequently executed for it.
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Frankenstein / int_dd11249d	type	Artificial Family Member
Frankenstein / int_dd11249d	comment	Artificial Family Member: Inverted. Immediately after giving the Monster life, Victor has a What Have I Done moment and essentially abandons it. It's the Monster who comes to see Victor as his "father," and is understandably upset about the way he's been treated. His response is to do everything he can to destroy Victor's life, though at the end he still winds up mourning his "father's" death.
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Frankenstein / int_ddeaea82	type	Miscarriage of Justice
Frankenstein / int_ddeaea82	comment	Miscarriage of Justice: Justine was framed for the murder of Victor's young brother, and she's executed. Victor Frankenstein knew the trial was unjust but refused to act.
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Frankenstein / int_de62575	type	Mix-and-Match Man
Frankenstein / int_de62575	comment	Mix-and-Match Man: The Creature is heavily implied to be one of these. Victor talks about his "parts" and "materials", which he obtained from medical dissecting rooms and slaughterhouses, and how he chose various "features" that he combined into what he thought would be the perfect person. He's deliberately vague on exactly how he combined all these traits, as he doesn't want anyone else to repeat his mistakes.
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Frankenstein / int_df24d8fa	type	Platonic Cave
Frankenstein / int_df24d8fa	comment	Platonic Cave: During the Creature's narrative.
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Frankenstein / int_e0dbaf11	type	Death by Flashback
Frankenstein / int_e0dbaf11	comment	Death by Flashback: Almost the entirety of the novel is a flashback narrated by Victor Frankenstein to the explorer Walton. He dies not long after finishing his tale. There's also a possible aversion here, as the Monster narrates a flashback within a flashback, and his fate is left ambiguous at the end. He says he's going to kill himself, but we don't see it happen.
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Frankenstein / int_e16cd24e	type	Know When to Fold 'Em
Frankenstein / int_e16cd24e	comment	Know When to Fold 'Em: Victor claims to Captain Walton that the moral of his story is to know when to leave well enough alone, and to stop yourself from falling headfirst into foolhardy obsession well before the point of disaster. If so, then it turns out he clearly hasn't learned it himself, as he ends up delivering a fanatical speech to Walton's crew, who are beginning to get mutinous over the potential disasters facing their voyage, urging them ever forward come what may. Fortunately for all concerned, Walton proves a lot more willing to learn the lesson and agrees to turn back, deciding that his dreams of glory aren't worth throwing away the lives of his men.
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Frankenstein / int_e19e68	type	Cruel Mercy
Frankenstein / int_e19e68	comment	Cruel Mercy: Implied. After Frankenstein's death, the monster himself explains how letting the monster live would have been more satisfying revenge than killing it outright, since forcing it to live alone and in the guilt of its crimes would be torturous.
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Frankenstein / int_e34dc01f	type	Pulling Your Child Away
Frankenstein / int_e34dc01f	comment	Pulling Your Child Away: This happens to Frankenstein's creation, when he leaves the laboratory and goes walking in the human world: a child who has realised there is no danger is dragged away by their terrified parents.
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Frankenstein / int_e35bc0f7	type	Tragic Monster
Frankenstein / int_e35bc0f7	comment	Tragic Monster: It doesn't get more tragic than the Creature. Created and immediately abandoned by its creator for being ugly, before it even really wakes up. Made innocent, his nature is soon twisted by circumstance into something horrible and evil, alone, wretched and violent. The worst part, however, is that he knows exactly how wicked he has become but knows he cannot change. After he has succeeded in destroying his creator during a hunt in the frozen wastes of the Arctic, he mourns the Frankenstein's death. The Creature decides to end his own existence by building a funeral pyre for himself and climbing on top of it.
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Frankenstein / int_e5042cc2	type	Beta Test Baddie
Frankenstein / int_e5042cc2	comment	Beta Test Baddie: His murderous rage is fueled by being alone and universally hated on sight. He was fairly content until he discovered that everyone he met was horrified at the sight of him. He wanted company, and his creator refused to provide any. He's written as an intelligent and compassionate person at first, but becomes a nameless victim of What Measure Is a Non-Human?.
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Frankenstein / int_e5120d	type	The Igor
Frankenstein / int_e5120d	comment	Also, there's no Igor or peasants waving Torches and Pitchforks while running up to the castleâ€”or for that matter (with occasional exceptions) any public knowledge of the thing at any point. And there is no proper castle; the monster is created in an upper-floor laboratory of a university. The Frankenstein family has an estate, but it's never stated as to how extravagant or not it is in size.note Although it is highly likely the estate is based on the Villa Diodati, which the Shelleys and Lord Byron visited during the summer of 1815, the same location where Mary was inspired to write what would eventually become the book.
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Frankenstein / int_e52a0409	type	Calling the Old Man Out
Frankenstein / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: The point of the monster's meeting with Victor is to do this.
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Frankenstein / int_e663d3ef	type	Only a Flesh Wound
Frankenstein / int_e663d3ef	comment	Only a Flesh Wound: Averted; when the Creature gets shot in the shoulder, he faints, and it took weeks for him to recover. And he's much stronger and tougher than the average human.
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Frankenstein / int_e68d9ddd	type	Not Blood Siblings
Frankenstein / int_e68d9ddd	comment	Not Blood Siblings: Victor and Elizabeth. They were raised as siblings, but, at least, depending on the edition, are cousins.
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Frankenstein / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Frankenstein / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: The Creature; upon hearing Victor say, "Just go! I cannot bear to look at you any longer!" he covers Victor's eyes with his hand and says, "Now you don't have to look at me." Part of the reason Frankenstein doesn't want to finish the female creature is because while the first creature promised to leave humans alone, the one he was making hadn't.
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Frankenstein / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Frankenstein / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: The Creature gets shot in the shoulder for saving a little girl from drowning and is attacked by a family he had been secretly helping with chores.
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Frankenstein / int_f019a913	type	PlayingGod
Frankenstein / int_f019a913	comment	The terrible consequences of Playing God, and the true meaning of responsibility.
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Frankenstein / int_f0e85546	type	Unbuilt Trope
Frankenstein / int_f0e85546	comment	Unbuilt Trope: This was one of the first major "monster stories." But going back and reading it now, after growing up exposed to generic Frankenstein's Monster stereotypes where it wanders around aimlessly, groans, and kills people, one may be a bit surprised to find an urbane woobie of a monster who is in many ways more sympathetic than his creator and quotes liberally from literature. He also carries firearms for self-protection. The Monster is specifically described as relatively human. The main things that make him appear inhuman are his height and his eyes, and his arteries visibly pumping beneath his skin, and it's decidedly ambiguous whether Frankenstein's true crime was creating the monster or a form of Parental Abandonment. And although it's up for a lot of interpretation, the monster is probably not Always Chaotic Evil. Also, there's no Igor or peasants waving Torches and Pitchforks while running up to the castleâ€”or for that matter (with occasional exceptions) any public knowledge of the thing at any point. And there is no proper castle; the monster is created in an upper-floor laboratory of a university. The Frankenstein family has an estate, but it's never stated as to how extravagant or not it is in size.note Although it is highly likely the estate is based on the Villa Diodati, which the Shelleys and Lord Byron visited during the summer of 1815, the same location where Mary was inspired to write what would eventually become the book. The physical abilities are also subject to this: the typical view of the Creature is that he is slow and inarticulate, with only physical strength that it possesses little control over. In contrast, the Creature in the book is strong, agile, and quite dexterous; as noted above, he also knows how to use firearms by the end. The plot also cheerfully skewers the Adam and Eve Plot. The Creature asks Victor to build him a bride he can go off with, but Victor refuses that because being the same kind of abomination of science doesn't mean his creations will be socially, romantically and sexually compatible. Privately, Victor worries that his creations will be be too socially, romantically and sexually compatible, and manage to populate the world with intelligent, strong, human-hating monsters.
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Frankenstein / int_f1d3f0c9	type	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
Frankenstein / int_f1d3f0c9	comment	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: A modern reader should keep a dictionary within arm's reach while reading the original text.
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Frankenstein / int_f283319c	type	Tortured Monster
Frankenstein / int_f283319c	comment	Tortured Monster: The monster is a very intelligent Creature that is fully aware of how hideous and repulsive he is. Anything wrong he does is borne entirely out of bitterness from how people treat him.
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Frankenstein / int_f68664dc	type	Science Is Bad
Frankenstein / int_f68664dc	comment	Is Frankenstein a bad scientist (who did a bad experiment), a bad father (who abandoned the son he had created), or a bad God (a flawed mortal who ran in fear from his own creation)? Well, that's something you'll just have to decide for yourself. Most re-tellings of the story will make the choice for you, however, by simply declaring that Science Is Bad, period, and putting Always Chaotic Evil stamps all over the place.
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Frankenstein / int_f76f8943	type	Bruiser with a Soft Center
Frankenstein / int_f76f8943	comment	Bruiser with a Soft Center: The Creature is hinted to be this: all he wants to do is love humans. However, since everyone views him as a grotesque, hulking monster, everyone is scared of him and either runs away or attacks him on sight. When he hides in the shed of a family for several chapters he explains that he feels love and compassion for them; too bad that when he reveals himself to the family, they immediately attack him and drive him away. Over the course of the book, he begins to hate all humans, but still ambivalently wishes to help them, such as when he saves a girl from drowning in a stream.
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Frankenstein / int_fa6bfde9	type	Have a Gay Old Time
Frankenstein / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: Shelley's name for the monster, "the Creature," nowadays feels synonymous with "monster," but in fact was meant to invoke "something that is created." "Gay" is used as a synonym of "carefree," as that was its original meaning before taking on its modern meaning of "homosexual," which leads to things like these:
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Frankenstein	hasFeature	Jerks Are Worse Than Villains / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Just Think of the Potential! / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Kissing Cousins / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Lamarck Was Right / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Laughing Mad / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Let Me Tell You a Story / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Lightning Can Do Anything / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Like Reality, Unless Noted / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Little Old Lady Investigates / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Machiavelli Was Wrong / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Mainstream Obscurity / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Maker of Monsters / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Men Act, Women Are / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Miles to Go Before I Sleep / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Mister Seahorse / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Morally Ambiguous Doctorate / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Mother Nature, Father Science / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Nature Versus Nurture / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Necromantic / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Nested Story / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Not Blood Siblings / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Not Evil, Just Misunderstood / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Not Helping Your Case / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Officially Shortened Title / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Orwellian Retcon / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Otherworldly Communication Failure / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Our Homunculi Are Different / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Polar Madness / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Public Domain Canon Welding / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Pulling Your Child Away / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Revenge by Proxy / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Robot Master / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Scale of Scientific Sins / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Sci-Fi Horror / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Scrapbook Story / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Secondary Character Title / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Self-Immolation / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Shameful Source of Knowledge / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Shaming the Mob / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Shout-Out Theme Naming / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Significant Birth Date / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Spell My Name with a Blank / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Stern Chase / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Sympathetic Murderer / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	The Aloner / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	The Hero Dies / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	The Madness Place / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	The Power of Love / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	The Tower / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Tortured Monster / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Tragic Mistake / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Truer to the Text / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Turned Against Their Masters / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Ãœberwald / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Uncanny Valley / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Undeath Always Ends / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Vengeance Feels Empty / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Victorian Novel Disease / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Villain-Based Franchise / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Villain-by-Proxy Fallacy / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	What Measure Is a Non-Cute? / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Whole Episode Flashback / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Widowed at the Wedding / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Wife Husbandry / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Women Are Wiser / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	Year X / int_1bf83ffb
Frankenstein	hasFeature	You Need to Get Laid / int_1bf83ffb
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