These snowflakes smh
The sad part is that thousands of people will see the tweet by The Sun and think, "these freaking snowflake Millennials just can't break out of their fantasy world! Frankenstein (sic) was a MONSTER! THAT MEANS HE WAS THE BAD GUY! MONSTERS ARE BAD! Damn Millennials need everything spelled out for them!"
If I recall, he wasn't referred to as 'the monster' in the book, but rather as 'the creature'.
Intelligence is knowing that Frankenstein wasn't the monster. Wisdom is knowing that Frankenstein was the monster.
'Frankenstein' was the doctor's last name. The monster was his son. Therefore the monster's last name is also Frankenstein.
Fun Fact: One of the authors of this piece (because of course it takes 2 people to write something this dumb) had "Literary Fanatic" in her Twitter Bio but removed it when she realised how dumb this article was.
But his name is Frankenstein, Adam Frankenstein to be exact. It’s two separate parts in the book, one part he says “I ought to be thy Adam” and another he says something like “what better than the name of my maker/father” when asked about his surname iirc.
I mean, if Victor Frankenstein was his father then his name would still be Frankenstein, yeah? So like...
I actually get irritated by people pointing this out. First, it only applies to references to the book. The movie series and many other works explicitly identify the monster as Frankenstein. Secondly, and more importantly, the monster in the book identifies himself as Victor's son. Victor refers to the creature as his son. There is an explicit familial connection, so it makes sense that he'd use the surname.
3 more replies
The doctor literally built and abandoned him... That's the plot...
I'm not like an expert on Frankenstein but didn't he kill a bunch of people? Isn't that like a pretty shit thing to do, even if you were abandoned? He was sentient right?
Dont forget his promised companion, then that was snatched away to because "Dr." Victor Frankenstein was a bitch
The doctor.
The university dropout.
Victor Frankenstein was shit.
You know what, my least favorite part about Good Will Hunting was how Will was emotionally distant from his girlfriend and self-sabotaged when it came to his career. He should have just been nicer to her. I also didn't like Schindler's List because I could have done without the whole Holocaust part.
In the book, the monster is legit more articulate than the doctor.
His sentence structure was so complicated that it was sometimes hard to understand what he was saying... wait!!!
3 more replies
The average reading age of the sun's readership is 8 so wonder they don't understand frankenstein.
https://straighttothesource.wordpress.com/2013/08/27/reading-age-and-readability/
The average reading age of the UK population is 9 years – that is, they have achieved the reading ability normally expected of a 9 year old.
What the fuck, this can't be true, can it? Or am I misunderstanding?
Optimistic of anyone to think a person at The Sun has read a book, too.
1 more reply
Any basic high school analysis of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein would lead anyone with basic reasoning skills to conclude that the monster was Dr. Frankenstein himself, not his "abominable creation." The poor guy was hated by all the townsfolk simply by nature of his existence. The book isn't some basic, straightforward science fiction novel where a man creates a monster that terrorizes a town; rather, it's an allegory about both the risks of man extending his reach into a domain that does not belong to him as well as people fearing and hating that which they don't understand. It really was a revolutionary book for its time.
1 more reply
snowflake students actually read and understand book. Kids these days, I tell ya
The feel so entitled to good grades that they cheat by doing their work.
I feel like the "snowflakes" stated that without realising its the premise of the book
That's fucking absurd. Literally the entire premise of the book is that the actions and abhorrent behavior of his creator led him to become that way.
I half wonder if these people even read books.
3 more replies
It's a disappointing to have to see this so far down. Should be top comment.
3 more replies
They will not because simple headlines like these make money
most "anti-SJW" stuff relies upon not reading too much into things. their entire ideology revolves around combating a threat that they themselves have constructed, or fighting back against people who either don't find their jokes to be funny or simply want them to behave with basic human decency.
stuff like this article is often done the same way, where random comments made by a single person (or multiple comments made by random people on the internet with literally zero visibility) are exaggerated to make it seem like hordes of blue haired feminists all over america also believe this ridiculous thing.
but their entire politics is that it's actually smart to be ignorant.
It’s The Sun, a tabloid. Headlines like this are what they do, because idiots like OP get upset and click.
Its dumb, because when people think of frankensteins monster they think some dumb ugly monster with stitches and corks in him. In reality the og frankenstiens monster was rather handsome, he just just had weird looking eyes. And he also was far from stupid, he camped out at a blind guy's house and learned a ton of stuff, even hung out with him before his family members chased him out. He WAS a victim. Frankenstien basically abandoned a giant baby. Frankenstien was an asshole too, when his own monster kills someone and his sisters friend is accused of the murder he just sits there and lets her falsely confess and die. He KNOWS shes innocent, but if he says what really happened he might come into suspicion. Frankenstiens monster just wanted someone like him, someone to love then he'd be happy but Frankenstien was too worried about the consequences of making him a lover (little late to worry about things like that lol) he just doesnt do it.
"Believe me, Frankenstein, I was benevolent; my soul glowed with love and humanity."
Nah. Look up the Hillsborough disaster and tell me they're the same.
1 more reply
1 more reply
How do you get a job at a newspaper when you’re illiterate?
Didn’t the monster kill people? I know I could be completely wrong so please don’t downvote but a really long time ago I read a book about Frankenstein’s monster and I feel like I remember him killing people.
Yeah the monster killed Victor’s younger brother, his close friend, and his wife. Also indirectly killed Victor but that one was justified
Yeah, he wasn't the good guy in that book, nobody was. Yes, he had terrible thing happen to him, but he still committed terrible acts. He murdered a child and blamed framed an innocent woman. In order to seek revenge on his creator he murdered even more innocents.
1 more reply
Looks like a repost. I've seen this image 3 times.
First seen in MediocrityNow on 2019-08-30 85.94% match. First seen in WhitePeopleTwitter on 2019-12-01 89.06% match
Searched Images: 82,832,307 | Indexed Posts: 351,520,395 | Search Time: 2.05374s
Feedback? Hate? Visit r/repostsleuthbot - I'm not perfect, but you can help. Report [ False Positive ]
So who was at fault fellas? Frankenstein? Or the creature? Who was the bad guy?
Frankenstein carelessly (without thought for its well being) created a sentient being and abandoned it.. society rejected it, and the monster made a murder revenge plot.
All parties are at fault, but Victor’s arrogance is what caused the problem, and he admits this at the end of the book.
It’s honestly sad, because parents and societies do sometimes reject real children this way.
Boy howdy will the sun not like it when they find out the book is secretly a statement on feminism
That IS what the book was about. The monster tried his best to make friends with others but they were all terrified of his appearance and it made him bitter. He was even willing to get out of Frankenstein and everyone else's lives if Frankenstein would agree to make a wife for him, but Frankenstein was afraid that they would end up having children and he destroyed the female (why didn't he just make her sterile?) and that's why the monster attacked Frankenstein's wife.
1 more reply
Mary Shelly wrote a marvelous story and people have been getting it wrong from the start. Victor Frankenstein was the monster.
Pour me another neck bolt. Just to mix up another author. Since nobody seems to read anyway.
Breaking: Millenials actually read Frankenstein and understood what the message was. More at 11.
crazy thing is it doesn't require a high school reading level I think an eighth grade reading level is sufficient to read Frankenstein
1 more reply
yeah but like did he have to murder his family though
Man idk yall, the monster was totally a dick the whole time in the original
Conservatives always blame the victim and never understand lit.
The plot is literally Victor creating his monster, and abandoning it because he’s so ugly, and horrid. The monster only asks for a chance to prove himself
3 more replies
No surprise there, fuck the S*n and their shit journalism.
Look, the monster got abused and abandoned, and in no way do his sins absolve Victor’s, but he also:
Murdered Victor’s younger brother for no other reason than he insulted him and was Victor’s brother
Framed Justine for the aforementioned act (granted, it was Victor who truly murdered her)
Murdered Clerval for no reason other than to hurt Victor (granted, this was after Victor did something very dumb because of a very easily medically solved problem, but still, Clerval was innocent)
Murdered Victor’s bride/cousin/sister/whatever (Elizabeth?) for no reason other than to hurt Victor
Contributed to the death of Victor’s father through the shock of having most of his family killed
Burned down the DeLaceys’ former house after they kicked him out because they saw a 7 or 8-foot tall horrifying monster clutching their father and his chair
Like, guy’s a tragic character, but specifically he’s a tragic villain.
In today's episode of "The Sun almost figures something out"...
Can we just agree that most modern media and journalism kinda sucks and leave it at that?
1 more reply
The entire story (I believe) is about frankenstein being the monster for abandoning this lovely creature for the small feature of weird eyes
For anyone who doesn’t who hasn’t read Frankenstein to understand why this is a facepalm.
I mean the whole thing was about Victor Frankenstein being the actual monster.
The creature was an innocent soul, a pariah and attacked by humanity everywhere. As far as I remember he ended up killing Victor's younger brother, his friend and fiance to get his own revenge on his creator.
Damn SJWs and their (shuffles deck) interpreting works of literature!
Did they just call students snowflakes for a literary analysis? Even if they're wrong, its a book you cant truly know what the author meant all you can do is back up the claim.
1 more reply
The movie Joker is much like the original Frankenstein written by Mary Shelly. It's a tragic story of how society took a creature with the greatest potential to love and turn him into a monster.
He was broken and egocentric from start to finish. You can sympathise with him but "greatest potential to love"? Come on.
Wasn't it about creating something that you can not control that in the end bring ruin upon the creator of said monster?
Frankenstein was constantly attacked by humanity for what he was and was never given the chance to be anything but a monster.
Millennials side with entitled child asking for more food after he’s already eaten, at the expense of taxpayers
Edit: Oliver Twist
I knew this would somehow turn into a generational thing. Bless you Reddit.
The writer of the article is Thea Jacob's. She is currently in her late 20s.
Intelligence is knowing that Frankenstein wasn’t the monster. Wisdom is realizing that actually Frankenstein was the monster.
1 more reply
Call younger people snowflakes but can’t handle being called boomer
kind of hard to argue when the author of the book thought that too
would upvote, but this has been reposted millions of times already
Ah, the soul is so light when unencumbered by education or intelligence!
What? You mean people described as 'monsters' might not be one-sided villains after all? Nah that's too complex for a book wrote by like a 7 year old, monster bad lol - The Sun newspaper, probably
I read Frankenstein when I was in 4th grade. I cried. I felt so bad for the monster. I still sympathize with him.
Snowflakes are so sensitive that they can't even take criticism from an inaccurate tables headline...
They all have compassion on him until they find out he didn’t believe in global warming.
i think its meant in a serial killer are victims kind of way.
Everyone knows it's the old story of how the means of production gets seized by the bourgeois and the proletariat is denied the profit of what his labor produces.
The English will say anything to start a drama Filled flame war online. Lol
![Subreddit icon](data:image/svg+xml,<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="926" height="926"><rect fill-opacity="0"/></svg>)
Looks like a repost. I've seen this image 2 times.
First seen in MediocrityNow on 2019-08-30 85.94% match. First seen in WhitePeopleTwitter on 2019-09-01 89.06% match
Searched Images: 76,713,309 | Indexed Posts: 351,623,644 | Search Time: 1.78616s
Feedback? Hate? Visit r/repostsleuthbot - I'm not perfect, but you can help. Report [ False Positive ]
Eh... While she's right in that the monster is meant to be pitied, that's not really the main focus of the book. The monster is more an unbridled force that doesn't exhibit much character. The primary focus is on Frankenstein and the whole man playing at being a God thing, creating a monster and then having to be responsible for his creation.
Prometheus
Adam and Eve/The Serpent and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
Frankenstein
Basically the same story or same point told differently.
Rags like the Sun or Daily Mail will turn an ordinary story into something sinister or sensationalized to whip up the foam into people’s mouths to get them prepped to bay for blood.
Oh, god, this is sending me back to High school english where we discussed if the monster was human and responsible for his actions.
I believed he was, as he is shown to have intelligence and adapt to his surroundings
I did this in high school. we had to performa mock trial to either prove Frankenstein was responsible or the monster for his murders.
I’m bad and that’s good. I’m never going to be good and that’s not bad. I wouldn’t want to be anybody but me.
This is pretty interesting if it's real, could do a social experiment on generational discrimination using the writer of this article. Find out what drives him to ridicule those he views as lesser, and how he justifies doing it mentally.
Yeah but whats so facepalm about it, noons was wrong or stupid
Media companies do not give two shits about the accuracy or integrity of headlines - they only want clicks and comments.
These guys are gonna loose it when they find out the author was a feminist lesbian who had threesomes with her cousin
That’s why you don’t buy the fucking waste of ink that is the S*n
Fun fact: The original Frankenstein's monster was actually handsome but had really weird yellow eyes that freaked people out. ( Take this info with a grain of salt)
Next thing these snowflakes will be telling me To Kill a Mockingbird is about racism.
The sun readers are too slow anyway, they might not have heard of Frankenstein
1 more reply
The people at The Sun know that, they also know their readers don't know that.
It's The S*n. They're anti-intellectual, anti-fact, dissemblers of the highest order.
That's such a loaded, biased article title too, it's like saying:
"Is climate change real? Stupid nerdy scientist think so"
Well actually in the first movie it was planned for him to throw a little girl on the lake killing her to start the riots but it was deemed to graphic and cut the footage was only found in like the 80s.
“These young people these days, they can’t even understand books like we do”
What about „Frankensteins Boomer“. I would read that book. Probably. Only if I don’t have to stop playing games.
Frankenstein was not a monster.
Frankenstein was a monster.
MY GOD.
At least if you become a snowflake, you'd finally be unique.
That article is facepalm worthy and anyone thinking they have a hot take by claiming the monster was the victim deserves a facepalm too
115 more replies
![Subreddit icon](data:image/svg+xml,<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="256" height="256"><rect fill-opacity="0"/></svg>)
3.1m
Members
3.8k
Online
Aug 28, 2009
Cake Day
