• guy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s a silly nitpick anyway. The monster, Adam, calls the doctor, Victor Frankenstein, his father. Surnames are inherited, thus they are both Frankensteins.

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      1 year ago

      Also, it’s not uncommon to call a creation after it’s creator (“that painting is a Van Gogh”), so calling him “a Frankenstein” works too.

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      1 year ago

      Kind of a cop-out, since Dr. Frankenstein is referred to as such in the book and the creature never is.