Snowflake students claim Frankenstein's monster was misunderstood -- and is in fact a VICTIM

[Dr. Strange]

SNOWFLAKE students claim Frankenstein’s monster was a misunderstood victim with feelings.

A professor has even suggested the lab-created murderer could be protected by human rights laws.
Frankenstein has been dubbed 'misunderstood' by snowflake students who see the monster as a victim

Frankenstein has been dubbed 'misunderstood' by snowflake students who see the monster as a victim

English author Mary Shelley’s classic novel Frankenstein has terrified millions since it was first published in 1818.

In it, scientist Victor Frankenstein’s monster gets snubbed by society and then murders his creator’s brother, pal and bride. But an academic has revealed growing support for the beast in the introduction to a 200th anniversary edition of the book.

More Frankensteiny goodness at
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5732932/snowflake-students-dub-frakenstein-misunderstood-victim/

Why, those crazy college students/professors with their silly newfangled interpretations!

Suffice it to say, The Sun hasn't escaped scorn for their ignorance:
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2018/03/sun-accuses-snowflakes-misunderstanding-frankenstein-while-misunderstanding

https://gizmodo.com/intrepid-reporters-catch-snowflake-students-correctly-s-1823569523

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/pam9wb/the-sun-has-really-outdone-itself-with-that-frankenstein-article


"Knowledge is knowing Frankenstein is not the monster. Wisdom is knowing that Frankenstein is the monster."
— Jacob Bailey

[Adrahil]

1. Yeah.... ummmm...

I mean... that's a pretty basic understanding of the work. WTF?

[poboy2]

3. Staggering ignorance and proud of it.

The story has always been taught that way.
My personal experience, middle school English Lit., 30-40 years ago.

The Sun has to catapult the propaganda/narrative.

Apparently if you 'know stuff', you are a 'snowflake' in their eyes.

[lapfog_1]

11. Young Frankenstien was released 44 years ago

The definitive take on the subject.

[Adrahil]

15. Superb work!!! NT

[FSogol]

2. Timely!

[Initech]

4. He must have had the wrong brain put in.

[Dr. Strange]

7. Excuse me, but this thread is about Frankenstein.

Not Frankensteen!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. Snowflake students claim Chuggo puts mayonnaise on everything, that's how he eats.

[Dr. Strange]

9. Snowflake students are right!

Fuckin guys!

[Shrike47]

6. I thought it was pretty obvious when I read it @1960.

[Orange Free State]

8. Perhaps the article writers exposure

To the Frankenstein Monster was only via watching “Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein”. In the novel he was pretty eloquent at times, and presented more sympathetically.

[DetlefK]

10. I have read "Frankenstein" and Viktor Frankenstein is the true monster. (SPOILER)

Viktor Frankenstein is a cocky young man. He's in love with a girl he knows since his childhood-days, but in a creepy way: He sees her as his property.

He creates life, the monster. Then he panics, because it's so ugly, and abandons it. And then he goes about his life as if this never happened.

Meanwhile the monster, all confused and full of childlike ignorance and naivete, wanders through the wilderness. Every single time humans see him, they panic because he's so ugly and try to kill him. Every. Single. Time.

Eventually, the monster no longer wants to be alone and hated. It wants to be loved and understood. It wants a wife. It wants Viktor Frankenstein to make him a wife.

When Viktor Frankenstein and the monster meet, Frankenstein insults and scolds the monster: How dare he demand human rights? How dare he lift a finger against a human, even in self-defense? He's a worthless piece of shit!!!

The monster blackmails Frankenstein: Make me a bride or I'll kill your friends and family.

Frankenstein wants to buy time and says that he has to search for an isolated place where he can set up a laboratory.

In a lab in Scotland, Frankenstein makes the bride, but when she's almost done, he destroys her: He's afraid that she and the monster would have kids and that this new species would compete with mankind.

With his bride destroyed, the monster vows revenge: "I will be with you on your wedding-night."

Naturally, Viktor Frankenstein returns home, marries his fiancée and leaves her alone during the wedding-night to seek out and kill the monster. The monster sneeks into the bedroom and kills her.

Then the monster heads off to travel towards the North-pole, because it wants to live alone and far away from humans.

Viktor Frankenstein hunts the monster, catches a deadly cold and has to end the hunt.

The monster visits Frankenstein on his deathbed. Frankenstein tells the monster, it's still a piece of shit. The monster forgives him.

The monster continues its travel.

[LexVegas]

12. Dude...spoiler alert.

[DetlefK]

13. ??? There is a spoiler-alert.

[TlalocW]

14. Obvious they've never read the book

I'm guessing they probably haven't even seen any of the movies.

They're probably basing their opinion of the Monster off of an old beer commercial where he steals a semi full of beer (carries it over his head) to bring to a party with Dracula, Wolfman, and the Mummy.

Just looked it up on YouTube - first commercial in this series. It's actual a Pepsi semi.

TlalocW

[alarimer]

16. He only became a monster when he was treated like one.

Which says more about humanity than anything else.

Human society can be brutal to anyone who doesn't "fit in" for any reason. And some outcasts do become monsters, for lack of a better word. If we want to understand why some people do bad things, we do have to look to society and families for the reasons (other than a clear diagnosis of some pathology).

[DetlefK]

17. I took him more of a case of childhood-abuse and -neglect.

[uriel1972]

18. Frankenstein is a novel...

not about the hubris of science, but bad parenting....

[TheSmarterDog]

19. What else do you expect from Rupert Murdock?