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- The monster in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein does not have a name. In the novel, he is variously referred to as a monster, a wretch, a fiend, and even a demon, but he is never given a name.
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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley
- 1818
Victor Frankenstein is actually the name of the man who created the Monster. The Monster doesn’t have a name.
Jun 26, 2024 · Frankenstein is the title character in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, the prototypical ‘mad scientist’ who creates a monster by which he is eventually killed. The name Frankenstein has become attached to the creature itself, who has become one of the best-known monsters in the history of film.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Type of work Novel. Genre Gothic science fiction. Language English. Time and place written Switzerland, 1816, and London, 1816–1817. Date of first publication January 1, 1818. Publisher Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones. In-depth Facts:
- Matters of life and death. Young Mary Shelley (née Godwin) never got to know her mother, the pioneering feminist and philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft, author of the radical treatise A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, which was published in 1792.
- Thunder, lightning and scary stories. During unseasonably stormy weather in the summer of 1816, Mary and her future husband, the poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley, playboy poet Lord Byron and other members of their party passed the time at the Villa Diodati near Lake Geneva by concocting ghost stories.
- The man who wrote Frankenstein? Gay rights activist John Lauritsen continues to argue that Mary Shelley was not the true author of Frankenstein. Rather, he believes, her husband Percy wrote it in secrecy to air his latent homosexuality.
- Mary Shelley’s Scotland. The origins of Frankenstein go back a little further than Shelley’s feverish dream in Switzerland. At the age of 14, she was sent to live with the Baxter family on the outskirts of Dundee.
The story was adapted for the stage in 1927 by Peggy Webling, and Webling's Victor Frankenstein does give the creature his name. However, the creature has no name in the Universal film series starring Boris Karloff during the 1930s, which was largely based upon Webling's play. [8]
Mar 6, 2024 · “Frankenstein” is a novel written by Mary Shelley, first published anonymously in 1818. It tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
