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It's very much not innocent, it's a serial strangler.
"I murdered her. William, Justine, and Henry—they all died by my hands."
Why does the internet think the monster is innocent? It's there in black and white and we've all read the book.
The gun is also innocent, yet it's used to murder.
Nobody screams to destroy all guns.
The monster is a product, created by a man. In both cases.
A gun in an inanimate object. The monster is a self-described murderer.
"I have murdered the lovely and the helpless; I have strangled the innocent as they slept and grasped to death his throat who never injured me or any other living thing. I have devoted my creator, the select specimen of all that is worthy of love and admiration among men, to misery; I have pursued him even to that irremediable ruin."
The point of the book isn’t just “people are the real monsters”, but also that evil begets evil. The creature is only ever shown hatred and cruelty, so it begins acting out as something that should be hated. By the end of the book, it has murdered multiple people. The victim eventually becomes the victimizer, which brings the tragedy full circle.
Simply saying “The creature was a victim” lacks any kind of nuance regarding the rest of the book. Yes, the creature was a victim. Then it became a monster, because it had always been treated as if it was one.
That sounds more nuanced, but is still a really bad take. A better take on this is the film "Monster" about Aileen Wuornos. If life never gives you a chance, you can be violent, yet still a victim.
Jeez, tiktok reading comprehension these days.
The creature was innocent. And from the start he had no defense against the monster's machinations.
It's a weird internet-meme that the monster is innocent. Internet-dwellers have been posting that 2018 tweet as confirmation, as though that supercedes the text.
I think you missed the point of the was (past tense) being in italics?
The modern (slash "always has been") point of the story is that Frankenstein's monster created a creature then made it a monster.
Well, it's admittedly been some time I watched any of the various adoptions but didn't the monster inherit some psycho killer's brain? So it has the killers personality but not his memories?
No. There's no mention of who the brain (or any other part) came from. Frankenstein gathered them from various charnel houses.