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Lobster 25 points a year ago

I think the problem is the students are giving too much credence to the monster's monologues, but "He is eloquent and persuasive, and once his words had even power over my [Frankenstein's] heart; but trust him not."

All that aside, you can't look past strangling a 4-year-old boy. It's reasonable to call anything that strangles a 4-year-old boy a monster, even if it felt lonely/abandoned.

And even the monster has the self-insight to know that he's fundamentally evil: "I had cast off all feeling, subdued all anguish, to riot in the excess of my despair. Evil thenceforth became my good."

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Lobster 19 points a year ago

the creature itself was innocent.

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.

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Lobster 14 points a year ago

Nick Groom, external, a professor of English literature at the University of Exeter, who has written a new introduction to mark the novel's 200th anniversary since publication.

“It’s interesting when I teach the book now, students are very sentimental towards the being,” Professor Groom wrote.

“There’s been a gradual shift... for years Victor Frankenstein’s creation was known as the Monster, then critics seemed to identify him as a victim and called him the Creature. That fits more with students’ sensibilities today.”

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Lobster 13 points a year ago

All mythology is public domain

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Lobster 11 points a year ago

The murders make him a monster.

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Lobster 10 points a year ago

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."

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Lobster 9 points 9 months ago

cat pictures

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Lobster 9 points a year ago

No. There's no mention of who the brain (or any other part) came from. Frankenstein gathered them from various charnel houses.

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Lobster 8 points 5 months ago

Good luck with it. I read your PDF. Let me know if you want any advice.

I'm not sure having no coaches is a good idea. A martial arts coach is a perfect example of "justified hierarchy". And you do mark skill disparities as one of the major issues you're facing.

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Lobster 7 points 9 months ago

Shotgun to be specific

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Lobster 6 points 17 days ago

Librivox

FreeOTP

OSMand

Syncthing

File manages, epub readers, basic utilities like that

OpenVPN

PipePipe

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Lobster 5 points a year ago

You could....

Frankenstein! you belong then to my enemy—to him towards whom I have sworn eternal revenge; you shall be my first victim.’

The child still struggled and loaded me with epithets which carried despair to my heart; I grasped his throat to silence him, and in a moment he lay dead at my feet.

I gazed on my victim, and my heart swelled with exultation and hellish triumph; clapping my hands, I exclaimed, ‘I too can create desolation; my enemy is not invulnerable; this death will carry despair to him, and a thousand other miseries shall torment and destroy him

...but I didn't read it that as an accident. Imagine using that defense in a courtroom: "I wasn't trying to kill the child, I was trying to kidnap him for revenge. I killed him by accident when choking him to silence him." Especially given the physical mismatch of a huge heavyweight versus a tiny child.

As I said earlier, "I think the problem is the students are giving too much credence to the monster’s monologues"

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Lobster 5 points 19 days ago

How often do you lay awake thinking of other peoples mistakes?

It's hard to remember other people's past mistakes. This goes to show that YOU are the only one fucking up. The rest of us are lying awake thinking about what a disaster YOU are.

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Lobster 5 points 3 months ago

keys on a ring I between your fingers

If you think this works, try it on a bag and report back.

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Lobster 5 points 3 months ago

Steel water bottle with one end narrowed to be a convenient handle –

A fat water bottle can't be gripped. Bad handle = bad weapon –

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Lobster 3 points a year ago

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.

But it is true that I am a wretch. 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. There he lies, white and cold in death. You hate me, but your abhorrence cannot equal that with which I regard myself.

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Lobster 3 points a year ago

Can't RSS bots do this?

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Lobster 2 points a year ago

It's not about hiding secrets from everyone.

It's about not authorising the military-industrial complex to have that unjust power over us.

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Lobster 2 points a year ago

Who?

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Lobster 2 points a year ago

What's the worst thing done to the monster, in your opinion?

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