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¿Sabían que uno de los errores más comunes de la cultura pop es llamar Frankenstein al monstruo, cuando en realidad ese es el apellido de su creador?

En la novela original de Mary Shelley publicada en 1818, el científico se llama Víctor Frankenstein y la criatura que él ensambla nunca recibe un nombre propio en las casi 300 páginas del libro.

A lo largo de la historia, Víctor se refiere a su creación con términos bastante crudos como "demonio", "serpiente", "monstruo", "engendro" o simplemente "la criatura". El hecho de que el monstruo no tenga nombre es un punto clave de la trama, ya que simboliza su falta de identidad, su rechazo por parte de la sociedad y la negligencia de su "padre" científico, quien lo abandona a su suerte en cuanto ve que su experimento cobró vida.

La confusión masiva empezó sobre todo con las adaptaciones al cine, especialmente la película de 1931 protagonizada por Boris Karloff, donde el título "Frankenstein" aparecía en grande mientras se veía la cara del monstruo en los carteles. Curiosamente, en la novela, la criatura llega a compararse a sí misma con el personaje bíblico de Adán, pero aclara con tristeza que, por el trato que recibe, se siente más como un "ángel caído".

#Literatura #Frankenstein #MaryShelley #Cine

Today in Labor History March 29, 1797: William Godwin married Mary Wollstonecraft. Godwin was an English journalist, philosopher and novelist. And one of the first modern proponents of anarchism. His most famous books are “An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice” and “Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams,” a mystery novel that attacks aristocratic privilege. Wollstonecraft was a British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights, and is regarded by many as one of the founding feminist philosophers. Her most famous book was “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (1792). She died 11 days after giving birth to her second daughter, Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #feminism #marywollstonecraft #williamgodwin #philosophy #novel #fiction #frankenstein #maryshelley #books #author #writer #journalism @bookstadon

I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.
-- Mary Shelley (Frankenstein)

#Wisdom #Quotes #MaryShelley #Hate #Love

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Today in Labor History March 25, 1811: Oxford University expelled Percy Bysshe Shelley for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism. Shelley was an English Romantic poet, radical in both his art and his politics. His poem "The Mask of Anarchy," which he wrote in 1819 after the Peterloo Massacre, is one of the first modern descriptions of nonviolent resistance. His admirers included Karl Marx, Gandhi and George Bernard Shaw. He was married to Mary Shelley, author of “Frankenstein.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchy #anarchism #atheism #marx #poetry #peterloo #massacre #PercyBisheShelley #gandhi #MaryShelley #frankenstein #writer #author #books #fiction #poet @bookstadon

#Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, one of the great novels is still vital and relevant over 200 years after its publication.

The daughter of firebrand British #anarchists #MaryWollstonecraft and #WilliamGodwin, #MaryShelley infused her masterpiece with the values of her radical milieu and her own experiences as a political and social outsider.

https://thetransmetropolitanreview.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/an-anarchists-guide-to-frankenstein/

An Anarchist’s Guide to Frankenstein

An in-depth analysis of the novel Frankenstein, as well as a biography of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley

the transmetropolitan review
Insurrezione, tumulto, ribellione!

di Sandro Moiso Che cosa sei tu, Libertà? Oh, potessero gli schiavi rispondere dalle tombe [...]

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#Hörbuch Streaming Tipp 🗣️
#MaryShelley — Der Traum
Von der Schöpferin von #Frankenstein
https://youtu.be/Nmwpu-WxKdY?is=i81RGA1fBPDKpdib
Von der Schöpferin von Frankenstein: DER TRAUM – Mary Shelley

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The Bride!

Mary Shelley, Frankensteins Monster und Bonny und Clyde treffen in diesem Film von Maggie Gyllenhaal aufeinander und bilden ein wildes Amalgam aus zeitgetreuer 30er Jahre Optik, fiebertraumhafter Erzählstruktur, feministischen Anklängen und der Zerrissenheit zwischen Lieben-Geliebtwerden, Ich-Du-Gesellschaft und Selbstfindung ähnlich wie bei #PoorThings. Ein Film, der sich traut nicht alles zu erklären, sondern es uns selbst überlässt, darüber nachzudenken, was der tiefere Sinn ist. Wird wohl leider nicht jedem gefallen - aber wer ein kreatives Werk mit Anspruch an eigene Denkleistung sucht, könnte Gefallen finden. Darüber hinaus ein toller Cast mit sehr soliden Leistungen.

⭐️ 4/5

#Kino #Film #Kurzkritik #Filmbewertung #Frankenstein #MaryShelley #maggiegyllenhaal #Fiebertraum

The Bride! review – Jessie Buckley is electrifying as frizzy-haired, black-tongued monster’s wife

The actor has a blast as bride to Christian Bale’s lonely creature in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s darkly comic and gleefully bizarre reimagining of the 1935 film

The Guardian