Me too. Started with Treasure Island after I taught myself to read by memorizing the children’s books my mom would read to me.
Didn’t get to Frankenstein till I was in college but I actually wrote an entire essay on it as an allegory for creation but also as an allegory for man’s desire to overcome death by creating something they would come to worship in a sense, in this case scientism.
It’s actually from Paradise Lost by John Milton, Adam says it when he is becoming defiant towards God. It’s quite a sad scene and a generally tragic story, but it’s my favorite piece of literature. I’ve never read Frankenstein but I know it’s quoted on the title page so thought it was fitting, even though I don’t think Milton really thought we were created monsters as much as we become monsters but that’s a different question. Even Satan laments and regrets his defiance and secretly admits to himself that God wasn’t unfair towards him.
I’m not sure if Milton was influenced by a line from the story of the Golem though.
Oh this shit again
THE ENTIRE POINT OF FRANKENSTEIN IS AN ALLEGORY FOR THE ACT OF CREATION
FRANKENSTEIN MADE A LIVING THING WITHOUT CONSIDERING THE RESULT AND IN DOING SO, DROVE HIS CREATION TO ACTS OF MALICE AND MADNESS!
WE ARE ALL MADE VICTIMS, WE ARE ALL MADE MONSTERS!
wow WOKE nerd actually READS BOOK
I was reading chapter books when I was 5, I had to do for myself what my USAan schools refused to
That’s because the USian schools were trying to teach you the winners mindset of delegating your readungs to some egghead at coles notes.
Me too. Started with Treasure Island after I taught myself to read by memorizing the children’s books my mom would read to me.
Didn’t get to Frankenstein till I was in college but I actually wrote an entire essay on it as an allegory for creation but also as an allegory for man’s desire to overcome death by creating something they would come to worship in a sense, in this case scientism.
Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay
To mould me man? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?
I thought this was from the story of the Golem.
It’s actually from Paradise Lost by John Milton, Adam says it when he is becoming defiant towards God. It’s quite a sad scene and a generally tragic story, but it’s my favorite piece of literature. I’ve never read Frankenstein but I know it’s quoted on the title page so thought it was fitting, even though I don’t think Milton really thought we were created monsters as much as we become monsters but that’s a different question. Even Satan laments and regrets his defiance and secretly admits to himself that God wasn’t unfair towards him.
I’m not sure if Milton was influenced by a line from the story of the Golem though.
Whoa was Frankenstein actually antinatalist???
More about parental responsibilities really
If Frankenstein had cared more for his creation, then his creation wouldn’t have gone off the deep end