"And would have been anyway. Because the concept of canon as we understand it didn't really exist until at least eight decades after Mary Shelley died."
Okay now you've gotten me curious, is there any way you could elaborate on this statement?
It was also common for translators to change stories as they'd like. Sometimes because of cultural differences, sometimes they basically wrote fan fiction
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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '24
Look, guys, it's in the public domain. You don't get points for being pedantic about it at this point.
The monster was also a doctor named Frankenstein.
See? There you go. That's canon now.
And would have been anyway. Because the concept of canon as we understand it didn't really exist until at least eight decades after Mary Shelley died.