History YMMV / Frankenstein

* FriendlyFandoms: With {{Dracula}}. Both the books have been compared to one another from the time ''Dracula'' was published, as both of them are {{Scrapbook Stor|y}}ies that took old-school horror tropes and placed them in modern (at the time) settings with modern (at the time) technologies, to great effect. Adding in the [[Franchise/UniversalHorror Universal]] and [[Film/HammerHorror Hammer]] movies, have ensured that the two works remain widely associated with each other to this day.

** Despite being pretty insignificant to the overall story, Justine's meek personality and NiceGirl status has made her quite popular to the fans, who think her death is one of the most tragic parts of the book and the point at which Victor [[MoralEventHorizon crosses the line from self-absorbed and troubled to irredeemable and evil]].

* {{Anvilicious}}: Creating life specifically is hubris and fundamentally flawed is heavy-handedly hammered into the reader.

* EnsembleDarkHorse: Despite being pretty insignificant to the overall story, Justine's meek personality and NiceGirl status has made her quite popular to the fans, who think her death is one of the most tragic parts of the book and the point at which Victor [[MoralEventHorizon crosses the line from self-absorbed and troubled to irredeemable and evil]].

* AwesomeMusic: ''Frankenstein: A New Musical'' isn’t well known but has some gems:

** Everyone "knows" that Victor sewed together bits and pieces of several corpses to make his creature and brought it to life with electricity. While Mary Shelley/Victor does make reference to galvanism and it quite likely inspired Shelley while writing her story, the book itself is vague on the exact process. Deliberately so; Victor outright says he's not going to explain how he did it, for fear of someone else duplicating his mistakes. The most the reader knows for sure is that he dug up bodies and cut up cadavers for research; whether or not he actually built the creature out of them is never made clear, as is how he actually brought the creature to life.

** [[IAmNotShazam Everyone "knows" that Frankenstein is the creature]], or at least used to. Nowadays it's fairly common in fiction to hear one character snootily correct another about it being the name of the scientist and not the monster. This leads to the quip, "Knowledge is learning that Frankenstein isn't the monster -- wisdom is understanding that Frankenstein [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters is the monster]]". One could FanWank that the monster is effectively Victor's son, therefore inherits his surname, and therefore Frankenstein ''is'' the monster's name -- but whether this implication was intentional or not, the text never actually refers to him as such.

** [[IAmNotShazam Everyone "knows" that Frankenstein is the creature]], or at least used to. Nowadays it's fairly common in fiction to hear one character snootily correct another about it being the name of the scientist and not the monster. This leads to the quip, "Knowledge is realizing that Frankenstein isn't the monster -- wisdom is realizing that Frankenstein [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters is the monster]]". One could FanWank that the monster is effectively Victor's son, therefore inherits his surname, and therefore Frankenstein ''is'' the monster's name -- but whether this implication was intentional or not, the text never actually refers to him as such.

* DracoInLeatherPants: The Creature/Adam Frankenstein/The Monster, whatever you want to call him. In most adaptations of Mary Shelley's novel, he often does get treated much more sympathetically, most notably in the original film, which makes him into a clueless monster that doesn't know its own strength. In the novel itself, while he is a ultimately a tragic figure who feels remorse by the end and commits suicide, he is much smarter and uses said intelligence to willingly commit several premeditated murders and frame an innocent for one of them.

** Who is the real monster? Is it Victor for being irresponsible and neglectful towards his creation and then refusing to create a companion for him, inadvertently leading to the monster killing his friends and family? Or is it the monster, for actually causing the deaths?

* DracoInLeatherPants: The Creature/Adam Frankenstein/The Monster, whatever you want to call him. In most adaptations of Mary Shelley's novel, he often does get treated much more sympathetically, most notably in the original film, which makes him into a clueless monster that doesn't know its own strength. In the novel itself, he is much smarter and uses said intelligence to commit premeditated murders and frame an innocent for one of them. To be fair, he does feel rather bad at the end, and decides to commit suicide.

* MainstreamObscurity: The work has had a lot of influence in pop culture. However, only a small portion of those who have quoted or referenced the character have read the novel.