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Frankenstein's monster   /frˈæŋkənstˌaɪnz mˈɑnstər/   Listen
Frankenstein's monster

noun
1.
The monster created by Frankenstein in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (the creator's name is commonly used to refer to his creation).  Synonym: Frankenstein.






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"Frankenstein's monster" Quotes from Famous Books



... from an English actor, William Terriss, who was assassinated before he recovered from the dismay into which the result of his rash proposal threw him. For it must be said that the actor or actress who inspires or commissions a play as often as not regards it as a Frankenstein's monster, and will have none of it. That does not make him or her any the less parental in the fecundity of ...
— Great Catherine • George Bernard Shaw

... invalid, yet, in some degree, were but the devices to beguile the burdens of an invalid's days. Instead of remaining in our climate, it might be, to lie listless and helpless half the day, with no companion but his own thoughts and fancies (not always so pleasant either, if, like Frankenstein's monster, or, better still like the imp in the bottle in the Arabian Nights, you cannot, once for all liberate them, and set them adrift on their own charges to visit other people), he made a home in the sweeter air and more steady climate ...
— Robert Louis Stevenson - a Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial • Alexander H. Japp



Words linked to "Frankenstein's monster" :   fictional character, fictitious character, Frankenstein, character



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