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* [[Either or Title]]: The entire title of the book is ''Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus''
* [[Final Speech]]: Frankenstein at the end, in which he warns Walton not to be too ambitious and seek happiness instead.
* [[For Science!]]: Victor's initial motivation for the Monster's creation, though mixed with personal motives due to the recent death of his mother.
* [[Framing Device]]: Gets kind of ridiculous when you realize that you're reading Walton's letter to his sister recounting Victor's story recounting his creature's monologue.
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* [[Gone Horribly Right]]
* [[Have a Gay Old Time]]: A ''lot''.
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* [[Mother Nature Father Science]]
* [[Moustache De Plume]]: [[Mary Shelley]] first published the book anonymously, leaving people to assume she was male. And with good reason: upon her reveal, literary critics of the time actually downplayed the book because of the author's gender.
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: the monster in the end, as he realizes that, after killing all that people and his own father, he has become the monster everybody thought he was.
** Victor himself, from Chapter 5 onward.
* [[Nested Story]]: At the deepest level: The family on whom the monster is spying is telling a story, within the monster's story to Frankenstein, who is in turn recounting the story to the captain of a ship in the Arctic, who is in turn telling someone else about it in a letter.
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* [[Power Trio]]: The three children who together represent the ideal man.
* [[Print Long Runners]]
* [[Punny Name]]: The name 'Victor' is actually a sneaky reference to ''[[Paradise Lost]]'' (a big influence on the story), as Milton often refers to God as 'the Victor'. And then, of course, [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|the Monster equates himself with Adam....]]
* [[Revenge By Proxy]]: The Creature decides to get revenge on Frankenstein for its own wretched existence by making him suffer, so he kills Frankenstein's youngest brother, followed by his greatest friend, and then on Frankenstein's wedding day, the monster strangles his bride.
* [[Rousing Speech]]: Victor Frankenstein gives an epic one to the soldiers on Walton's boat near the end when he wants them to continue northward.
* [[Scenery Porn]]: It is from the Romantic period, after all
* [[Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter!]]: Homeward bound from Ingolstadt, depressed Victor walks outside into a thunderstorm one night, and ''screams at the sky.''
* [[Spell My Name With a Blank]]: Used in the book, but for dates instead of places and names.
* [[Stern Chase]]: After all of Victor's family and friends are killed, he ends up in a lengthy pursuit of his creation, eventually reaching the Arctic. This is where Walton finds him.
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* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: Victor portrays his family as the perfect happy family at first, but if you pay attention he contradicts himself in a few places and the Frankenstein family doesn't look so happy after all.
* [[Victorious Childhood Friend]]: Victor and Elizabeth.
* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: At the end, Victor's brother Ernest is left unaccounted for; the entire rest of the Frankenstein family is dead.
* [[What Measure Is a Non
* [[Whole Episode Flashback]]
* [[Women Are Wiser]]: The women of the novel are all beautiful, religious, intelligent, gentle, and far happier than any of the men, to the point where they border on [[Purity Sue]].
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