Themes -- Naming
Naming: the Creature in this edition is identified as "the Creature" because that is what he calls himself and he is given no other name; but he is constantly defined, especially by Victor, by other names.
Title Page
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("Frankenstein")
Letter 2.5
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("Robert Walton")
Letter 4.1
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("A being which had the shape of a man")
Letter 4.4
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("Daemon")
Letter 4.4
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("Man")
Letter 4.5
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("Noble creature")
1.1.3
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("No creature")
1.2.7
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("A palpable enemy") [1831 only]
1.4.1
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("The creature open; it")
1.4.1
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("Wretch")
1.4.2
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("Demoniacal corpse")
1.4.2
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("Wretch -- the miserable monster")
1.4.3
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("Wretchedly")
1.4.6
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("This monster")
1.4.6
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("My enemy")
1.4.7
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("Dreaded spectre")
1.4.7
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("The monster")
1.4.8
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("an object")
1.6.7
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("The devil")
1.6.7
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("The wretch, the filthy demon")
1.6.8
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("Its departure")
1.7.5
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("The blackest ingratitude")
1.7.5
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("Daemon")
1.7.7
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("I almost began to think that I was the monster")
1.7.7
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("None but the devil")
1.7.9
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("A wretch")
1.7.10
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("I was a wretch")
2.1.2
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("The fiend")
2.1.2
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("The monster")
2.1.3
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("Monsters thirsting for each other's blood")
2.1.3
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("Such a wretch")
2.1.4
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("The fiend that lurked in my heart")
2.2.3
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("The wretch")
2.2.4
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("Begone, vile insect!")
2.2.4
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("Devil!")
2.2.4
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("Miserable beyond all living things")
2.2.4
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("Miserable head")
2.2.4
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("My creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature")
2.2.4
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("The tortures of hell")
2.2.4
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("The wretched")
2.2.5
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("Misery made me a fiend")
2.2.6
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("Abhorred devil")
2.2.7
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("The fiend with an air of exultation")
2.3.1
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("I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch")
2.3.7
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("Poor wretch")
2.4.3
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("Names of the cottagers")
2.4.3
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("I discovered the names")
2.4.3
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("Without being able as yet to understand or apply them")
2.4.5
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("When I became fully convinced ... the monster that I am")
2.4.6
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("Good spirit")
2.5.4
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("Stars of pale radiance among the moonlight woods")
2.5.5
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("Was I then a monster")
2.5.6
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("Miserable, unhappy wretch")
2.7.4
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("My form is a filthy type of your's")
2.7.8
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("A destable monster")
2.8.3
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("My protectors")
2.8.3
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("My wife")
2.8.5
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("My father")
2.8.9
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("Monster")
2.8.9
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("You are an ogre")
2.8.9
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("Hideous monster!")
2.8.9
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("My papa is a Syndic")
2.8.9
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("Loaded me with epithets")
2.9.1
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("Being")
2.9.2
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("Fiend")
3.1.1
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("Fiend")
3.1.5
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("Miserable wretch")
3.3.1
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("A fiend whose unparalleled barbarity")
3.3.1
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("A race of devils")
3.3.1
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("A thinking and reasoning animal")
3.3.2
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("The daemon")
3.3.2
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("A howl of devilish despair and revenge")
3.3.2
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("A person")
3.3.2
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("Tore to pieces the thing")
3.3.3
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("I can make you so wretched")
3.3.3
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("The wretch")
3.3.4
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("A daemon")
3.3.4
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("Devil")
3.3.4
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("My wretchedness")
3.3.5
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("A daemon")
3.3.7
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("Avoided ... any encounter")
3.4.11
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("The monster of my creation")
3.6.3
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("A grin was on the face of the monster")
3.6.5
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("The monster ... the daemon")
3.7.1
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("My fiendish enemy.")
3.7.2
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("The cursed and hellish monster")
3.7.2
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("Miserable wretch")
3.7.3
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("I was cursed ... eternal hell")
3.7.3
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("The devil")
3.7.6
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("A gigantic monster")
Walton 1
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("Apparition of the monster")
Walton 1
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("Demoniacal enemy")
Walton 3
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("The herd of common projectors")
Walton 4
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("So miserable a wretch")
Walton 14
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("My demoniacal design")
Walton 14
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("Wretch!")
