me, reading mary shelley's frankenstein: huh, the melodrama and extreme emotionality remind me of "the sorrows of young werther"

frankenstein's monster, a few chapters in: so i found a suitcase with "the sorrows of young werther" in it and read it and based my personality on it,
amazing that the monster is chilling in his hovel and someone just leaves a valise in the woods with goethe, plutarch and milton in it and its just never explained
frankenstein's monster in movies: *grunts, groans, shuffles*

frankenstein's monster in the book: *eloquent discourse for like a hundred pages straight, heartrendingly articulated emo laments, relays an entire subplot that could be its own novel about some people he stalked*
the sorrows of young monster

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