Frankenstein is obsessed with the Illuminati

[Music] hi guys welcome to Noom and welcome to what's hopefully going to be a pretty interesting dip into the world of conspiracy although I'm worried to some of you it may sound completely insane I'm sure there's going to be at least some push back so just let me confirm that I have researched this very carefully I've studied Frankenstein in-depth in several different academic Settings and as far as I can tell this is all legitimate it's not well covered at all in comparison to the mountain of analysis that exists on all the other aspects of Frankenstein

it's mostly fleeting mentions in other broader or narrower analysis but it is legitimate no matter how incredible or silly it may seem at first and with this video I hope to cement that argument for good so fans of conspiracy fans of incredible literature and fans of horror in general I really hope there's going to be something for you here now we've all heard of the Illuminati the idea of a shadowy Zeitgeist controlling world event and cultural interactions from behind the scenes and I'm sure those more historically inclined among you will know that the Illuminati was

at one point in the late 1700s in Bavaria 100% a very real thing going by that exact name founded by Adam weissa the group was essentially a quasi Masonic Lodge Made up of whiteout students influential figures from around Bavaria and various academics and Enlightenment era thinkers relatively benign during their tenure but with vast and perhaps misguided aspirations of forcing change onto the world they were the very definition of a secret society at their Peak they were comprised of somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 members and before long their notoriety and sometimes alarming motivations became well known

enough That the Bavarian authorities decided to entirely Outlaw the order of illuminism threatening anyone that continued in its practices with execution Adam weit helped lived out the rest of his days in shame and Exile writing apologist manuscripts for the Illuminati and the mistakes he made if you want a slightly more detailed refresher on everything that went down there and everything Adam weab did then you can check out the video I just put up on my second Channel Link at the top of the screen for now though that word Enlightenment is really important the enlightenment essentially

refers to the period of advancement and learning seen in Europe in America between 1680 and 1820 specifically the flourishing of Arts and Sciences and the championing of Academia and cultural development the idea of Illumination being symbolic for knowledge is likely as older stories themselves in ancient Greece for example Prometheus stolen Knowledge from the gods was represented as fire a literal interpretation of Illumination and this makes sense the dark represents the unknown the Unseen and so light naturally represents the known in the case of artificial or created light I.E promethium fire or a light bulb above

the head illumination generally refers to attained knowledge education and Discovery or specifically stealing it from the gods in prometheus's case so enlightened Thinkers illuminated thinkers it's all synonymous Adam weop was absolutely a product of this Enlightenment in fact in his very high opinion of himself he was the evolution of it he was raised on enlightenment Philosophy from his young and age as five and started a secret society of intellectuals literally called the illuminated ones and somewhere between reading Emanuel k at 5 years old and creating the blueprint for global domination later in life Adam Began

researching The Occult esoteric accounts and obscure spiritual texts and when I first heard about that reading about Adam and how he locked him self away in his study in engl stat burrowing into writings on the occult it occurred to me that that is exactly what Victor Frankenstein did in exactly the same place englad Bavaria at a very similar time in history and that Spar my interest because Frankenstein is pretty much as perfect as books get as far as My top three goes it's that Dracula in 1984 in no particular order while an argument should be

made that Frankenstein is equal parts Romanticism as much as it is a product of the Enlightenment the fact of the matter is that it doesn't define Roman ISM like it does the enlightenment for me at least Frankenstein is the essential Enlightenment text even if it comes from this framework of romantic gothic literature it's a cautionary tale of Unchecked Science and a masterful patchwork of anxieties that Mark the end of the Enlightenment era Man's Reach outweighing his grasp and what it means to be human and to cut a long story short it's a metaphor for the

Illuminati to give the book its full title Mary Shell's Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus should give you some clue just how how closely and quietly obsessed with Notions of Enlightenment this text is as I mentioned Prometheus Is the poster child of the Enlightenment he brought the God's knowledge unto man and Shel saw fit to include him right there on the title or alternate title at least there's a little bit of behind the scenes humor going on there too while it wasn't unheard of for books to have an A followed by a secondary title there is

this Sly wink to the way in which the book was written which was as part of a writing Workshop or friendly contest at a lodge in Geneva frequented by Mary Shelly who wrote the book her husband Percy Lord Byron and the Lesser known John polidori now Byron and Percy Shell by this point are pretty much rock stars shell really hasn't written that much startlingly little in fact but he's already heralded by those in the know as the talent of a generation in his private life he married one 16-year-old girl and eloped with her before returning

to England and meeting a 16-year-old Mary now 5 years his Junior And eloping with her as his new bride despite being already married when Percy's first wife heard of his betral to Mary she drowned herself and this was naturally something that Mary struggled with a great deal now Shell's Fame is nowhere close to Byron's but it's rising quickly through Association Byron is suffering from scandal after Scandal owing money all over England Bing actresses and giving and receiving all manner of venial diseases from both male And female members of the extended royal family and he hasn't

even begun to Peak these guys are the new generation of Romantics the poets that believe in Freedom and individuality and the ideals of classical Antiquity over the rationalism and Order and Collective good promoted by Enlightenment thinking they're concerned with the natural world and the sublime and the innate goodness of man and at this point in their lives really they are full on celebrities now Why am I telling you all this well because it's important to establish the kind of circles these guys are moving in the sort of people and groups that would have been known

to them and it's safe to say they were part of the new Cutting Edge of culture and well known among their peers with their peers in current events well known to them so while away fleeing Scandal and on a European tour of sorts Percy Chelly and his wife Mary take an extended vacation at a lodge in Geneva currently rented by their friend Lord Byron who is fleeing detas and the increasing a of the British royal family and with him is his associate and position essentially full-time venial disease Checker John pidari and one night while they

stayed up during a storm Byron suggested they should play a game of sorts they would each write a horror story to try to un settled the others they would then read each story aloud and all decide on a winner they Took a few days to each work on their story before coming together to see the results L Byron told his story aloud and he called it very self- knowingly the fragments of a novel but later John padari would adapt it into a noela called The Vampire which would become the leading influence for Bram Stoker's Dracula

not entirely but essentially giving birth to the modern interpretations of the vampire myth Mary shell brought forth the only thing in The world that could possibly top that and essentially come complete Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus She's Not Just creating one of the most enjoing novels of all time one of the most iconic figures in horror of all time she's also essentially giving birth to the science fiction genre and arguably even zombies too if the legend is to be believed there was some small edits made to the manuscript by Percy after the fact but for

the most part the Work remained the same critics argue on how much input he actually had some arguing that he had no input Beyond lending his name to help get it published Mary Shelly was a woman after all and there were many ceilings left to breakthrough it was originally published anonymously and her name wouldn't actually appear on the cover until a second edition was printed 5 years later other critics argue that he actually helped far more and that his Fingerprints are visible in the writing at several points it doesn't really matter for the purpose of

this discussion what is an important takeaway from this is that firstly Percy Shelly was involved even just by being around Mary in the subject matter of the book because Percy shell was very much aware of white out and the Illuminati quite interested and animated by it at this point in his life in fact we know this primarily because by this point Adam Weiss out's notoriety had grown large enough that he was known throughout Europe despite living now in shame and Exile but also very directly as I'll get to in a moment in the decades following

his Exile weop had become infamous in his exploits he was disussed in hush tones in taverns and clandestine Whispers In salons throughout Europe he was an underground hero to a certain brand of intellectual favoring progression above all else and he was an Anti-hero to others banished by The Establishment while still managing to leave an indelible mark on thousands of writers academics artists and intellectuals in Germany and its neighboring countries exactly the circles that a decade or two later the shellies find themselves mixing in while we cannot say for certain exactly how many degrees of separation

there were between Weiss out the Illuminati and the shellies given their Collective range of Influence and the relatively close historical distance the answer is likely somewhere between some and almost none we can say in all likelihood that they would have heard of weissa just in terms of his General infy in Europe regardless of everything else that I'm about to show you because the dissolution of the Illuminati and Weiss Up's banishment from Bavaria aren't necessarily the end for the secret society now there are a great many different arguments as to who Goes where and who does

what a lot of them have since been disproved but one of the prevailing theories again widely regarded as conspiracy now but widely accepted at the time was that Weiss helps Illuminati had played a key role in instigating the French Revolution primarily through a group known as the Jacobin club or more commonly the Jacobins now put it very simply the French Revolution was instigated by a lot of very angry poor people that were Tired of living in a literal hell and some even angrier middle class people that were tired of living under the monarchy the Jacobin

were a French political Club made up of that middle class and they played a key role in the violent transition of power The Fallout from the French Revolution was enormous but with every other major power in Europe terrified it was about to happen to them and the primary reason for that was Illuminati hysteria you see a couple Of years following the storming of the bast steel a riter by the name of ab Austine baruell cited Adam Weiss out and the Illuminati as the real Puppet Masters of the French Revolution making the suggestion that the Jacobin

Club had found its Beginnings as a trickle down group of the Illuminati furthering its aspirations into other countries and even ascribing inat as the place where the Jacobin Club found its spiritual Beginnings the work by buuel quickly Sawed in popularity so much so that its critics had to take the conspiratorial text seriously in order to attempt arguing back against it Freemason Society all over Europe came out condemning it as fiction fearing what it would mean for them if it were thought to be fact but before long other freethinkers began adding to the topic as well

bringing their own accounts and evidence of Illuminati conspiracies and building on baru's work most notably Among them was natural philosopher John Roberson who in his text proofs of a conspiracy against all the religions and governments of Europe carried on in the secret meetings of the Freemasons Illuminati and reading societies again placed the majority of the blame for the violent revolution squarely at the feet of Adam Weiss out and the Illuminati and who again warned of it happening in other countries throughout Europe just as baru had the two writers in fact had Many similarities in their

arguments and conclusions and their book spawned an anti-enlightenment and anti-revolution discussion throughout Europe that was constructed on these thesis another influential text Alexandra dear's Joseph balamo is directly concerned with the Illuminati meeting in a ruined Castle to plot the overthrowing of the French monarchy now unlike the others this was a novel although clearly based on the swirling rumors about Illuminati Involvement in the French Revolution and so this too became wildly popular and at the very least an accepted part of the Mythos by a good portion of the public conservatives in Britain especially but again throughout

Europe took this as gospel primarily because it highlighted two groups they already envisioned as potential instigators for Rebellion namely women and the Irish one of the figures singled out as a possible female agitator by this was Mary wolston craft An enormous influential early figure in feminism who just so happened to be the mother of Mary shell Mary wolston craft died due to complications from giving birth to Mary shell in fact and it's pretty difficult to imagine a world where Mary shell isn't firmly aware and engaged by the Illuminati conspiracies not only currently gripping Europe but

that led to the direct accusation of her deceased mother a woman she carried immense guilt for in 1798 the Irish Rebellion occurred and this further convinced conservatives throughout Europe and the new world that groups were working in secret to overthrow them how convinced they actually were is Up For Debate but they certainly saw it as an opportunity to C the parts of Enlightenment progression they didn't like the move Beyond organized religion and Revolution against enforced structures of power that German and French philosophers promoted primarily Uh but also as a way of Leaning into the enlightenment

ideals that they did support that stemmed primarily from British philosophers now we have to be careful when we talk about what people in the past believed by the time Shel writes Frankenstein many people are aware of these theories as conspiracy and placing Direct blame on Adam Weiss out for the French Revolution is misguided at best given everything we know but truth is a funny thing and While all of this is widely accepted as conspiracy theory now there's also a great deal of likelihood that ideas members motivations did pass from group to group and area to

area generation to generation ideas are difficult to stop on as they get going and no matter the provable links between a very secret society with a large number of unnamed and influential members and a very widespread Revolution that occurred next door it doesn't really matter for the Purpose of this debate one way or another the links between those groups exist no matter how tacitly and Not only was Mary shell personally aware of them pretty much all of Europe was too and aware is perhaps even too soft a word for the shellies in fact we have

conclusive evidence that they were politically and philosophically engaging with these ideas in a public setting we know from extensive research on the writing of Frankenstein that while they Were at the lodge in Geneva they both read and wrote about Jean jaac rouso the so-called intellectual father of the French Revolution and we'll get back to him later on indeed they are described as studying the French Revolution and its surrounding authors personally and extensively not only that but another close friend of the shellies had just published a work titled the Memoirs of Prince Alexi heo which directly

discusses and expands on the so-called Illuminati conspiracy currently gripping Europe not only that but Percy Shelly was himself vocal in his support for Weiss House's motives namely to secure to Merit its just reward Wards to the weak support to the Wicked the fets they deserve and to man his dignity by freeing all men from the slavery imposed by Society governments The Sciences and false religion in fact Percy's obsession with these ideas didn't end there he wrote responses to and frequently read Aloud at dinner parties from John Bell's Memoirs illustrating the history of jacobinism the text

I discussed previously that kicked off the Illuminati hysteria throughout Europe the Curious Thing was that what constituted damning criticism on baru's part perc read with Wonder at what people were on the brink of achieving whether ironically or innocently Percy seemed to completely misunderstand baru's point and instead saw the text as A celebration of the revolutions to come the path to the revolution of utopian idealism that he had always fantasized about Percy an early adopter of vegetarianism had at first preached nonviolence in all forms speaking out regularly against the dangers of Revolution a few years prior

but by this point in his life he had begun to see exceptions to this rule such as the Irish rebellion and he changed stance on anarchical violence for the sake of Positive systemic change or put simply Revolution it's also worth mentioning that although it's never been proven that any of them were fully-fledged Lodge members both of the shellies had tacit links to Freemasonry and Byron even more so especially later on in his life it's likely given what we know that opposing philosophical ideas were likely the cause of them not joining these groups but they were

most certainly known to one another so first and Foremost I think hopefully in all that we have established that Mary Shelly and Percy shell the two people who have creative input on the text both absolutely know about Adam weissel the Illuminati and the grown conspiracies of Illuminati influence leading to potential and actual revolutions around Europe not only that but we can say for certain that their lives were closely intertwined with it they're Avid readers of the literature surrounding it they Discuss it in Social settings Mary's mother has been vilified in the House of Commons because

of it their friends are publishing manuscripts about it and so I hope by now that I've proven that the Illuminati and the surrounding conspiracies particularly the French Revolution actually an obsession of the Shell's desired or not for Percy they were exactly what he'd been waiting for his revolution had always been one of ideas and he finally found a set of Ideas that he could fully align himself with those of Weiss out those of Revolution and an end to the institutions that he viewed as tyrannical for the betterment of mankind and Mary's life had been equally

consumed perhaps even more so given the unhappiness she grown up with not only did this conspiracy of Revolution lead in part to the vilification of her mother but such ideals wereing major contributing factor to her strained Relationship with her father William Godwin Godwin was a divisive character equally obsessed with Revolution and the more extreme edge of Enlightenment ideas when Revolution began in France he wrote on it with optimistic praise and many of Mary's political leanings were inherited from her parents primarily her father but it's safe to say that Mary had reservations regarding them and the

human cost of the ideals that her father promoted whatever reservations Mary felt Towards Godwin were not shared by Percy as as far as Percy was concerned Godwin was royalty and he idolized him he shared his views on everything from free love to political control to the tyranny of religion views that were essentially taken to their logical conclusion in Weiss out's vision of the Illuminati this meant that whether she liked it or not these are the opinions that Mary was surrounded with from her youth growing up as Mary Godwin to her life as a young Woman

named Mary shell she really had no escape and this often led to very unhappy moments in her childhood and quiet resentment or reservation toward some of these ideas reservations that were compounded by the enormous violence that occurred during the French Revolution and reservations that she puts into words in Frankenstein and that's the second major thing that we need to establish not just that Mary was aware of all this and an active Participant in the surrounding discussion but also and this is essential that Mary was pulling on her contemporary experiences to write a contemporary Horror Story

she's on holiday in Geneva and in love with the scenery and subsequently Geneva is where she sets Victor's childhood she needs a location mark with with mystery and magic and medicine and chooses englad a location that by this point was steeped in gossip and unease surrounding the Recent banishment of the order of Illuminati she needed a main character as her mascot for the Perils of the Enlightenment and she Drew in part at least from Adam weal a figure almost certainly known to her shrouded in mystery pushing forward exactly the ideas that she sought to condemn

and maybe condemn is too strong a word here perhaps problematizes better she sought to show the conclusion of such dangerous experiments with Mankind's future the Cost of life and so on to be clear she wasn't necessarily against the enlightenment she was after all a product of it a ubiquitous participant within it but it's easy to see why she would choose to write it from the critical Gothic lens that Frankenstein uses it was a horror story after all it was meant to make you uneasy and from her standpoint unchecked science and revolutionary philosophy designed to Forever

change how we live were things That most definitely had their downsides so again Shel was writing her own experiences here her interest in the enlighten and dislike for some of its teachings went beyond Byron and Percy's romantic idealism this wasn't written as any kind of exclusive protest towards her father or Percy It Was Written from her own anxieties regarding the political and cultural climate in Europe and what was going to happen in its future and that true or not stemmed in Large part from concerns about what Adam Weiss had started in englad all those years

ago even the notion of galvanism of the reanimation of corpses through electric Shar was something both the Contemporary scientific community and the Shelly had a keen interest in at the time in fact in her forward to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein Mary discusses hearing Byron and Shelly having a conversation about it behind closed doors while they were staying at their Lodge in Geneva even the idea of grave robbing corpses for the purposes of these reanimation events just like it occurs in the text and The Wider Frankenstein Mythos this was something she was both interested in

and plucked straight from her travels before arriving in Geneva the shellies had tored down through the mountains of Southern Germany and the Ryan Valley not too far away from englad past a certain centuries old castle going by the name Of Frankenstein and during that period rumors abounded rumors the shellies were no doubt aware of as prevailing local gossip of a strange Alchemist called Johan Conrad Dipple a somewhat controversial figure rumored to have robbed Graves and experimented on corpses up at Frankenstein Castle not only that but legends also followed that there was at one point some

kind of monstrous human cannibal using the castle as a base of op operations Dipple Claimed to have found a way to extend his life through Alchemy suggesting he would live until at least 135 he unfortunately fell slightly short of that dying at 61 just under halfway to his prediction but he also claimed to be able to reanimate the dead and I quote here Dipple was convinced he could bring a body Back to Life by injecting it with a concoction of Blood and Bone often made from mammal and human corpses in Frankenstein the novel Victor uses

Animal bone to assist in the building of his creature so I'm sure some of you are saying oh [ __ ] well isn't all the inspiration we needed that's pretty much the plot of the book right there and you be right essentially the face level of the novel at least that's most of the moving Parts covered but that Legend is pretty thin on the ground I've just covered most of the details of it it's certainly not one of the finest pieces of literary fiction ever written like Frankenstein happens to be so while a lot of

the face elements of the story are adopted from one or two folktales Mary may have passed the actual meaning the underlying message what Mary wanted to say to write about was something far more complex all that really happened in the the Ryme Valley with Dipple and Castle Frankenstein was that she found a good framework to tell her real story in and for what it's worth she claimed to get a lot of those elements from a Nightmare certainly the vision of the reanimated and stitched together monster she describes it's almost like a night terror in quite

Vivid detail but again what's really important here is that it's yet more evidence for the pile that Mary was pulling from of her lived experiences to write the novel so if we accept that Percy and Mary are heavily engaged with contemporary theories regarding the extended influence of the Illuminati and it's also very clear that Mary is pulling from her contemporary experiences to create Frankenstein then it should not be too far-fetched that this is one of the experiences or topics that she pulls from so now that's established let's look at what's actually in the book that

relates to weop as clues for further confirmation and then what Mary Shell's ultimate meaning was here and why she chose to involve all of this so first up is the decision to set a large chunk of the Book in englad Bavaria now I've covered the base motivation behind this but let's quickly look in a little bit more detail because it's an important part of the puzzle so for the most part the settings locations even character names are set in places Mary has visited or at least brushed past we have the influence of Castle Frankenstein and

the brooding forests the beautiful Swiss Countryside of Geneva the academically driven childhood marked by tragedy and then we Have englad somewhere Mary had been close to but had never actually visited but somewhere that was singularly important to her because of what it represented a mysterious place that gave birth to dangerous ideas ideas that had impacted her life her family's life and countless lives of those around her perhaps in whisper even the birthplace of Revolution everywhere else everything else in the cor story that I've mentioned up until now had some direct Link to Mary's lived experience

even the idea of an alchemist reanimating the dead at a castle called Frankenstein everything except englad that was a decision necessitated by the meaning the subtextual everything hidden from the immediate view that she wanted to still in the work and that is why out of all this the best documented and peer-reviewed element is that Mary chose inl stat precisely because it was the birthplace of the order of illuminism And the home of Adam Weiss out Frankenstein creates his monster there precisely because that is where Weiss out created the Illuminati and if you're thinking well if

that's the case then Charlie Frankenstein is Weiss out and the monster is the Illuminati then well done that's a very handsome point you've just made but let's not get ahead of ourselves there are a couple more locations in the book that I deliberately have hav't mentioned yet That really bring this Theory into the realm of at least in my opinion the undeniable and we need to look at them in conjunction with what the Monster represents so for now let's stick with Engle stat because despite absolutely being present in the Text due to Weiss HP and

the Order of illuminism there's also several other factors adding meaning behind this decision I mentioned the mystery and dark brooding magic of the Southern German forests but it's Worth mentioning that this is something that long precluded WIS out's short reign of infamy like any brooding location with a long history it was no stranger to folk staries and Things That Go Bump in the night in fact the area and much of Germany is synonymous with the birth and evolution of fairy tales and the dark forests that so often frequented those stories but perhaps more relevant to

the Shell's the literary history of inlad also played a Role in the occultism and mystery the area seems steeped in I am speaking about Johan George F a German folk character slre person that was interested in alchemy and occultism who popped up around inle in the 1400s claiming to have achieved a great many wondrous things like leading the German Army to victory through magical intervention eventually he gained enough notoriety that the church accused him of being in League with the Devil leading to his Exile from inolab details around his death are conflicting but all seem

to concur that it was a violent end at the hands of some kind of spectacular alchemical substance whatever the case F's exploits and escapades quickly grew more Fantastical and Supernatural as gossip spread and eventually they were popularized by the Christopher Marlo play the tragical history of the life and death of Dr fers in which the titular character makes a Deal with a demon named mephistophilis or mephistophiles as we now know him this is why we refer to a deal with the devil as a fian bargain this play is still part of every medieval literature cgo

so two well educated Literati like the Shell's were undoubtedly well acquainted with it far more contemporary to the Shell though the German playright Johan wul gang Vang go wrote the play fa on on the same subject and it is likely they may have even seen it performed Whatever the case it's certain that fa was also a massive attributing factor to the myth and legends of dark magic that surrounded inat and inat was also home to a prominent University one made somewhat notorious by being the breeding ground for the Illuminati but it was also a relatively

well-known medical school and that was not only a key element required in the narrative but also at that time meant one of two things Grave robbing for medical Experimentation or rumors of grave robbing for medical experimentation Not only was it a perfect fit for the narrative but it was another element of The Uncanny and extremely popular Trope in Gothic literature essentially where something is an extra level of creepy or unsettling because of how it may ring true with actual anxieties in real life for example a waxwork doll is uncanny because it reminds you of the

blank unthinking human figure it's familiar And perverse at the same time in the case of Frankenstein grave robbing was a major anxiety for a long time but especially during this Enlightenment era a boom in underground autopsy for scientific advancement but here we see it taken to its most ghoulish conclusion as Shel uses those existing anxieties about grave robbing and odd experiments into reanimation as fuel for her grave robbing Matt scientist so that's the setting covered for now let's move on to Victor Frankenstein specifically Victor Frankenstein as potentially being analogous with Adam Weiss help now I

need to give a disclaimer here when we're analyzing film TV but literature and poetry especially it's important to remember that double triple quadruple meanings abound when we write motifs and metaphors are often simply not just one thing we put all of ourselves at once into it sometimes even without intention and so with good Writers tremendous writers like Mary shell there's a lot of ascribed meaning rolled up into an often very tight narrative and really what I mean by that is the main thing we can do wrong when analyzing is to say something is definitely one

thing it's okay to say Frankenstein is a metaphor of the Illuminati it is not okay to say Frankenstein is only a metaphor the Illuminati the difference is presuming the author can only mean or think one Thing at a time which in the case of Mary shell and Frankenstein is most certainly not accurate in fact she is absolutely masterful in how she weaves her anxieties together here into something that is undeniably new and at first impossible to decipher in all its layers of meaning as a quick example Frankenstein and the monster could represents a the enslaved

state of man under God in a world full of pain and bere of meaning it could also and likely Does in many ways represent Mary's guilt over being indirectly responsible for the deaths of two women Percy's first wife and Mary's mother Mary walsten craft and both of these things can be true but what we can't say is that one of them is definitely true and therefore the other can't be in short things can and inevitably do mean more than one thing so with that in mind I don't just want to say Victor Frankenstein is Adam

Weiss and that's that because to say Only that would be inaccurate instead I'm going to quickly whip through a bunch of other theories on Victor that are all almost definitely influencing or contributing factors to the character we see on that page but then I'm also going to point out a few places that they fall down and stop working as theories in a way that the wisal hypothesis doesn't seem to I'm not saying that they're not accurate what I'm saying is while they all contribute meaning perhaps the Adam Wisal and illuminism connection is the clearest best

fitting Central Key to the whole puzzle so first and foremost is is let's say how we might explain it to someone in their formative years or first years of school the most basic explanation we can offer Victor Frankenstein represents science and scientific advancement and this is actually supported in a very cool way in the text as Victor takes us through his formative years he relays the Progression he takes through different branches of science if we understand each year Victor describes as a century in real time then what he is exactly describing is the timeline of

scientific discovery in Europe if we look at Victor from when he is 13 to 16 he becomes an Ardent Enthusiast of the 13th through 16th century alchemical writings of Cornelius grippa albertus Magnus and paracelsus he becomes interested in the physical secrets of the world over Understanding the moral relations of things which quietly suggests towards the split that occurred in philosophy during this period of both moral philosophy and natural philosophy the latter really being the starting point of what we recognize today as the academic Sciences it's during this period he develops an interest in magical remedies

to the Mortal condition that drive him to create the monster and after a couple of years of that as he Approaches his 16th birthday Victor is overcome with a sudden lack of faith in his study representative of the skepticism movement in the 16th and 17th century following that he finds a temporary enthusiasm in mathematics and the mathematical philosophy of nature representing 17th and 18th century cartesianism and newtonianism elements like these are expertly hidden in the narrative but under deniable once you see the meaning woven into them and in a Lot of Senses Victor does generally

represent scientific Endeavor but nothing close to the direct analogy this passage suggests on a surface level this is Mary pointing out that Victor is a very learned young man familiar with different Trends and periods of scientific history but to the astute reader she's using that history to playfully align Victor's character with the root science has taken up until this point but if we try to extrapolate any Further the message would be that science in the late 18th and 19th century found sudden success in galvanism and a reversion to previous attempts at Alchemy it also doesn't

fit as soon as we have to explain what the Monster represent because there weren't any directly scientific experiments that led to some Grand loss of life that might be being referred to here it's a motif that's present at some points and at other points not but if we look at Those points where it does fall down for example the reversion to Alchemy following legitimate scientific study then Weiss helped absolutely fits the bill if we look at what the Monster means in relation to to WIS up well that's already pretty clear the order of illuminism at

least at first so if we take the more advanced explanation what you'd hope to see at college or university level is that Victor represents the enlightenment essentially Everything I covered at the start of the video and in this sense the monster would be the following escalation of violence and suspected our actual Revolution across Europe and in my view that's absolutely godamn right it just suffers a bit from ambiguity in my opinion it's much more accurate to say that Victor was representative of an amalgam of key figures and philosophy during the Enlightenment but primarily based on

one Adam Whit help of engl who Creates a monster that is at first benign in its home in engl but becomes increasingly more murderous as it moves into Europe morphing into ideas of violent revolution like we see in France I'm not saying this prevailing theory is wrong it just can and should be more accurate with the inclusion of Weiss out as I've just demonstrated because if we presume that Frankenstein is simply representative of the Enlightenment which in bras chokes he is there's still A lot of places the analogy falls down as mentioned we have Victor

reverting to Alchemy after completing his more traditional scientific studies this was enough to get you laughed out of any Learning Academy in Europe by this point but moreover the recalcitrance and sorrow that Victor shows for his creation the French Revolution sent shock waves through Europe but they didn't signal some great change in Consciousness when it came to the Rhetoric being spewed but from it every side of the philosophical debate used it as proof that their particular brand of Enlightenment was the single right cause for Humanity just as they had before and as becom a recurring

theme Adam Weiss up fits that bill he absolutely did feel sorrow and shame for the so-called monster he created his time in Exile was spent writing manuscripts on apologies for the Illuminati and what he would do differently his tone often reaches the Same levels of theatrical self-pity that we see in Victor really it's not evidence that the prevailing theory is wrong more that it's right it's just that there's obvious clear ground still not being trampled if we don't include weop and simply say Enlightenment thinking weop is the poster child B extreme Enlightenment thinking his views

are kind of the Zenith of that idealism and so to say weop is still saying the enlightenment because he embodies it but Simply saying the enlightenment removes weop from the equation and he is a key part of this puzzle and clearly a direct influence for the character not to mention without wise help the link to the monster being representative of blossoming Revolution is tenuous at best again it's not exactly inaccurate to say the French Revolution started because of the Enlightenment but that's also a pretty Broad and vague way of looking at it whereas Adam Weiss

hopt is directly Implicated and Europe at that time is currently swirling with anxieties and Mysteries surrounding the remnants of his order of illuminism and the conspiracy theories linking them to the Jacobins and the French Revolution it's just more accurate far Neer and it's firmly supported by the evidence another popular and working theory is that Percy was a major influence for Victor in fact we know he was influential on the character because Mary tells us as much In her writings on Frankenstein she discusses Percy's influence how she brought parts of him into the character the wild

most idealistic and dangerous parts of him that she'd seen once before in her father brilliant but at times misguided and hungry for revolution in human thinking the other side of him the loving and kind man that she at least thought she married all those parts of him she wrote into the side character clal loyal and friendly clal but the Troubled young man that demanded Excellence from the world that side of Percy she poured into Frankenstein but these at time extreme ideals that Percy had grown into while with him in some way throughout his life were

very much brought into focus by white out's ideologies so while Percy's personal darkness is obviously individual to him a lot of the more incend motivations he had obsessions similar to those that Mary wrote into Frankenstein well they Stem directly from Weiss Up's philosophies anyway like Victor Percy had learned the Sciences during his Youth and then made a reversion to Alchemy and more esoteric studies this is also true of weissel but there is a key distinction we need to make Victor and Adam pursue Alchemy and esotericism to find hidden but tangible and practical solutions to the

Mysteries and limits of the natural world this was not really the case for Shel who didn't Exactly spend time experimenting in a laboratory to him it was something different in a manuscript he wrote discussing it he Likens Alchemy to poetry describing it as a bridge of sorts between reason and Imagination he's interested in alchemy as an attempt to answer the questions that conventional science fails to but more from a spiritual angle of it representing those Notions and the lineage they take all the way back to Ancient mysticism not really in the practical sense that Victor

or Dipple or Weiss help were interested in and for Mary that spiritual relationship was likely an influencing Factor as to why she chose to feature Alchemy so prominently in the book because it represented a romantic link to the mysticism and unknown of the ancient world the corners of the world that still existed that science could not explain the enlightenment intent on Rationalism and Forward Thinking put a great deal of stock in looking to the future of building a better tomorrow but as far as the romantic were concerned we had more to learn by looking back

they were obsessed with the myths and lifestyle of classical Antiquity of Greece and Rome and they sought to move closer to that spiritually and philosophically closer to a time where man was perceived to be more in tune with nature and the elements this is Exactly what Victor does when seeking answers to his quest for dominion over life it's in part why Percy shell was fascinated with Alchemy and galvanism the idea that the answers to Life's greatest ills were hidden somewhere amongst the natural world previously known by those now thought to be fools and charlatans and

most importantly it's exactly aligned with Weiss's beliefs who like Percy Shelly and the romantics saw aners buried in the mysteries of the Past while he no doubt felt as though he shared a kinship with Prometheus Weiss out was equally smitten with dioes and the story of Islam another illumination Motif and Greek literature that represents a quest for Discovery another issue with the Frankenstein's Percy Shelly theory is again Frankenstein's deep regret over his creation he doesn't stick vly to his principles as Percy did or as Mary's father William Godwin did despite showing the same fervent levels

Of obsession nor is he the rugged genius and heartthrob that Percy was in fact as those who've read the novel will know Victor Frankenstein is a bit of a [ __ ] everything fatigues him or outright makes him faint despite finding Beauty and joy in nature he is entirely maligned by the world and his experiences within it he's not in love with it as Percy was Victor privileges the pursuit of science over his family and Percy did no such thing although Mary's father perhaps did Percy did absolutely privilege other women over his family but that's

another story most crucially though Victor regrets his decisions and sees the error of his ways and that very aptly described weissel who spent his final years writing apologies for and revised versions of the Illuminati there are many other aspects that don't align with Shelly such as Victor's tragic childhood that again absolutely do align with Weiss's Early life I think it's fair to say and indeed Mary did that Victor was influenced in Parts by Percy but I personally wouldn't go as far as saying Victor is an analogy for Percy whereas I am pretty much saying that

with Adam so there are probably infinite other theories on what Victor might represent but we've covered the main ones some others I've mentioned in passing but given that these are the theories that seem to fit best overall there's not Really much else we need to cover to me it seems pretty clear that while Frankenstein is absolutely a mishmash of influences both personal and public it's safe to say that if his character is a metaphor for anything or anyone it's Adam we but if that's too farfetched for you just Enlightenment era philosophy that led to Revolution

but as I've pointed out that doesn't fit quite as neatly nor does it cover quite as much before we move on there's a few more Clues from the text that link weab to Frankenstein first up is the initial reason I noticed an apparent link between Victor and weap the brilliant academic whose personal life is marred by tragedy burrowing into esoteric Research In Search of knowledge supposedly Beyond Man's Reach specifically the occultist and alchemist that Frankenstein makes use of first in his self-education and then later on with his experiments into reanimation Those being the 13th through

16th century alchemists Cornelius Agrippa albertus Magnus and paracelsus that I mentioned earlier all of whom were German now these texts were familiar to Percy ones his distant interest in alchemy had brought him to because they were relatively wellknown and for that reason Mary was probably aware of them as well and that's how we see them in the book I have tried to research at length any mention of what esoteric Texts Adam weissel may have been using in the hopes of finding another possible link there and there are some brief mentions two he definitely studied were

the cabala and the Mysteries of the seven sages of Memphis but these are more directly related to magic and spirituality in terms of alchemy we don't really have a bibliography so there is a very small leap of faith here but ultimately it is unlikely that Weiss op as well read on all things Potentially mystical as he was wasn't aware of these German Alchemists and philosophers that he was geographically and historically far closer to than the shellies these are pretty well-known works as far as alchemical texts go possibly the most famous examples we have out of

Germany but simply it is difficult ult to Envision a world where these weren't on Weiss House's reading list at some point probably quite early on in his research I want to take a Moment to point out how similar these men are in terms of voice tone and how they see the world also now this could literally go on for hours just comparing and contrasting quotes from Victor and Adam so I've just picked out a few key ones that kind of relate to their outlook on the world and their situation I'm not saying for certain any

of these are demonstrative of Shell's intent it's just interesting how closely aligned the two men are so first up is the quote From Victor the world was to me a secret which I desired to Divine which is really just the best summary sentence for Victor's obsession with the understanding and Mastery of the natural world which I touched on briefly with his lack of care for moral philosophy and his decision to pursue natural philosophy prior to creating the monster Victor's ultimate goal is to uncover the secrets of the natural world and the quote from weal and

all of Illumination Which human reason can give none is comparable to the discovery of what we are our nature so again pretty self-explanatory the same is exactly true Adam he sees discovery of the natural world and Mastery over the laws that govern it as the most important discoveries Humanity could achieve they essentially have the exact same Obsession next up is a little trickier to understand without context Victor's quote is unless I had been animated by An almost Supernatural enthusiasm my application to this study would have been irksome beautifully presented but the meaning is slightly hidden

given the older modes of language essentially Victor is saying here that the obsessive nature of his work would be tiring under normal circumstances but perhaps he was boed along in that work by something unseen and divine even simpler this may have been impossible if I didn't have helped from on high and to move to wise Help we have in another situation and in an active station in life I should have been keenly occupied and the founding of an order would never have come into my head and then from a different passage who would have thought

that I was to be the founder of a new religion now weap is again suggesting that there was some kind of spiritual drive here behind his work although he's being knowingly ironic given his open desire to end the tyranny of organized religion but beyond That men are using this notion of their ideas being influenced from on high to in some way negate blame on themselves to make themselves some sort of accessory to a higher thought or force that may have worked through them although in Weiss out's case it's highly unlikely it was a Christian understanding

of God but this idea they both created some pretty damaging ideas and try to in their arrogance use this as a way to try and offset Responsibility while claiming no matter how tongue and cheek to be in some way Divine is remarkably similar and is exactly in line with two men that would always choose self pity over guilt and recalcitrance moving on from that one we've got this pretty optimistic statement from Victor a new species would bless me as its creator and Source many happy and excellent Natures would owe their being to me no father

could claim the Gratitude of his child so Completely as I should deserve theirs that's grandio talk and again really misguided given how the actual relationship between Creator and new species plays out this is absolutely Shelly setting Victor up for a grand kind of fall and fall is absolutely meant in the Divine sense here as well the novel is obsessed with Paradise Lost um more importantly Victor is having visions of grandeur here about being that creative figure to a new race or Species of being now in Victor's more Fantastical case that's actually quite accurate the language

is deliberately tilted to him being a Creator or essentially God figure to a new sect of man and if we move over to wise out we have this pair of quotes I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati and from later on the human race will then become one family and the world will be the dwelling of rational men again we see pretty much The exact same thing Weiss out sees himself as the founder of a new family so again the father/ Creator figure and that family is essentially

the new race of rational or illuminated men he's also showing the same kind of huis that Victor demonstrates in the uh predicted success of his misguided efforts another place they cross over is their inherent desire for secrecy in their actions both Victor and the frame tale of Walton that bck ends the narrative are obsessed with The word secret and Secret in general really the book as a whole is it's mentioned frequently and is obviously a large concern of Victors given the illicit and grotesque nature of his work and equally obsessed if not more so is

Weiss help who wrote at length on the strengths of secrecy when it came to attaining power and influencing the minds of men again the illicit nature of his work and one last quote I want to draw your attention to here from Victor Just before we move on to the monster is his final words and that is yet why do I say this I have myself been blasted in these hopes yet another May succeed now Victor's hope at this point is that someone will bring an end to the reign of terror caused by the monster given

he is now dying and unable to pursue it any further we're going to look closer at what that ending means shortly but for now I just want to focus on the comparison between Victor and Adam just Like Victor Adam's later writings are quite self-questioning and let down he's seen what his monster has accomplished once let free into the world and it's far more violent than he could have imagined but in the end he finds solace in the Next Generation being able to succeed in Victor's case Walton presents the next generation of scientists perhaps able to

correct his mistakes in Weiss have's case and his revisions are essentially second drafts for the Illuminati that he never really intended to carry out in practice he more left them as plans for the future and for the trickling course of influence throughout Europe the explosion for which he may very well have provided the Tinder albeit indirectly they're extremely close in these parallels regretful old men whose faith in their own philosophy has been T from them now looking to the Next Generation to succeed where they have failed so just to sum that up from These comparisons

we got this shared image of a man with a tragic family background and childhood convinced of his own genius at the University in englad hellbent on secrecy in his work refusing to second guess his motivations through arrogance with an obsession for discovering all the secrets of the natural world and the supernatural beyond that the idea he's going to be some kind of Creator figure for some kind of new sect of mankind and as far As mistakes go dodging responsibility through this notion that his actions Were Somehow Guided by a higher power ending up a bitter

and regretful old man looking to the Next Generation to succeed where he has failed and that is honestly a pretty specific character type I can't say I know too many people like that in my personal life and of course I've CH picked quotes and similarities there rather than maybe focusing on trying to find differences That I could pull out but that's also essentially how you go about making an argument for stuff like this and if it fits it fits it's certainly not vague or overly Broad in any way it doesn't describe Percy it doesn't describe

Dipple nor can such a specific Outlook be easily or at all mapped on to another character in the text in character AR in character flaws Outlook ideology and outcome Victor and Adam share an awful lot of similarities let's move on from Victor and onto his monster now if we look at what the monster is traditionally seem to represent we have the generally accepted answer of the seeds of Revolution throughout Europe which just like Frankenstein representing Enlightenment ideals is essentially very close to our Weiss out Illuminati explanation just slightly less refined it's definitely accurate to say

the monster represents the sparking of Revolution across Europe but it's Proba more accurate to say the French Revolution as a direct product of the influence of the Illuminati and just as when we looked at Victor all of these broader elements of analysis tend to fall down at a certain point if we say the monster is simply Revolution through Europe then why englad a place whose only real linked to Revolution was the swirling Illuminati driven conspiracy surrounding the Inception of the Jacobin Club if it's simply the French Revolution then why is the monster not just bloodthirsty

from the get-go it's also worth noting that despite doing its eventual fair share of killing the monster spills no blood in englad just as The Illuminati's tenure there was extremely benign it's only as the monster Breaks Loose from its creator and begins making its way across Europe that it becomes violent perfectly in line with the Illuminati to Jacobin to French Revolution theories that were Abounding at the time it's also worth noting that the word illuminate in all its forms does not appear in the novel until the moment Victor sees the monster fully realized and ambulatory

in englad after which it appears several times further suggesting that this moment is represent resentative of Weiss's birthing of illuminism so maybe the best way of looking at what the Monster truly represents is the birth and benign starting point of the Illuminati in Englad but when the monster leaves and begins his violent Rampage across Europe it becomes directly representative of the French Revolution not simply the seeds of Revolution across Europe or the Illuminati hysteria that followed them but directly the French Revolution and even if you read the book that may sound like a pretty odd

claim at first so let's look at why critics all pretty much agree on this French Revolution Theory as well as the pattern I've just Laid out where the monster follows the rote of benign Illuminati inat innocence to this vengeful violence of the proletariat in Paris there are some pretty specific definite clues that this is exactly what's happening and now this comes first and foremost from the locations chosen for the novel that I haven't mentioned yet but also the victims of the monster and where and how they're dispatched so let's start by looking at locations now

I mentioned There's a frame tale around the main narrative the book starts and ends with a failed Rider come ambitious scientist Walton on a mission to nav navigate the Northwest Passage and find the Magnetic North Pole setting off from St Petersburg Russia they make their way towards the ice sheets when they catch a vision of a gigantic figure through the blizzard not long after they find an aged Victor Frankenstein a drift on an ice flow after being stranded while in Pursuit of the giant creature now this section out on the ice with Victor literally pursuing

his monster to the ends of the Earth is by far my favorite sequence in the book and something that almost never makes it into modern versions of the character it's here we first meet Victor right at the end of of his story he's on the verge of death not only from exposure on the ice but exhaustion and a broken mind and broken Spirit driven to Madness by his creation But this St Petersburg location is crucial because if englad was the spiritual birthplace of the French Revolution St Petersburg is where the French Revolution spiritually ended where

it went to die Napoleon had risen to power during the revolution winning campaign after campaign and constantly dancing a knife's edge to maintain his power he was a phenomenal gald that managed to raise one of the greatest fighting forces in history his so-called Grand Army which at its peak would number over 600,000 men conscripted at one time and over 2 million total conscripts and with it he seizes power and brings the revolution to its bloody conclusion but for Napoleon and all those that rallied behind him in France this was only the beginning he declared war

on many of the major Powers around him Britain Spain Russia and Austria with a good deal of confidence about his military superiority he saw much success In his campaigns in Europe but it would all come tumbling down down with his decision to March the Grand Army into Russia in his arrogance he envisioned being welcomed into St Petersburg as their new emperor lorded and cherished this would not be the case the French invasion of Russia is one of the most lethal operations in military history as the Grand Army moved into Russia it was met with Fierce

pockets of resistance losing several key battles but for the Most part the Russians continued to fall back allowing the French to take large amounts of ground the Russians knew the size of the French army they also knew that logistically it could not survive an extended campaign so far far away from home in such a brutal climate they allowed the French to keep spreading themselves thinner and thinner even letting Moscow go without a fight until eventually isolated and freezing with his men dropping like flies Napoleon had To give in and turn around he never made it

to St Petersburg it is estimated that of the 612,000 combatants who entered Russia only 112,000 returned to France while Napoleon would continue to fight off the British and Spanish armies with remarkable skill upon his return home ultimately his crippling defeat at the hands of the Russian Frontier ensured his defense was shortlived Napoleon may have finally lost at watero but the spiritual end the promises made by the French Revolution died out on that Russian Ice and that is where we find Walton where we find Victor and the monster he pursues at the end of their violent

Journey from inat to St Petersburg is the literal route from the beginnings of the Illuminati to the ends of the French Revolution and that is pretty clearcut but there's a couple more locations still featured in the novel that make it even more undeniable the first is the plamp in Geneva where The the monster kills Victor's younger brother William this reflects the site being home to 11 public political executions During the Revolution and beyond that however the site also hosted four more executions in the next summer that were widely condemned due to those involved being sentenced

to death with almost zero evidence of wrongdoing and this is absolutely designed to reflect the death of Justine Williams Nanny whom the monster frames for the killing of William Frankenstein doesn't speak out about the existence of the monster in fears of his own implication and this leads to Justine being unfairly tried and executed just as we saw during the French Revolution at PLO just as we see with ingat and St Petersburg the PLO was another location of great spiritual importance to the revolution so much so in fact that shortly after Frankenstein is released a statue

is cast in Paris in honor of rouso and delivered to the pl p Uh Russo is the guy I mentioned earlier that both shellies were fascinated with that had become known as the intellectual father of the Revolution and it's in Russo that we find the philosophy that Mary is really trying to get out with Frankenstein and I just want to point out here that in a lot of well-published works that link the monster to the revolution this statue of Russo is cited as a primary reason for Mary choosing the pl p in reality However this

does not make sense given that the statue's erection came a decade after the publication of Frankenstein there was in fact a small Obelisk there before that also honored Russo's contributions to the Revolution and it's this Obelisk that we know Mary was aware of because she wrote to her sister about visiting It 2 weeks before the contest at the lodge in Geneva there is no doubt that Mary's decision to base the story and both William and Justine's deaths Here exactly at the plan p where the executions took place were designed to be reflective of the locations

relevance to Russo and the revolution as a quick side note if you were to visit plal more recent times you will also see this statue of Frankenstein's monster right on the spot where he supposedly murders William so that's cherry and lastly in terms of location we have the setting of Island where the monster Springs up to murder Henry clurel after its initial Reign of terror on the European mainland and this is again widely agreed upon by critics to represent the Irish Rebellion that came soon after the French Revolution this is a very outof theeway decision

to move events to Ireland and really the Irish Rebellion offers the only explanation for this choice of location so to quickly sum up we have the creation of the monster illuminati in englad the wave of violence in Europe as the monster moves from benign to Vengeful mirroring the path of philosophy moving from the Illuminati and other parallel groups and into the French Revolution and the reign of terror the murdering Island sign find the Irish Rebellion there and St Petersburg has this spiritual place of ending where Victor finds himself at the very ends of his own

ambition trapped out on the ice dying as Napoleon's men had the spiritual end to the Revolution and to get closer to Mary's ultimate Meaning we need to see the two main things that all these killings have in common firstly there is a lot of indirect guilt on Victor's part he is responsible for the murders only ever indirectly he makes the monster and the monster kills people and this is as I've mentioned reflective in some ways of Mary's guilt over the death of her mother and the suicide of Percy's displaced first wife but also Weiss's suspected

links to the era of violence And paranoia that followed him more crucially than that though is that shell made certain that all of the people directly killed by the monster were innocent of any wrongdoing and it is here that we find the root to her meaning firstly the monster kills Victor's younger brother William then frames Justine Williams Danny for the murder cleril is killed in Ireland as the monster attempts to frame Victor for the crime following this as Victor and His childhood sweet heart are about to be married the monster kills her also shortly after

that Victor's father dies from essentially grief and old age following the tragic course of events he's been forced to enure all of the direct killings by the monster are aimed at the neck essentially the monster pressing on the victim's wipipe and Justine who is framed is killed by hanging this is of course supposed to bring to mind the guillotine driven Decapitations of the French Revolution and in Justine's case the unjust executions that occurred at the plan p none of these victim are guilty of anything other than their proximity to Victor because the monster's wrath is

entirely related to Shell's and more crucially Russo's philosophy that whenever power is taken it is the innocent that will suffer and that whatever system takes power will undoubtedly find roots to evil and Control of the innocent or as rouso puts it at its most simplest that all human beings are naturally good but Society has imposed its evil ways upon them the idea that social structures Force us to live in a manner that is unnatural and in a hierarchical form that can do nothing but push cruelty downwards now Shel was an Avid Reader of Russo but

that's not to say she blindly agreed with everything he proposed she was after all appalled with the senseless Killing during the French Revolution something that rouso had been a massive philosophical influence for but she still saw immutable truth in his basic philosophies that the lowest and most innocent of society would always suffer the worst from the hands of that society that good men would always bear the cost of society's hierarchical Power Balance and that good men who take power likely to be corrupted by it this whole novel with all its Myriad influences and Embellishments is

a protest to the fact that for all the talk of positive change Enlightenment and Revolution the main cost had still been the loss of innocent life and that despite all the violent deposition of those on top the majority of that cost had still been paid from the bottom up and it all started with Adam Weiss help his obsession to know the unknown and the creation of a monster that would far exceed his control and there is also the subject of What the Monster desires and if you haven't read the book then you're probably not anticipating

quite how verbose and articulate this monster is he reads Milton and laments his differences to Adam in the garden and sees similarities in the Creator figure that turns his back he's a pretty complex dude again something that almost never makes it into modern interpretations of the monster for some reason we have this barely verbal Brickman now so he's pretty open about what he wants and there's so much here that I'm not touching on because it's a very complex book death and Damnation and eternal salvation all the elements of Gothic horror and what it means to

be a man that the creature Works through through but if we were trying to sum up in as few words as possible what that monster wants then Liber egality fraternity may not be all that far from the reality the monster initially wants To be loved by his creator but he certainly has every desire to be a free man he certainly views himself as being cast out of Eden but that doesn't mean he doesn't have a strong sense and desire for his own Freedom so that's Liberty checked off once he realizes his place in the world

the Adam of a new species so monstrous even he is disgusted by self then he becomes increasingly concerned with his place next to the human race being accepted And equal to man and we see this play out as he spies on and tries to interact with the farming family so there's equality really Liberty and equality are his two main concerns both stemming from the unfair and uncaring treatment he receives from Victor and other humans but lastly comes fraternity which is exactly why the creature torments Victor and kills his friends he's demanding that Victor make him

a bride as he made the monster originally so that the moner Dom me know companionship and love he wants freedom to be treated as an equal and to be loved at least by his kin Liberty egality fraternity the mob motto of the French Revolution and now before we close out here there is a small side character I haven't mentioned so far that has some further relevance to the Illuminati Theory I'm referring to one of Victor's tutors the gentleman known as monsor Waldman this is a guy that catalyzes Victor's interest in alchemy And is described in

Fairly kind terms with an aspect expressive of the greatest benevolence some critics have suggested that Waldman is a standin for Weiss helped both convinced that Alchemy was a precursor to Natural Science they share a similar Visage and there's a certain degree of mirroring to their second names I'm not against this Theory really it's moru for the fire that wi out in the Illuminati are major influences on the text and he does pass His love of alchemy and esoteric teachings on to Victor as Percy had received them from weissel but if we imagine Victor as a

biographical account of Vice helped orbe it metaphorical then relative to that biography Waldman would be a well-meaning political cartoon about him there isn't a great deal of depth or exploration to his character and there aren't nearly as many parallels as I've laid out with Victor it could well be in fact it's likely That this influencing figure on Victor's life was influenced by weab but Victor is more of a direct metaphor for whop in my opinion and the illumination of knowledge that occurs in englad there are also a couple of other well-known figures like James Lind

and dve that critics suggest with the influence for Walman and these do seem like quite likely fits also so most best guesses see the character as an Amalgamated figure built from these influences and That I think is everything I hope I've convinced you and I absolutely encourage you to go read the text and do your own research on the matter I'll put a reading list in the description for anyone that's interested but I will say that over the course of putting this together I've become more and more convinced by the theory and really it's the

accepted readings plus an extra bit so that makes sense it fits the truth it fits the text and it's curious to me That it's not something that's been discussed more already let me know what you think down below love discussing this stuff in the comments with you guys if you're new here and you want to give me a subscribe and that would be amazing this is a weird kind of video for me the sort of literary conspiracy but funly enough it's actually the reason I made this channel which is another thing I want to say

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