Frankenstein is obsessed with the Illuminati
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- Опубліковано 6 кві 2022
- A deep dive on the links between Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the real Illuminati of Bavaria and it's founder Adam Weishaupt.
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Something a little bit unexpected but I hope you enjoy! Another video coming out in about 30...minutes? Because you beautiful people deserve it. Sorry I haven't uploaded in a while, there is a lot coming to make up for it.
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Thank you for making that video. I was able to learn some small details from it.
I would also want to point out, that you left out very significant information, although I do understand why, because off the censorship on the topic. Ingolstadt was at that time, the European center of Jesuit studies. However, the Jesuits had been expelled from the Catholic church (1773-1814), and had to find other institutions to exert their power. The founder of the Jesuits, Ignatius the Loyola was a member of the Alumbrados, which is a Spanish meaning for the latin term Illuminati. Enlightenment. The strategy of taking over the powers of Europe, is exactly what the Jesuits had been working on for 250 years back than already, so it is no surprise that such a leak would be found. Before the Jesuits where expelled by the pope, the had been expelled from the countries of Catholic rulers, also by the French monarchy, so they had every reason to meddle in politics, also of antipapist nature. They back than where not Catholic.
Bram Stoker's Dracula is as perfect as books get, really?
Dracula is the quintessential great idea, awful read book
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@@DemonetisedZone The sentences by Brahm Stoker are THICK. I read it while in the Dominican Republic and when I started looking over my shoulder into the mirror I had to put the book down..( Dracula does not reflect into mirrors). You have to be in a certain prepared state to read his Dracula!
I love that UA-cam provides a context link for the most factual, historically-accurate description of the illuminati I've ever heard from anyone ever 😂
This absolutely made my day lol, it was my first thought when I saw they'd put it on there too. They did it on my Marvel/War on Terror vid and I literally have a Master's degree in what I'm discussing there -_-
I read that article and while it seems mostly accurate they make some odd assertions that don't seem to fit the factual timeline presented. For instance, they state that Martin takes up the name in 1754 after Weishaupt's banishment but Weishaupt formed his organization in 1776.
Earlier in the article, they say the first record of the 'Alumbrados' was 1492. They say the girl named Maria was somekind of precursor/influence for the Alumbrados but say she was born in 1485. That would mean she was only seven years old in 1492 when the Alumbrado are first mentioned.
I think we should expect better from such an esteemed establishment as Encyclopedia Brittanica.
Edit:
So I reread it and Maria is described as potential "aluminado" and "pre-Alumbrado" so maybe being born in 1485 is less of an issue with being an "early leader" as she was 25 in 1510 when questioned by the church regarding her activities. Thwy don't really give a year for when the Alumbrados began. Maybe its not really known.
The bankers funded the Revolution
Ikr? so extensive 👍🏾🔥
Thank you for making this! I am especially grateful for the information about Frankenstein Castle and it's connection to the book.
When I was 6, my family visited Frankenstein Castle, which was much more dilapidated than it is today. Years later, back in the States, I told my 6th grade class about the story I'd heard that inspired Mary Shelley - that there was a real Doctor Frankenstein who was said to have killed a monster (this was pulled from my 6-year old memory, and was the only detail I had). The teacher explained that No, Shelly wrote it as part of a contest, as if that completely contradicted my statement. I tried to protest, saying I had been to Frankenstein's Castle. She immediately dismissed this as being a disney-esque touristy mock up, and I was shut down and silenced.
I now feel vindicated. The rest of the video was also fascinating, and I have subscribed
A shame on that teacher.
Gaslighting teacher...shameful
Frankenstein is my favorite book of all time. This was a fascinating trip into it. I love how deeply you delve into these topics. After your Hereditary video (which was the first of your content I'd seen) I was instantly hooked. So informative and interesting and you're very easy to listen to. The effort you put into this work is staggering and greatly appreciated.
Frankenstein and Moby Dick are what I consider to be perfect writing.
My favorite as well!! I’ll never forget reading it for the first time. Hello kindred spirit lol
The algorithm gifting my feed with your Hereditary video was a blessing, every upload on this channel has been an absolute banger. Not sure what I’m gonna do after I finish binging the backlog, I’ve been spoiled lol
The lack of attention and engagement this channel gets is devastating. I love these videos so much and I hope more people sub to you!!! Keep up the amazing work!
I just found his channel - so it’s working!! 💪🏼 good thing about UA-cam is it’s evergreen. Going to be binging his videos for a while 🍿👀
@@__rm307 amazing ! I’m so glad ! Hope you enjoy !
Only recently i discovered your channel through the green knight (brilliant btw) and now seeing the others I have to say that the way you communicate, explains and connect different midias is so cool makes me so excited to have a deeper dive in this works, keep it up the amazing job
Thank you so much Zeppeli! So pleased you've watched one video and decided to watch another, that's a really good feeling! Very glad to have you on board dude!
I loved this analysis. If the French Revolution was taught in schools like this everything would make more sense. In particular I missed the discussion of Napoleon’s Masonic ties, I might have missed it because I’m watching this while sick in bed but overall awesome!
You may also like Jay Dyer's channel then.
Also historically interesting - False History Exposed | Art Thompson
Feel better!
If they did more people would find that everything points back to Mystery Babylon, as the Bible teaches. They would never teach you that the freemasons who run the world worship Lucifer. 😂
OUTSTANDING! The amount of research and care that you put into your work is incredible! I just watched this again and was still totally engrossed. We are all blessed that you share your excellent knowledge with us. THANK YOU!!!! I appreciate you and your efforts very much, Susie
I've always had this suspicion, and whenever anything I research loops back round to the Promethean Fire of progress, there's Mary.
Joining in with curiosity and enthusiasm for the other conspiracy-in-literature idea you have for a future video!
I’m glad your Hereditary video did so well in view count! Fingers crossed for you the UA-cam algorithm god smiles on your channel soon. :)
Outstanding. Truly well organized and presented.
Thank you so much, so glad you enjoyed it!
This is absolutely awesome. I need more of this type of content in my life. Instant fan.
Thanks so much Joe, lots more on the way!
@@Novum_YTnice, also new here and interested for this kind of info and analysis. When is the next one coming out? Good luck and looking forward 👍
My first favorite horror movie seen as a child on an old black & white tv, then read as a novel a few years later as a tween, continues to be re-introduced to me decade after decade with newer, richer, more complex meaning! Damn! Ms. Shelley....what did you write?!?!!
This was ducking incredible. Very well done! I love how much you manage to follow a "yes, and" argument in relation to the accepted understanding. This is my first time watching you and if you haven't done it already, I'd love to see the follow up mentioned at the end.
really incredible video essay/documentary, you really convinced me that young frankenstein is the most faithful adaptation of shelley's magnum opus. hopefully the book you mention at the end for your "next video" is the chemical wedding of christian rosenkreutz which is a ponderous tome bordering on conspiratorial at many points.
really interested to see that followup video you'd mentioned at the end. This gives me a whole new perspective on one of my favorite literary works, thank you!
The reason why Frankenstein is my favorite book of all time is because not only of how much it *does* mean, but also how much it *can* mean. In a conventional sense, the monster can be taken as an allegorical stand in for [insert revolutionary scientific discovery here], but there's also a potentially rich sociopolitical reading as well. Although she grew up around radicals, I think Mary Shelley's worldview wound up being decidedly more skeptical of revolutions and movements. Frankenstein is at heart a very cynical book. And with a different perspective, the monster can be taken for a metaphor pertaining to any human endeavor of high hubris - including political movements. As the 20th century showed us, when people overstep their bounds and think they have it within their power (and their right) to attempt to remold the world to their wishes, disaster ensues. And so I would say that Mary Shelley's Frankenstein stands as one of, if not *the* most forward thinking and perennially relevant books ever written. This video did a fantastic job of elucidating much of the historical and sociopolitical influences which influenced it. :)
Quite the creative perspective and well argued. Looking forward to future works and ideas from you
Unless you're somebody like Umberto Eco, there's nothing left to say about this thesis that could add to it. While it is obvious from the first descriptions of Viktor's childhood that Agrippa and Paracelsus factor prominently in the zeitgeist of the book, the correlation of Napoleon with the end of the Enlightenment connected dots not previously strung together for me at the coordinates of St. Petersburg--specifically, Dostoevsky's city, where Romanticism is impossible and the pastels of hope themselves go to die if they are to rely upon the progress of the 'natural philosophy' alone.
This is no doubt what Dostoevsky himself saw in Mary Shelley, as his narrating characters in Crime and Punishment and Notes From the Underground more or less reach the same arc as Dr. Frankenstein; both in terms of guilt, and the nihilism that accompanies the futility of the vain ambition of conquering human nature-- particularly, but not exclusively one's own.
Agrippa 's last work renounced the occult as vanity entirely, and although Dostoevsky's murderer gets away with the crime, his very soul escapes him like Frankenstein's monster. As for the man of the Underground, he humiliates himself completely among the group of companions he sought to conquer socially, becoming the Napoleon of the status quo itself. His self-loathing is such that when the prostitute seeks him to relieve the both of them from the leprosy of isolation, he can only feel himself as a monster, perhaps as revolting as a man made of spare parts harvested from a graveyard.
Thus the goal of one such as Adam Weishaupt holds nothing but a St. Petersburg; a desolate soulless homunculus created from a Faustian vanity of a wish to play God--perhaps our own zeitgeist now, dependent upon the monster's OWN grasp of itself? What will the cyborg automaton of Fritz Lang's Metropolis do with us when its architects can no longer understand it, let alone control it? Whether reality is a metaphysical Matrix or not, the only knowledge that will count is whatever prevents us from doing something REALLY stupid...
Prometheus must play with fire--its what we are, but if Oppenheimer isn't enough of a signpost as to where this road leads, its just a question of how many Dr. Frankensteins there are between us and oblivion.
Mary Shelley's work is more timely than ever today...
Love this! I once wrote an essay on Frankenstein where I argued that it's metafiction about writing a horror novel, but your interpretation has got me hyped. I especially loved the parallels of Victor's progression and obsessions to the timeline of science and the reveal at the end (liberty, equality, fraternity). Great stuff!
I enjoy your content so much. It takes a deep look at artworks, never stating anything as fact that isn't, building a strong foundation of fact and then building well thought out theories on top. I'm thankful to have found your channel, really :D
You are quickly becoming my favorite channel, incredible content!!
Thank you so much dude! I'll absolutely take it!
This was fantastic! I watched the whole thing without interruption and that is saying a lot since it's on UA-cam.
Glad to see more videos from you, will watch them tonight
A lot more coming dude, thanks for sticking around!
really good video - i was surprised how much i learned about a time and place (and people) i already knew a fair bit about... i love it when something really gets me thinking and your video has hit the sweet spot!
This is a fascinating analysis! Thank you! Victor Frankenstein could translate as: The triumph of the Stone of truth. A masonic image and alchemical symbol. I also would add that the resurrection theme is probably linked to the Hiram Abiff story and the grip of the lion paw in the master mason initiation. (3rd degree)
Absolute insight that is quite compelling and genus. All your comparisons are right on. Bravo !
Funny enough... I had the revelation that Frankenstein was about the illuminati's search for eternal life through necromancy while watching Young Frankenstein... the moment Frankenstein realizes there is a library behind the wall... books behind the books.. is when he finds the true secrets. I believe Mel Brooks was very aware of what you are speaking of here when he directed that movie. Thanks for this video, its amazing.
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oh my god i got so excited when i saw this video pop up in my feed thank you so much for making this
Thankyou for watching!
An outstanding piece of literary & sociopolitical analysis.
I confess I'd never made the connections, bit you connected the dots & wove the thread masterfully.
Definitely worth my subscription & I look forward to listening to the rest of your work. 👍
Can’t we also see a link with the rabbinic notion of golem?
Yes we can....some people chose not to see it. A.I. is the same i think...🤩😉👌.
This research is absolutely fantastic! Good show!
Excellent presentation and channel!🙌 I remember an 80’s film “ Gothic” that loosely portrays the events at Lord Byrons and the strange story time efforts.
Fantastic synopsis. Thank you for connecting these dots.
I still am very amused by the fact that I learned about Lord Byron and the Villa Diodati from a german fantasy novel where Lord Byron turns out to be a Werewolf.
I have not read Frankenstein yet but agree with you that Dracula and 1984 are my two favorite books so far. Great video thanks for sharing.
Wow. Thanks for the research & narration!
Novum, you have opened my eyes to start to perceive cinema and literature as a mirror of their respective social issues at the time of writing, and not only has that helped me view the authors of such timeless pieces as contemporary geniuses, but have helped me grasp a tiny glimpse into their mindset as the works were being created. It has been earth-shattering just how important every single detail of the history behind the piece is actually reflected into the work, that us mere mortals have not noticed during our consumption of it.
To spare you all of the wordiness, you're the fucking best, and I've been parading your videos to my coworkers when I'm watching them on my lunch break. And no, the folks I've exposed your channel to didn't find it obnoxious, they in fact decided to watch Hereditary, and then The Green Knight. They were excited to watch them, and that's incredible.
You made me appreciate literature that I've enjoyed already, but with a much higher level of respect for every single aspect of these works of art.
With the absolutely incredible analysis you've given to Hereditary, I was sucked in to your perspective on culture, history and film theory, and I've been caught, diving into the proverbial rabbit hole, leading up to this video. I have not read or listened to Frankenstein, even though everybody clearly knows about it. But now, I am going to listen to the audiobook on the way to work, and try and keep your incredibly astute observations to heart as I listen.
You've made all of A24, and all of "high-brow media" (/s) so much more accessible, and I can now pretend I am savvy at cinema and literature, I cannot thank you enough
You can dive into my rabbit hole anytime you like bud! Thanks so much for this lovely message. I'm eternally grateful for the teachers that got through to me and got me excited about this stuff. One specifically taught me about Byron and some of that is present in this video, she described him as a 'rockstar' to me, and in a lot of ways that whole section is a condensing of the first ever lecture she gave me. Which in itself was a brutal lesson on taking notes during lectures disguised as a lecture on Byron. Her name is Helen Bullock, and she remains the most brilliant mind I've ever come into contact with. She was so skilled across multiple fields that a lesson on history wasn't just that, it was the art, the literature, the sociology, the everything pulled together, and I try to replicate some small piece of that in how I approach things.
So to hear that you're now taking those same lessons from me, and starting on your same journey, literally means the world to me, and I'm sure it would to the people who taught me too. I very much felt like I was pretending back then, and I only feel slightly less like that now. But it's a lot like learning a language, and with time you'll read it all fluently without thinking about it. Sounds like you're well on the way already!
Thanks so much again for the kind words dude, Midsommar vid coming soon!
Having loved Frankenstein, I got the complete works of Mary Shelley and was quite disappointed. I'm not expert, but I think Percy had a bigger hand in it than the experts believe. The prose in Frankenstein is so devastatingly good that I was dying for more, but nothing else she wrote ever came close.
Nice observation, yet 'one hit wonders,' seem to be common in many areas of our culture!
Behind (almost) every great, historical woman is a great man. Although pop-culture would like you to think otherwise. Sometimes it's too dangerous for a man to speak truth.
@@jerryshunk7152 A novel is not a hit. I've written several myself. I should have mentioned, that I also checked out Percy's writing as well. I'm convinced he had a hand in Franky.
@@that1guyFred Did you watch the video? If we're looking for a motivation, we can see the characters were right in the heart of the movements toppling governments and changing societies. It could have been intended at least in part as propaganda.
@@reinotsurugiWatched the entire video for aesthetic pleasure, I already knew everything it contained. Your comment confuses me, it sounds confrontational but ultimately supports what I wrote.
Frankensteins monster is a direct reference to historically verified tales of Rabbis in Inglestaad who through Kabbalistic practices are said to have created life sized 'gollums'. Clay vessels that where brought to animation by infusing the manaquin with the sorcerers personal familiar spirit. One particular Rabbi (and let's not forget Weishaupt was the son of a high ranking Rabbi) was regularly seen walking the streets of Bohemia with his gollum, a 7 foot tall living clay effigy/personal bodyguard.
Great video with lots to chew on. Beautiful illustrations by Bernie Wrightson, by the way.
I'm only a quarter of the way in and this is fantastic!
Love your heavy use of the berni wrightson illustrations. Masterworks
One great job.please keep this and other's coming.
What a fantastic documentary! Thank you!
FANTASTIC video. I will rewatch. thsnk YOU 👍🏾🙌🏽👑
Please deep dive into more classic fiction! Would be interesting if you were to discover something thats not popular knowlegde.... Perhaps do a monthly book deep dive!!! I wanna see some paralells with modern culture!!!!! Another sick insightment!!! You make everything UBER interesting!
Definitely will be some more literature stuff coming - and yeah one of them hopefully will be VERY conspiratorial in it's approach with some pretty bleak subject matter. Thanks so much for the praise and being so quick with everything I put out!
great video!
Excellent documentary. Adds meaning to the phrase 'art imitating life.'
How does this not have more likes? Fascinating!
Absolutely loved the video. Thanks for all the work and for sharing. You made me love Frankenstein a whole lot more than I already did.
That’s amazing to hear dude so glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for this video, I love it so much x
So glad you enjoyed it!
My God this video is a masterpiece. You'll make it to 1 million subs in no time bro
Thank you much dude, that means a lot. And I hope you're right, but it's taken me four years to get to 5k tho :p
@@Novum_YT I've been an avid youtube user for like 10 years now and ive seen it happen to so many channels like yours. I'm telling you man keep up the good content like this and all it'll take is 1 video (it helps if you make some videos on recent topics unfortunately) to hit the algorithm. Then after that being consitiant is fucking key like at minimum 1 video a week. I'm sure you know all this tho lol.
Very much enjoyed that, thank you for your hard work 🙏🙏🙏
Subscribed
...on listening to your plans for future videos.
Looking forward 👌
Extraordinarily great presentation 👍
Please never stop making videos bro you make crazy content some company should pick u up
great work!
Great video! 👍
I think the moment victor went to the orkney islands which mind you is a place of mythos as well. There is a lot when you think about how much this story evolved.
Thanks man! Great information 👍🏼
I always wondered why Frankenstein was said to be a foundational work in science-fiction. Relating it to enlightenment thinking puts it into the right context.
Significantly, in Ch 13, the creature learns language and ideas from:
“The book from which Felix instructed Safie was Volney’s Ruins of Empires."
“Every conversation of the cottagers now opened new wonders to me. While I listened to the instructions which Felix bestowed upon the Arabian, the strange system of human society was explained to me. I heard of the division of property, of immense wealth and squalid poverty, of rank, descent, and noble blood."
Thanks for this, at last a rationale for the deaths of William & Justine.
PS: The publication date: Les Ruines, or Meditations on Revolutions and Empires, 1792!
The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, 1798.
These two publications bracket the Frankenstein tragedy.
Thank you Pete, that’s incredibly kind and more crucially thank you so much for pointing out that link, I’d completely missed it and I’m currently scrabbling to find a copy of the book to go through it properly. Extremely interesting!
great content, thank you - a great new perspective on a fantastic book - one of my favourites.......
A wonderful, astounding book. I'm so glad you enjoyed!
I am floored by this research, thanks for your time and contribution to the topic. It feels you mane a great case. I will have to go back abd watch this again to catch all of the bits you include from other researchers of the text. I found I be ame distracted by what was pictured while attempting to carefully Process your words. I hadn't picked up Frankenstein since highschool Brit Lit ;) ...and yet I've studied The Renaissance and beginnings of The Enlightment much later as a hobby (and I don't mean by binging on YT docs). I guess I need to get me a copy of this again so I can investigate it myself line by line versus a teacher having 5 different students read passages from each chapter. Not much attention is paid in that scenario ;p
This was a very interesting topic and well done. And in a way, very timely. Monster as AI.
Well done!
Excellent, very in depth, and wonder presentation. Thank you
Thanks. A fascinating connection. This is the sort of thing that makes history come alive for me. tavi.
Mary Shelly never wrote like this before or since, which tells me that she didn't write Frankenstein, at least not by herself.
WOW what an amazing breakdown, fascinating thanks
Fascinating contextual connection
I can watch everything you can make. Wish u more success
Thank you so much!
Great stuff here!
I’m not finished watching yet, so it might be coming up… but I’m surprised you didn’t mention Ken Russell’s 1986 movie Gothic. The story writing contest (juiced up with a little absinthe) is depicted in it. Natasha Richardson plays Mary Shelley. Gabriel Byrne plays Lord Byron.
That was a lot of fun.
Amazing research. University lecture, engagingly presented.
Very interesting and enlightening.
Haven't watched the entire video yet, it is worth observing though that it's not entirely clear that the novel is a warning against enlightenment I mean that is why we are treated to a detailed section of the book from the Creature's POV, there is an ambiguity that suggests that the problem wasn't that Victor created life but that he abandoned the life that he created and showed it no responsibility. There's a sort of mirror plot to this in Mary Shelley's novel The Last Man (1826) where the protagonist Lionel Verney feels wronged and abandoned by the Windsor family and seeks to destroy Adrian it's chief heir out of revenge - a bit like the Creature and Frankenstein, but he soon becomes a devoted friend to Adrian instead because Adrian shows him kindness and friendship, and he (Verney) becomes an accepted member of society, something the Creature never got a chance to do.
This is great work. I’d certainly be interested to hear about the even-more-terrifying conspiracy.
Excellent Video
I don't blame Adam Weishaupt or revolutionary ideals for the Reign of Terror. I blame Robespierre.
Thank you. I'm late to the party, but I really enjoyed this 👍
So glad you did, thanks for checking it out!!
I really hope you put out the other video you mentioned at the end
This is pretty clear for anybody reading the book. Shelley's book here definitely questions the bourgeois heroism that her father (William Godwin) pushed forward.
Thank you for this polished and enlightening (should I say illuminating?) explanation on this little-known connection. I understand Dr. E. Michael Jones covers the same ground in 'Libido Dominandi,' although I haven't read it yet.
Incidentally, with the possible exception of 'Silas Marner,' I think 'Frankenstein' is the worst piece of classical literature I've ever consumed. The monster's narrative, and Frankenstein's reaction to it, is ridiculous. He learns to speak and read eloquent English (or German?) in a few months by spying on a schoolteacher, and when the doctor finds out, he isn't even phased. Hard to take the book seriously after that.
Appreciate the analysis. I am currently reading the book for a bookclub. I am about 80% into it and I figure I must have gotten an abridged version as the creature and Frankenstein have yet to dance together!
That was a fun listen
I’m so happy I came upon your channel! I’ve been trying to get into reading more works that are essential and was wonderful if if you have any recommendations?? Like just read books before you die kinda of thing
I'm so happy you did too! Amazing question, I absolutely can:
1.1984
2. Brave New World
3. Farenheit 451
Those three are, I think, essential for understanding the modern condition and the power structures that govern it. Reading any of them will likely change you forever, reading all three will start giving you superpowers. And that's only kind of a joke. No one has ever read 1984 and thought 'well I'm glad things aren't like this anymore'. Every person, no matter what culture they're living in, will begin a process of realization and comparisons to their current state and the current state of the world. People like to say 'oh that gets more relevant with time', but I don't think that's ever been true like it is with 1984. At first you think 'Wow, this Orwell chap had incredible foresight', by the end of the book you live with the grim understanding that it has always been this way. That he predicted nothing, he just was deftly accurate and ahead of his time at demonstrating how the structures of power that govern us truly operate.
For a happy(ish) break my two favourite love stories:
1. The Song of Achilles
2. Wuthering Heights
The song of Achilles really took me by surprise, I'm a huge fan/student of Ancient Greek history and mythology and a modern retelling of Troy where Achilles is gay sounded like nightmare fuel to me. Not only is it absolutely beautiful, I pretty much firmly accepted Madeline Miller's version of the character immediately, and I cried at the end. It's also a really good, 100x easier to read re-telling of Homer's Iliad. Wuthering Heights is something totally different but I'm guessing you're American and would greatly appreciate the dramatic backdrop of the British Moors (very close to where I'm from) and a very classicly English tragic romance, of sorts. The writing location and setting are very popular with female American tourists that love literature, so could be a great shout. If you want 'Gothic' without the 'Horror' then this is the book for you.
Books that changed how I looked at writing:
1. Blood Meridian
2. Frankenstein
3. Dracula
Blood Meridian really demonstrates that 'there are levels to this'. Every line is complete poetry to the point where I wonder if the author made a deal with the devil. It's a very, very dark book and not for the feint of heart. But if you want to see true skill, I can't think of anything greater. Frankenstein and Dracula for the same reason, they showed me that for a very long time people had been baking deep and complex meaning into things that weren't at first available in the text. Subtext essentially, very artistically making a point without saying it, because at the time saying it was just far too risque. They really opened my eyes to what it is that great authors do. And also Gothic Horror is a personal favourite of mine and they essentially perfected it, so..
Fantasy:
1. The Name of the Wind
2. The Wise Man's Fear
Books one and two of the 'Kingkiller Chronicles'. The Name of the Wind is my go to book recommendation. I have never had anyone read it and tell me anything other than it had immediately become one of their favourite books. I don't read fantasy normally, I gave it a try at someone else's recommendation and was blown away. I also love the audiobook for this but make sure you get the version with the kind of young sounding guy, he's very very good. The Wise Man's fear is pretty much just as good. It has moments where it's even better but doesn't have the same consistent perfection that NotW has. I honestly don't want to say anything about it, other than its beautiful and by the time you finish book two you can join the rest of the fanbase in the decade we've been waiting for book three!
Books I couldn't put down that didn't fit in the other categories and I'm not necessarily recommending for their literary value:
1. The Shining
2. Waking Giants by Sylvain Neuvel (The trilogy is there but suffers in quality as it goes on)
3. The Stand
The Shining and The Stand are Stephen King's best work imo, if you're looking for modern horror with pageturning prowess, both are great shouts. If you love them then maybe try Salem's Lot after. Waking Giants is all done in dialogue so if you're a fan of audiobooks it's a great one to check out for a more theatrical experience.
Hope that helps!
Great essay
lol i am just about to take frankenstein at uni soon, this is really good, i might mention this during classes
Absolutely! I hope you enjoy it dude, if you have a good tutor they’ll talk you through a lot of the broader history surrounding it. ‘Frankenstein as Mary Shelleys response to the French Revolution’ will be an easy essay to write and you can include a lot of what I’ve covered here! Thanks for commenting dude.
Read, studied and love "Frankenstein" in all forms. 👍❤ One of the most "iconic" figures in horror...as well as Bram Stone's "Dracula"👍❤
Well done
I want the next Literary horror conspiracy read!
Just read Frankenstein. Absolutely breathtakingly beautiful. It’s compelling me to read Paradise Lost. I see that as the most interesting core theme, as the monster abandoned by his creator, never given his Eve, is so heartbreaking and relatable.
I really enjoy listening to people’s perspective on every level of thought process. This life is fascinating.
Apparently the movies, especially the Karloff effort are light-years from the book in content !
My mother named my brother after his grandfather and named me Michelle but called me Shelley. So my brother and I were Byron and Shelley. 😊
I’d like to see Jack the Ripper and the Freemasons
I like how you immediately state what the parallel is between the stories THEN provide the explanation to make your case. None of that clickbait string along.
Very nice and thoughtful work
You are doing a vid on the other conspiracy theory you noted?
Good stuff! Im guessing you have not made the video mentioned at the end yet? Subscribing in hopes to see it, got my curiosity piqued, dont hold back GALVANIZE lol