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Mary Shelley gave birth to Frankenstein's creature, and Adolf Hitler to Nazism, both of which are monstrosities (although it could be argued that the creature was more human than Nazism).
 
No. As much as I share your point of view, calling Nazism a monstrosity is arguably subjective. I am looking for a plainly objective observation here.

Apart from that, it can also be argued that Hitler gave birth to Nazism. Discuss this point and you might get closer to the answer of this question, however.

But you're right about the lady being Mary Shelley.
 
Both Shelly and Hitler were strict vegetarians; they both fancied themselves artists; they both had odd relationships with their fathers.
 
[!--QuoteBegin-IronDuke+Aug 6 2005, 08:41 PM--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(IronDuke @ Aug 6 2005, 08:41 PM)[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]Both Shelly and Hitler were strict vegetarians...
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I don't think this can be called objective, since Hitler's vegetarianism may only have been a propaganda myth.
 
You're totally on the wrong track.

A simple hint: The similarity is not between the two personalities, but between something they made.
 
Yes!

Now, what do these two books have in common?

Hint: It's not in the content.
 
One was written about a monster, and the other one written by a monster! [!--emo&:P--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/tongue.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'tongue.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
 
Nice try [!--emo&:P--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/tongue.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'tongue.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
 
[!--QuoteBegin-Perun+Aug 7 2005, 09:14 AM--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(Perun @ Aug 7 2005, 09:14 AM)[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]You're totally on the wrong track.

A simple hint: The similarity is not between the two personalities, but between something they made.
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well, technically I am right dude. Vegetarianism IS something they both practiced. Might not be what you had in mind, but it fits your question [!--emo&:lol:--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/lol[1].gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'lol[1].gif\' /][!--endemo--]
 
Yeah, but they didn't "make" Vegetarianism [!--emo&:P--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/tongue.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'tongue.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
 
They both wrote their books after a drunken dinner with their friends? [!--emo&:D--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/biggrin.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'biggrin.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
 
Nope.

Who of you has read "Mein Kampf"? Who has read "Frankenstein"?
 
[!--QuoteBegin-Perun+Aug 8 2005, 09:17 AM--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(Perun @ Aug 8 2005, 09:17 AM)[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]Who of you has read "Mein Kampf"? Who has read "Frankenstein"?
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Read? You said it was not the content.

EDIT: Hm, unless...
 
Just answer the question [!--emo&;)--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/wink.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'wink.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
 
Ok, personally I haven't read either book (like most people peharps?).

EDIT: "Sales of Mein Kampf earned Hitler millions; however, many of those who purchased it barely read it, and many bought it simply to show their allegiance to Hitler."
 
(But I read Ulysses [!--emo&^_^--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/happy.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'happy.gif\' /][!--endemo--])
 
CHARLOTTE!!!!!!!

You did it once again (well, halfway at least)!

"Mein Kampf" and "Frankenstein" are two of the worlds best-known and most-cited books, yet hardly anyone has actually read them.
In the case of "Frankenstein", this is because of the reputedly long and boring passages of Christian philosophy (as I haven't read it, I can only say what I read about it).
"Mein Kampf" is virtually unreadable because of the lack of grammar structure or logic. I tried to read this book and failed; I attended a reading of it where an actor was reading passages and commenting them.

BTW, I also failed with "Ulysses" so far [!--emo&:P--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/tongue.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'tongue.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
 
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