Frankenstein and The Invention of Morel

The reading excerpts this week from Frankenstein and The Invention of Morel was an enjoyable read. I found that in both of the stories, Victor and the main character in The Invention of Morel seemed to share common traits. It seems as though both of them are paranoid by the way in which their lives have come to be. Victor is in this never ending search to stop the beast he had created and swears to never stop until one of them is no longer living. The protagonist in the book The Invention of Morel, on the other hand, is a fugitive who has fled to a deserted island to hide from his persecutors in which he constantly lives in the fear that they will find him. Also, both of these characters doubt their own creations. For example, Victor at the site of the hideous monster that he created fled from it and the protagonist in The Invention of Morel demoralized himself and said that the garden he created for Faustine was pointless even after the hard work he had put into making it. Unrelated to the points that I have just brought up, but I was wondering how, through the years, has the monster created by Victor Frankenstein been mistakenly given the name “Frankenstein” or is that not a mistake?