MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN (1994) I busied myself to think of a story which would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature and awaken thrilling horror; one to make the reader dread to look around, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart. - Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein plays with the idea of nature coming to life; the one thing humans never thought could and would ever happen, creating lifeforms from the dead. The protagonist, Victor Frankenstein has become a curious doctor who gets engulfed in his studies. He is attempting to finish studies that were never completed before, and once he finishes the final procedure he realizes his experiments have created this monster. Victor is shocked with horror of his creation and thus renounces his experiments, leaving the monster to live on his own in the wild. Victor Frankenstein has lost his sense of reality, and to himself has become the villain.
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