Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is an epistolary and psychological novel, rightfully considered a milestone in literature.
Victor Frankenstein, dedicated to the study of natural philosophy, gives life to a creature with monstrous human features. However, the experiment does not go as Frankenstein had imagined and, refusing his own creation, the doctor leaves him free and lonely wandering around the world. The aspiration to the absolute, the desire to affirm oneself and to "create", becoming like God, are the premises on which a story of horror, tenderness, romance, and drama is inserted. The eternal struggle between creature and creator, which reaches the atrocious climax of the destruction of both.
Mary Shelley wants to indicate in the figure of the monster, that she becomes violent only when not accepted, that society corrupts human beings. The novel "Frankenstein" thus attacks the immense pride of the human being, who becomes a victim of his own ambition and transforms himself into a monster.
