Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
Published in 1818, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is usually called the first great work of science fiction. Mary Shelley was only 18 when she wrote it, at the meeting point of dark Romanticism and the scientific arguments of her time.
Victor Frankenstein and his nameless being are more than gothic horror figures. They raise a lasting question: what becomes of a mind that is manufactured and then abandoned? The novel weighs The creator's responsibility: you cannot make a life without answering for what follows.
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- 2The laboratory by Lake Geneva: an apocalyptic birth
- 3Victor Frankenstein, or scientific hubris
- 4The creature wakes: a mind with no name
- 5A modern myth and its universal afterlife
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