Green face. Bolts in the neck. Lumbering walk. Says, “Grr! Arrgh!” all the time. No wonder that Frankenstein monsters did not take pop culture by storm in the way that vampires did. While there are umpteen million stories about a heroine who must choose between a vampire or a werewolf, you’ll never see one where she has to choose between a vampire or a Frankenstein monster.
Still, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is an epic tale of a) man’s desire to cheat death b) man’s awareness of his own mortality c) man’s futile attempts to control nature through science and well, if you learned any other lessons from reading it, feel free to post them below.
Published in 1818, Mary Shelley’s copyright over this work isn’t coming back to life, even if you strap it to a table and wait for a lightning bolt to zap it. Thank you Mary for writing a work that has withstood the test of time.
And thank you Project Gutenberg for preserving it:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41445
“How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.”
– Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
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