In her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley simultaneously spins both a gripping horror story and an intense line of philosophical questioning - specifically, what it means to be human. After the titular character imbues his gargantuan experiment with life, he is overcome with the repulsiveness of his creature and flees, rejecting it as a demon. ... " (Shelley 73) In saying the stranger's flight surprised him, the creature demonstrates he had not yet realized what he was, nor what that made him in relation to other people. ... " (Shelley 104) When confronted with opposition in seeki...

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