Throughout "Frankenstein," by Mary Shelley, Robert Walton, the captain of a ship bound for the North Pole, recounts to his sister in England the progress of his hazardous mission. Though successful early on, the voyage is soon thwarted by seas of impenetrable ice and other complications. Walton then...

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"I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel" (pg. 171) The monsters life could have turned out quite differently if Victor had accepted the challenge of directing, disciplining, and caring for the thing he created. ...

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Carl Sagan, the famous astronomer said "in order to bake an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." Implicit in this statement is the idea that, although we can bake an apple pie, to claim that we create it, we must first have created the molecules with which the pie is compose...

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