Compare Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN and William Golding's LORD OF THE FLIES Looking at these books in detail it is obvious that there are many comparisons that can be made between Frankenstein and Lord of the Flies, despite the fact that they were written over a century apart. ... Frankenstein creates a "monster" so to speak. ... Take the "main" ones for instance, Jack and Frankenstein. ... The "Beast" in LOTF and the "Monster" in Frankenstein also show many comparisons. ... Willie most resembles Simon in Frankenstein. ...

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However, writers and artists were not bound by the limits of science in exploring extra-human intelligence, and the Jewish myth of the Golem, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, along with that movie and other old ones gave us new ideas for other AI movies, but the point being it gave us new - and troubling - versions of the manufactured humanoid.3 Between these engineers and authors, the world's philosophers were seeking to encode the laws of human thought into complex, logical systems. ...

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