The book Frankenstein is a lot like Gulliver's Travels when it comes to the themes of power. ... When it comes to the power in numbers theme a reader can see it when the many people from the near by town chase Frankenstein the monster back to the castle. The power in strength and size theme is seen when Frankenstein broke the chains that held him down to the table when he was brought to life and were he broke the steel cage that Frankenstein the scientist held him in. The theme of power of intelligence goes to Frankenstein the scientist for creating Frankenstein the monster out of part...

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Science fiction is a genre of literature that is very hard to define because it varies drastically in themes. Some of these themes can include the search for immortality, travel in strange lands, encounters with unfamiliar creatures, trips beyond normal reality, and a superhuman hero's based on real science. ... The first "real" science fiction novel is considered to be Mary Wollstonecraft's "Frankenstein" written in 1818. ... New themes were created and many of the authors that soon become famous, started out publishing stories in magazines such as "Galaxy" and "The Magazine of Fa...

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Frankenstein' (1910), Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'. These films are the first introducing the mad scientist, and we also see the emergence of the horror theme. ... The themes of survival, the use of the force' to guide the good characters and the defeat of evil all captivated audiences. The seventies closed with the phenomenal film Alien'. 1979.This film returned to the horror theme and again questioned humanities place in the universe. ... Films like ET'1982 and Back to the Future' both 1985 were really adaptations on the alien theme but their format was quick...

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