Related to its title, the profoundness of science in the novel is implied by its sub-title --- "Modern Prometheus". ... In the novel, Frankenstein approaches this groundbreaking technology and seizes it, with the ambition -- can life subjectively surpass themselves by utilizing science? In the novel, Frankenstein is exploiting:"Whence, I often asked myself, did the principle of life proceed? ... " As he recalled at the last moment, he points out that he fears the destruction that this independent "monster" would do on the unprepared human society: this "mo...

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