In Mary Shelly's novel, Frankenstein, both Victor and the monster he creates have personalities that tell an enormous amount about their parts in the story, and the story itself. Victor Frankenstein is a man who is constantly searching for meaning in his life. ... The monster which Frankenstein creates is essentially looking for something also, but it's does not deal with knowledge or life where life has vanished. ...

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In her novel "Frankenstein," Mary Shelley asks her audience to consider the limits to which we can expand the category of human nature, and if her creature might be best understood as "human". ... Victor Frankenstein manages to create his own humanoid creation vastly superior to the average man, and throughout the novel, struggles on whether or not to identify the creature as human, or keep his original thoughts of it being a regretful disgrace to the world, due to the demon-like actions that the creature commits. ... As Diana Reese states in her article, "A Troubled Legacy: Mar...

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According to Spooner, Frankenstein acts as an archetypal human monster. "From plastination to plastic surgery, cyborgs to genetically modified foods, Frankenstein provides a readymade narrative" (Spooner, 2006). Frankenstein provides us with a metaphor for articulating the relationship we have between technology advances and nature. ... Croke makes connection between our contemporary culture of self-mutilation or 'improving' to that of Frankenstein's creator. ... Geek love is full of Frankenstein type characters, different people seeking to create monsters for all sor...

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