Victor Frankenstein is an insane, curious man, driven by ambition and scientific curiosity. ... Victor is also distant with the matter of how one might correspond with or even raise the dead. ... Secretly, like an alchemist, constructs his man. ... Frankenstein's exertion literally sickens the man who was once called Victor. ... While walking in town, Victor sees his dear friend Henry Clerval alight from a carriage. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In doing so, Zeus granted him pardon and assigned him the task of creating man. Prometheus shaped and molded man from the mud beneath his feet and the Goddess Athena breathed life into his clay creations. ... In seeing this, Prometheus so loved mankind that he stole fire from the Gods and gave it to man so that their struggles were less. ... This man answers to the name of Frankenstein. ... Although Victor has provided his creation with human-like qualities and features because he was not conceived but created, the monster will never appropriately convey human emotion henceforth mimicking one ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In some cases it was a fear of strange sounds that are caused in the dead of the night, or exaggerated visions of disgusting bugs creatures already found here on Earth. ... But is seems that much of the mad science work that is brought to life in novels and on the movie screen has to do with mans inability to cope with women's ability to create life. ... Trish climbs to the second floor; the third floor; and finally she negotiates the narrow, cobwebby steps leading to the attic room where a young boy has been murdered in particularly nasty fashion some eighty years before The audience s...

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• Grade Level: High School