Frankenstein is the powerful story of one scientist's desire to play god and reduce the miracles of the human body into its mechanical foundations, in the process learning what it means to be human and where the natural boundaries of man ends and the realm of god begins. ... It was the goal of Shelley that by mirroring Victor with Percy she could show the world the peril of overstepping your natural bounds and attempting to play god. ... In Earl Wasserman's work, "Shelley's Prometheus Unbound: A Critical Reading," written in 1965, Wasserman writes, "During the summer in which...

• Word Count: 3377
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"How can you expect to be rescued if you don't put first things first and act proper?" ... "We had a smashing time/I cut the pigs throat" Jack, although they needed food (Meat) became obsessed with the killing of living things. ... Victor, by creating a life with old body parts is playing "God" in a sense, at a time when religion was a key part in peoples live. ...

• Word Count: 2582
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School