This classic gothic novel was first con-ceived in a storytelling contest between Lord Byron ,Percy Bysshe Shelley ,and eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley,who imagined what might happen if a scientist created life witout considreing theconsequences .By stitching together body parts from various corpses, Victor Frankenstein assenbles a “monster”that he brings to life withelectuicity.The result is so horrific that he flees his home in terror,a bandoning the monster to survive on its own in an uncaring and hostile world.
As Society enters the twenty-first century,with opportunities for human cloning within our reach,the questions raised bythis time-less novel seem more pertinent than ever:What are the consequences of creating artifi-cial life?What are scientists'responsiblities toward their work?And what happens if they go too far?In Frankenstein,Mary Shelley offers harrowing answers tothese questions-and a chilling tale that has endured for more than a century.
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley(1797-1851) Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was the dangher of two radical English thinkers-philosopher Willian Godwin and the feminist educator Mary Wollstonecraft.Her mother died a few days after giving birth.
Mary received a challenging education usually reserved for men at that time.At the age of sixteen,she ran away to the Continent with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley,who was already married.soon after learning of his wife's subsequent suicide,Mary and Percy were married in 1815.
Mary Shelley's masterpiece,Frankenstein,or The Modern Prometheus,was published in 1881,when she was twenty-one.Although she contihnused to write for many years,Shelley never repeated the tremendous success of this first novel.She died in 1851. |
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