FRANKENSTEIN

Frankenstein

Frankenstein

Introduction

Mary Shelley Wollstonecraft was a British Romantic novelist, poet, travel writer, and biographer whose most popular novel Frankenstein (1818) is credited with having pioneered the science fiction genre. In addition, the novel, as well as Shelley's oeuvre as a whole, is often read as a nightmare of procreation, contemplated as it is by fears of childbirth and death of family members, especially children. (Levine, 2009)

"Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" is about a scientist who has the goal to create life, examining the limits of ethics. The film shows what happen when a person is controlled by science and other technologies. The ...