Mary Shelly's novel, 'The Modern Prometheus' also known as 'Frankenstein', is about a man, Victor Frankenstein, who has the desire, some may say an obsession, to create a human creature, and bring it to life. It ends up with disastrous consequences. Frankenstein is a complex novel, written in 1818, when the author was challenged to write a horror story. In 1816, Shelly was in Geneva, Switzerland, on a trip with her husband, Percy Shelly, and his friend …
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…his features to show just how disgusting the monster really is; it shows that there are very few good points in comparison to bad ones. In conclusion, I think that Frankenstein is a book with great depth and meaning, and still intact with today's society. Chapter 5 is significant because of the events that occur in this chapter. This novel could teach people many things about society, and life, that has not changed since Shelly's time.