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…-existent in American culture besides a few. King Kong, Frankenstein, and Dracula are all successful because the monster made sense. If the audience can’t feel sorry or sympathy for an evil creature, the creature has not done its job. Today’s American…

…, all is out of joint; the baddies are not evil, but confused creatures of Frankenstein seeking like us all, extended life and answers for the pain and suffering caused by grief and heightened doses of emotion. Rachel, one of them also, complicates Deckard's…

…follow and was published in June 1897. Reviews on "Dracula" were mixed, and the book never yielded much money for Stoker. In a favorable review the "Daily Mail" compared it with "Frankenstein" and Poe’s "The Fall of the House of Usher." "The Bookman" found…

…: Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, and Thomas De Quincey. The Romantic fascination with mystery and the supernatural made such novels quite popular during the Romantic Age. One of the most successful was Frankenstein, written by Shelley's wife, Mary…

…that is shoved down their throats - the quintessential representation of affectation - pseudo-scholarship. In addition to lack of rigor in the curriculum, grades are oftentimes inflated, making academics doubly impossible - a monster, sort of like Frankenstein. Well…

…U R (Rossum's Universal Robots), by Czech writer, Karel Capek. Remember that in Mary Shelley's novel Dr Frankenstein was so terrified of his creation that he ran away, leaving the 'monster' to fend for himself, with nobody to care for him and teach him…

…some mechanical machines and complex bio-chemical drugs. This phase of science fiction includes, Mary Shelly's Frankenstein (1818), Joules Verne's Journey to the centre of the Earth (1864) and 2000 Leagues Under the Sea (1869). But after towards the end part…

…attain a fright of the characters. Movies like Jason, Frankenstein, or King Kong where the primary horror figure is an invincible force that never stops no matter what is too unbelievable for most viewers to grasp and fear. And on top of that these films…

…people say that the killers mimic gruesome characters in early horror movies such as Vampires, Wolfmen, and Frankenstein. An example of a vampire killer would be Peter Kurten, who quoted, "The chief satisfaction in killing was to catch the blood spurting from…

…actually states that the media made him the way he was, and actually created a serial killer. As Wayne Gayle, the reporter, begs for his life, Mickey says profoundly, “Killing you and what you represent makes a statement…Frankenstein killed Dr. Frankenstein…