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Frankenstein  

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  • On June 16, 1816, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley created one of the enduring myths of modern civilization: the narrative of the scientist who single-handedly creates a new species, a humanoid form that need not die. In her novel Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1818), Victor Frankenstein robs both cemeteries and slaughterhouses in order to suture together a creature composed of dead animal and human body parts, a creature he then animates with the “spark of life.” In doing so, he claims he has renewed life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption. [Source: Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience; Frankenstein]

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