Geoffrey Giuliano And The Icon Players
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Victor Frankenstein, inspired by the dreams of ancient alchemists and empowered by modern science, creates a humanoid. It wanders alone into a hostile world, where fear of its size and ugliness subjects it to violence and ostracism, which in time it learns to blame upon its maker. As compensation for its suffering, it demands that he create a companion with whom to share its outcast life. Moved by the creature's account of its sufferings, the scientist...
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"Beware, for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."
Mary Shelley was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus in 1818, which is considered an early example of science fiction. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet, and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother the philosopher and feminist activist Mary Wollstonecraft.
Shelley's...