Mary
Shelley
The
first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley's name
appears on the second edition, published in France in 1823. In the novel, the
monster is identified via words such as "creature",
"monster", "fiend", "wretch", "vile
insect", "daemon", "being", and "it”. Speaking to
Victor Frankenstein, the monster refers to himself as "the Adam of your
labors", and elsewhere as someone who "would have" been "your
Adam", but is instead "your fallen angel."
Frankenstein is infused with
some elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic Movement and is also
considered to be one of the earliest examples of science fiction. it should be
considered the first true science fiction story, because unlike in previous
stories with fantastical elements resembling those of later science fiction,
the central character "makes a deliberate decision" and "turns
to modern experiments in the laboratory" to achieve fantastic results. It
has had a considerable influence across literature and popular culture and
spawned a complete genre of horror stories, films, and plays.
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