Description This book shows how Mary Shelley created a monster.
Commemorating the two-hundredth anniversary of Frankenstein , it traces the origins and impact of her novel -- a classic of world literature, a masterpiece of horror, and a forerunner of science fiction.
Shelley conceived the archetype of the mad scientist who dares to flout the laws of nature.
She devised a conflicted creature, eloquent and repulsive, torn between good and evil.
In the movies he can be a brute.