Mary Shelley Brings Frankenstein to Life
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The Snowstorm of the Trees
The main character is Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant young man who gets attracted to the occult arts and sciences. He realizes no one has ever created life and that's what he wants to do. And so we have these amazing descriptions of the journey in the mountains through the snowstorm of the trees. Never was a scene more awfully desolate.
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