On Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"
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Frankenstein
The story of Frankenstein is a kind of I don't know the right term but it's human centric that you could read it as nothing else really matters except human comfort even when a species demonstrates that it has dignity in the form of reflection and story and like experience. Victor's decision not to make the female creature is a decision that he undertakes in the name of humanity. To me one of the great ironies of Frankenstein is it's it's a written work of great complexity and philosophy and nuance and yet in the popular imagination all we can think of is this big lumbering green monster.
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