... are universal and continue to cause controversy. The question as to whether or not the wretch's behavior is justified is one such moral dilemma that haunts the readers of this gothic tale. Victor Frankenstein, a seeker of distinction, is synonymous with his misuse of science that creates a creature for which he provides no direction. It is almost a cautionary tale of the inevitable ... creature he gave life to, he abandons it leaving the creature to face an unaccepting world on his own. "All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated whom am miserable beyond all living things." (...

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