... , after having thrust his hand into the live embers, is intense pain. His judgment, "How strange, I thought, that the same cause should produce such opposite effects!" (Frankenstein 99). According to Johanna Smith's work, "Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism: Frankenstein," published in 1992, Smith states, "The use of fire focuses the moral dilemma of the novel: was the cause that Frankenstein served ... ...

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