In her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley simultaneously spins both a gripping horror story and an intense line of philosophical questioning - specifically, what it means to be human. After the titular character imbues his gargantuan experiment with life, he is overcome with the repulsiveness of his creature and flees, rejecting it as a demon. However, in the years between his next meeting with ... flees in terror, the creature recounts that, "his appearance [was] different from any I had ever seen before, and his flight somewhat surprised me." (Shelley 73) In saying the stranger's flight surp...

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