... . When Victor Frankenstein steals a spark of being from nature to infuse into the lifeless thing lying before him, he creates a being who need not die, a creature who has the capacity to do great good or great evil. In the novel, the creature raised from the dead by Victor Frankenstein's stolen spark, after having gradually learned to distinguish between differing sensations and ideas, encounters ... 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 the creation of life...

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