Critics revere Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as one of the literary classics. Not just a science fiction novel about a mad scientist and his creature, Shelley's Frankenstein is a commentary on society, on fundamental human truths, and on humanity, itself. .
To those unfamiliar with the story, the web page created by Felice Aull, Ph.D, provides an excellent synopsis of the essential elements of Shelley's genius. As well Georgetown University has posted a resource page for this interested in learning more about Frankenstein and its creator. .
I chose to analysis Frankenstein as the novel for my analysis because I studies the novel in depth in a first year English (English 200) course. I loved the novel, and found the questions it posed about humanity and the limits of science intriguing. What I was curios about, regards to Frankenstein and the Web, was how the novel changed (at least for me) based on its physical transformation from book to hypertext. .
Two main versions of the novel appear on the web, one in an etext form, and another in a hypertextual shape. However, neither version fulfilled my expectations of what a hypertext novel should take. Both versions were, in essence, the words transferred from the page to the computer screen. No links were provided to other pages within the story, and as a result the novel was not the multi-layered structure that I have come to expect from hypertext While I could find links about and to Shelley's creation from other web sites, the actual story itself was true to Shelley's original version - the only "links" within Frankenstein were the "links" that I created and saw in my mind. (For a more interactive, multi-sense version of Frankenstein, try Interplay's game version!) .
The version that I actually skimmed over to perform my analysis allowed me to begin reading from two main angles. Either I could begin at the Table of Contents and read one chapter at a time - read a chapter, back to the Table of Contents, read another chapter, back to the Table of contents.
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