Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus

"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."The young scientist Victor Frankenstein experiments with alchemy to fulfil his greatest ambition: to create life.

Once he succeeds and his creature takes its first breath, he realises he has made a monster and abandons it.

The creature, shunned by the world and filled with rage, decides to follow its master.

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