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There is no greater novel in the monster genre, and no more well known monster than Frankenstein. However, the monster of Frankenstein is more than the common lumbering moronic giant often represented. Frankenstein’s monster is in reality a thinking intelligent being who is tormented by a world in which he does not belong.
In this depiction Shelley draws upon the universal human themes of creation, the nature of existence, and the need for acceptance. For it is without this acceptance that the true monster, the violent nature of humanity, emerges.
Mary Shelley's seminal novel of the scientist whose creation becomes a monster is widely regarded as the first proper science-fiction novel. Frankenstein provided the inspiration for a whole genre of horror stories, and later, films.