Boris Karloff as the monster (1931)
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Frankenstein is widely studied for coursework and is a set text at A2 in AQA B Gothic option
From our contemporary perspective, it seems obvious that Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein is about the dangers of scientific experimentation. Each and every time something is cloned, or some human-animal hybrid posited, the media screams ‘Frankenstein science!’. However, science is not necessarily the main focus of the novel that lends the journalists their easy headlines.
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