Frankenstein-simple message,timley warning

About two years ago, I read Mary Shellys' Frankenstein, and it's impact has never left me. The book isn't simply about the dangers of creating as God, it also touches on other issues of a particularly current nature. The book's core question of the right to create logicaly branches out into the counterpart issue, the right to destroy. With the tragedy of Terri Schiavo so barbaricaly played out across the world,the status of abortion being questioned, and the battle over stem cell research raging these questions are of greater import than ever before. Who bestows the right to create life? What condition of existence warrants it's termination? Everyone who reads Frankenstein will certainly render their own conclusions. I highly reccomend this book!

 

Other than that I would add that it's pretty well written, not forgetting that the Romantics were alchemists with words. Good choice.

 

I agree. it is a wonderfully book which carries a huge message.

 

I was supposed to read this for universe, but abandoned it after a few pages. The message and ideas and intriguing, but I just didn't connect with the writing style.


It seemed to go off on wild/pointless tangents and the things that should IMO have been elaborated on were cast aside in favour of rambling on about trees or something.