Presenting: Frankenstein

Eighth grade is hammering out a Forum Presentation on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein first published in 1818.

Suspend your disbelief! In the throes of the Scientific Revolution, Dr. Victor Frankenstein has stumbled upon the capacity to animate lifeless matter. He careens into a feverish zeal, heedless of morality or conventional wisdom, and cobbles together a larger-than-life creature, horrific in form.

Shelly’s missive, though over two hundred years from its original publication, still carries quite the critique of the Enlightenment mentality and what happens when man dabbles with playing God.