Frankenstein is known as a terrifying monster. How far do you agree with this statement after reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?

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Frankenstein is known as a terrifying monster. How far do you agree with this statement after reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?

Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in 1818, she thought of Frankenstein after discussing theories about whether or not life could be discovered or whether scientists could make a human being, that night she is said to have had a waking nightmare. That nightmare became the beginning chapters of the novel Frankenstein. This story expresses Mary's deepest fears; what if her child was deformed? Could she still love it or would she wish it was dead? What if she can't love her own child? Is she capable of raising a healthy normal child? Would her child die? Would her child kill her during child birth? Mary was expressing her fears related to the death of her first child, her ability to nurture, and the fact that her mother died giving birth to her. All of this is expressed in Victor Frankenstein's complete failure in Parenting.

After studying Mary Shelley's Frankenstein My image of Frankenstein along with many others is very stereotypical. This idea of Frankenstein having a green body, cuts, bruises and bolts has being designed by comics