![]() ![]() ![]() Created by its designer “in the mad pride of intellectuality”, the monster possesses full intelligence but owns a hideously loathsome form. The novel, somewhat tinged but scarcely marred by moral didacticism, tells of the artificial human being moulded from charnel fragments by Victor Frankenstein, a young Swiss medical student. Shelley’s Frankenstein was the only one of the rival narratives to be brought to an elaborate completion and criticism has failed to prove that the best parts are due to Shelley rather than to her. John William Polidori in an effort to prove supremacy in horror-making, Mrs. Composed in competition with her husband, Lord Byron, and Dr. ![]() His daughter, the wife of Shelley, was much more successful and her inimitable Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) is one of the horror-classics of all time. ![]()
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