Mary ShelleyFrankensteinThe modern Prometheus
Creation and responsibility
Knowledge creates obligations that achievement alone cannot satisfy.
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Lives shaped by creation and responsibility
Literary protagonist
Victor Frankenstein
FrankensteinA young scientist who creates life and refuses the responsibility that follows.
Literary protagonist
The Creature
FrankensteinVictor’s eloquent creation, driven toward violence by abandonment and isolation.
Literary character
Robert Walton
FrankensteinAn Arctic explorer whose letters frame Victor’s warning and mirror his ambition.