Mary Shelly's novel, 'The Modern Prometheus' also known as 'Frankenstein', is about a man, Victor Frankenstein, who has the desire, some may say an obsession, to create a human creature, and bring it to life. It ends up with disastrous consequences. Frankenstein is a complex novel, written in 1818, when the author was challenged to write a horror story. In 1816, Shelly was in Geneva, Switzerland, on a trip with her husband, Percy Shelly, and his friend …showed first 75 words of 873 total…

…showed last 75 words of 873 total…his features to show just how disgusting the monster really is; it shows that there are very few good points in comparison to bad ones. In conclusion, I think that Frankenstein is a book with great depth and meaning, and still intact with today's society. Chapter 5 is significant because of the events that occur in this chapter. This novel could teach people many things about society, and life, that has not changed since Shelly's time.