Frankenstein

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This is a discussion of one particular literary critic's view of Mary Shelly's "Frankenstein", in which she compares the literary work to the modern portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in modern science fiction films. In it, the writer discusses the reasons Mary Shelly's creature would not make a popular movie character.

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"Our society has long relied on entertainment venues to help individuals establish their normalcy. It is a sad fact that, in order to feel one's "belongingness," it is necessary to view those who don't belong in order to make the comparison. Take, for example, the idea of a circus "freak." Those observers on the outermost fringes of society can look at them "the bearded lady, the little person, or, the most infamous of his kind, the Elephant man and take comfort in the fact that, as weird or marginal or outcast as they are, there are still individuals out there who are more so. To humanize these individuals or in fact, to see them as human at all "would defeat their entertainment value."

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