... to create a living monster. However, the monster is then left to its own devices and cast out of society. The monster becomes bitter and takes revenge on its creator. The book can be seen to have a number of interpretations, it was written towards the end of the Enlightenment period and so draws from this way of thinking. It can be seen as an argument against the advancement of science and a kind of proleptic for scientists such as Einstein, or comment on the French revolution. It is however best interpreted as an argument for the Enlightenment and what it stands for. The hometown for Frankenstein is Geneva, a city widely considered to have been an Enlightenment 'hotbed' with philosophers such as Rousseau residing there. It was also considered democratic ( an Enlightenment desire ) for its time. Mary Shelley was English and so it appears unnatural to set ...

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