Frankenstein
A Genevan student assembles a living being out of dead matter, then flees the room in horror at what he has made. Abandoned and self-taught, the creature learns language, reads its maker's journal, and comes back to demand a companion. The modern Prometheus: creation abandoned by its maker becomes the maker's shadow.
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Lineage
- influenced by ↑ Prometheus Bound
- influenced by ↑ Paradise Lost
- influenced by ↑ The Castle of Otranto
- ↓ The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
- ↓ Blade Runner
- ↓ Metropolis
- ↓ The Spirit of the Beehive
- ↓ Dracula
- ↓ Frankenstein
- ↓ Bride of Frankenstein
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