The desire to make history to discover what remains undiscovered, or to know what remains unknown is an everlasting human goal. Although many have failed to realize this dream, a very few have been passionately successful in its pursuit. The immortality power that these select few have, of course, only provided to encourage those who come after. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein is a literary reflection upon this intensely human desire here illustrated by the title …showed first 75 words of 440 total…

…showed last 75 words of 440 total…ice. Moreover, in Mary Shelley's time science was just beginning to make powerful steps alongside the beginnings of industrialization. She feared that these steps were somehow inhuman, that there were things humans were meant not to know. She created the similar characters to show how the search of two paths of forbidden knowledge creates. This story is always going to be an all time classic tale of selfishness, personal glory, and the quest for immortality!