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Frankenstein, a metaphor of the problems technology is causing today.
Title: Frankenstein, a metaphor of the problems technology is causing today.
Category: Literature / European Literature
Details: Words: 1731 | Pages: 7.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Frankenstein, a metaphor of the problems technology is causing today.
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In Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus, written in the late nineteenth century by Mary Shelley, Shelley proposes that knowledge and its effects can be dangerous to individuals and all of humanity. Frankenstein was one of our first and still is one of our best cautionary tales about scientific research.. Shelley's novel is a metaphor of the problems technology is causing today.
Learn from me. . . at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement …showed first 75 words of 1731 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1731 total…Prometheus, by Mary Shelley. Ed. M.K. Joseph. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1969. i-xx.
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