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Frankenstein is a novel that was written by Mary Shelley. It was first published in 1818. The story was about a man named Victor Frankenstein who created a monster that committed a series of murders when he was rejected by society. Mary Shelley was the author of the novel Frankenstein. She was born in August of 1797 and died in February of 1857, at the age of fifty-four. In the summer of 1816, Mary stayed with a poet named …

…have made judgement based on his appearance, but on the moral content of his character. Frankenstein is one of the greatest horror stories of all time. A great part of the story was a flashback of Victor's life. A flashback is when a story is interrupted to portray a past event. The irony of the novel is that Victor Frankenstein greatest scientific achievement, which turned out to be a monstrosity, evolved into his arch nemesis.