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Frankenstein: A Modern Perspective A classic, by definition, is a piece of art so revolutionary and universal that its sentiments cannot be restricted to the time at which it is presented. But how is this accomplished? Do the authors of such works possibly know what issues will be relevant in the future? Can a 19-year old girl, on a dark night in October have been gifted with prophetic as well as literary powers? Or is …

…the echoes of the child questioning his father about being abandoned. And although Mary Shelly never heard of “dead-beat dads”, Freud’s view on psychological development, the Ku-Klux Klan or Dolly the cloned sheep, the themes of child abandonment, childbirth and creation, prejudice and the danger of scientific advancement are so imbedded in the novel that these things are just as relevant to the interpretation of the novel as if she had known about them.