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Frankenstein Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein deals with many contemporary issues relevant to or society today. The issue of the human ability to both create and destroy is one to be aware of due to our advancing technologies in both the areas of creation and destruction. This novel creates awareness of this particular issue through its intricate dealing with creation and through its dealings with destruction. Through creation destruction in turn can be created. Creation: Something …

…the invention. Victor creates something so hideous that mankind rejects it as a result the monster becomes a destructive fiend. Modern day inventions such as the Nuclear, atomic and phosphorus bombs can be very much-linked into Shelley’s story in this way. Victors Monster was responsible for the destruction of his creator as well as his friends and family in the same way that weapons of mass destruction have been in the last fifty years.