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1. Describe Frankenstein’s initial response to his creation Frankenstein toiled ceaselessly to create his monster, promising himself that “exercise and amusement” would fill his time “when [the] creation should be complete” (p. 60). However, once the creature’s eyes opened with the first vestiges of life, Frankenstein right away declared his god-like act of creation as a “catastrophe.” This marks a drastic change to his approach to the ‘experiment’ of creating a new, living being: leading …

…monster: it has the shape of a man, yet it is not a human being. Conflict ensues in the movie about the machine’s appearance of humanity—similar in manner to the difficulties of acceptance that the monster in Frankenstein cannot overcome because of his being man-like, yet not man. In both cases, creation was accomplished with the goal of producing something modeled after man, however the end result is decidedly NOT man—just man-made.