In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein states that “if the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then the study is certainly unlawful” (50). The consequences that arise from Frankenstein’s statement have similarities …

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