Black Bear Knows When He's Not Wanted

"The original Frankenstein’s monster wasn’t Boris Karloff -it was (believe it or not) a character created by a 19-year-old author named Mary Shelley …more than 190 years ago."

Oh now come on, surely everybody knows that?

Furthermore many scholars think that it was far from a solo effort. Many believe that it was a team effort for which Shelley was given the credit.

“Frightful must it be; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world. His success would terrify the artist; he would rush away from his odious handiwork, horror-stricken. He would hope that, left to itself, the slight spark of light which he had communicated would fade; that this thing would subside into dead matter;"

Hmmm...maybe God isn't dead after all. Perhaps he's terror-stricken by his creation and is hiding from us, just like Dr. Frankenstein.

The significance of Shelly's work cannot be overstated. Frankenstein changed forever how we see questions of life, death and being. While inanimate objects and constructions may have long been given the semblance of life in the form of golems or homunculi, Frankenstein borrowed from natural creation to imbue dead flesh with life. The apparent sentience and awareness of the creature, capable of human thought and feeling, revealed a mechanistic possibility of being that is at odds with the divine Spirit that drove Adam in the garden.