Question Your Faith in Fiction

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, widely recognized as one of the most impressive gothic novels ever written, managed to give birth to a phenomenal creature: Frankenstein's monster... Or did it? Victor Frankenstein (the main character of the tale) became obsessed with an experiment after his mother's death. Eventually, as a result of this experiment, Frankenstein brings to life a hideous monster compiled of mismatched corpses. After running away from Ingolstadt (the monster's birthplace) Victor and the monster cross paths many times. Yet, no one knows for certain how the two remain so closely in tow. Victor accuses the monster of following him, but (stepping outside the novel) others speculate the creator and created are two in the same. How ever, many people in the novel actually "see" the beast. Then again, many coinciding circumstances between the monster and his "father" cannot be explained without...