Clones

As I wrote recently, any literary work lends itself to interpretation but it should never be forgotten Frankenstein is foremost a story. Not a parable, though I doubt there ever was one.

This novel belongs to the golden age when education was not so widespread it should be discounted. And even though it incorporates the then very current fear of science, something very much coming back with e.g. GM food, and though I heard many an account of Shelley's tale to this effect, I've always chosen to use the equation of outer equals inner in this case.

That is, maybe just beacuse the author is intellectual and the language employed not plowed through easily, this can be done. So, Frankenstein is never worried the least bit about his being a monster; nope, in the frank conversation with his Creator, after all the killings, he merely asks: make me a companion.