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The Lasting Impressions of has had a lasting impression on audiences since its publication in 1818. This continuing popularity is for many reasons. On the simplest level, is a novel that shows audiences there is a way to defy death, but on a deeper level ....

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.... is shunned by society simply because he looked different from them and they did not understand him. People are scared of what they do not understand, which is why they were frightened by Victor’s creature. The desire to understand death leads to the desire to control it. Even though death is something that is out of the control of humans, human nature has the urge to be in control of everything. The novel fascinates people because death has been overcome, at least that is how it appears in the beginning. Even Victor himself is fascinated with death. In Volume 1 of the novel, Victor talks of his fascination with the human form and its decay a ....