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  <body>I just spent my entire refund check on Amazon :-) I couldn't be happier.</body>
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  <body>I've read it in high school, but I want to gain another perspective.</body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Most of the people just do not get Frankenstein. It is more along the lines of an epic Romantic poem in a novel's form. The fact that the monster was abandoned by his creator is a direct symbol of the abandonment of men; be it some form of intelligent designer or the process of our own evolution. Either way, man has been abandoned in some fashion by some device. This is where I believe the work coincides with the Romantic period. The monster’s request of Frankenstein to create him a mate is a Romantic notion by itself, not speaking of felicity, but of the need for companionship and understanding from a similar being. To know that he is not alone is to feel like he belongs somewhere in this world. The Romantic period is really the first period of writing where the “I” came up as an acceptable topic for writing. How could the Monster’s request for sympathy be more fitting? For the Romantic writers, their writing was about them and their world, not the world itself. It was about them and their personal relationship with nature and their god. I believe that these points are the driving force of our ability to relate to Frankenstein the novel today.  ]]></body>
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