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I was surprised by this. Been needing/wanting to read it for many years now, and it wasn't anything I expected. First, who knew it would be so much easier to sympathize with the monster than Frankenstein? Frankenstein is incredibly lame! A "romantic" character, overflowing with pathos, and yet just so...lame. I guess the real value of this is what it teaches us about the context in which it was written: the way that nature is continuously described as beautiful, sublime, etc, versus the artifici
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So many things I could have done better in the teaching of this novel. There's always next year.
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