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A Life Without A Birth

The 1818 classic novel, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, captures the devastatingly potent aftermath following a creation of life by artificial means, and the havoc the creation reaps within creator's world. Though written and published long before the onset of the 20th or 21st century, the central themes and motifs are still a particularly relevant and are still studied today, especially the concept of an absent mother figure. Known as the prime bearer of life and the natural nurturer, the necessity of that role is uncontested and attests to the wreckage that results partly because of the emptiness when one is missing. Thus, this notion of a nonexistent mother image relates to the author's own life narrative, which is likely to have influenced Shelley's writing, though autobiographical correlations are not always necessarily intentional or meant to elude to that connection. Instead, they are made to provide some additional insight into the author's mind......

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