Frankenstein or modern Prometheus. Shelley M.

The main book of the young Englishwoman Mary Shelley stood at the origins of the science fiction genre and undoubtedly left her mark in world literature. Interest in the tragic story about the ingenious scientist Frankenstein and his terrible creation does not weaken today, because there is still no answer to the main question posed in the novel - whether a person can interfere in the sacrament of nature and, acting as God, create himself Similar? And today there are and continue to create numerous film adaptations and adaptations based on the novel or inspired by its ideas.