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The Lasting Impressions of Frankenstein &9Frankenstein has had a lasting impression on audiences since its publication in 1818. This continuing popularity is for many an(prenominal) reasons. On the simplest level, Frankenstein is a novel that shows audiences there is a way to live on death, but on a deeper level it reveals many things about homosexual nature and emotion. This is why I feel the novel has persevered through so many years and still enjoys wide popularity.&9Beginning on the simplest level, Frankenstein is a novel about how to defy death. Human kind has been mesmerised with this nonion since the beginning of time. One only has to look at the antiquated Egyptians and their belief of the later aliveness, along with many other cultures and their beliefs of a life aft(prenominal) death to see that overcoming death has fascinated people for centuries. This fascination commode be looked at on several levels. First of entirely, death is frightening. It is somethin g that is not understood completely by military man. Humans are fright of what they do not understand. This is portrayed in Frankenstein when the creature is shunned by society barely 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 Victors 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 Frankenstein fascinates people because death has been overcome, at to the lowest degree 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 after death. "I saw how the fine form of man was degraded and spare I beheld the corruption of death succeed to the blooming cheek of life I saw how the worm i nherited the wonders of the eye and brain" (931). beingness able to create life from something that is non-living is just like cheating death. You stick out control over it, which is what humans want in the first place. It is for all these reasons that Frankenstein has enjoyed continuing popularity throughout the years.Immortality has long been a goal of many humans and stories of it have intrigued people for ages.