This must be the third time I read Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s most famous novel, Frankenstein. She was inspired to write it during her trip to Switzerland with husband Percy Shelley in 1816. She was just 18 years old. It is considered to be one of the earliest examples of science fiction.

Frankenstein is a Gothic masterpiece, a beautiful and compelling work about how the obsession for knowledge leads a brilliant mind to his own destruction. It explores many issues including that of human nature and how emotions pervade the human mind, also, life and death, prejudice, creation, fate and destiny.