Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is "one of the pioneering works of modern science fiction" and is also a frightening story about the "mysterious fears of our nature". Mary Shelley scoffs at the idea of ​​“playing God,” the idea that comes from the Greek myth of Prometheus, the Greek titan who stole the gift of life from Zeus. Both the stories of Frankenstein and Prometheus reveal the dark side of human nature and the dangerous effects of creating artificial life. Frankenstein reveals the shocking reality of the consequences of harming someone. The creature's first-person narrative reveals his humanity and his desire to be accepted by others despite being different. We are shown that this "monster" is a "creature" and more human than we think. It is in the complex structure of the novel that Mary Shelley creates sympathy. We go from Robert Walton to Victor Frankenstein to the monster and finally back to Walton. With each change of perspective, the reader gains new information about both the facts of the story and the reliability of the narrator. Each perspective adds information that only they know: Walton explains the circumstances of Victor's final days, Victor explains his creation of the monster, the monster explains his turn to evil. This impact of the narrative change gives us a better understanding of each person, and we see that the monster is not a monster at all. Let's start with Victor's story, first his past family life and then the construction of his immoral life. creation, its scientific motivations. We see what drove him to commit this terrible crime and are given insight into his "dangerous" passion. He wanted to create life, create a human, and increase his knowledge of science. This is... half the paper... him, because we don't really know how he felt. We know that he felt unloved and that he cannot even love himself, while we have always received love from our parents and the creature has never received this. He was always alone, he never even had a companion of his own species who had "the same defects". The creature no longer wants to be alive, because it no longer loves the world it lives in, and this is the world we live in. I think this is how Mary Shelley wanted to achieve "chilling horror", she created a monster that was so different from us on the outside but was very similar on the inside, and it's scary that we never really notice as it is inside until the end. We now realize that judging someone can have harmful and lasting effects on them, and this is something we can learn from Mary Shelley.