I thought it was interesting that Mary Shelley had three distinct dreams in which she combined the contents for the plot of her story and she identified herself most with the creature because of her childhood and life. I liked finding out how she came up with the name from a nearby castle she once stayed at. It was surprising that the novel went through three publishers before it was published, because it is such a beautiful story.
The documentary describes Frankenstein phenomenon "as becoming 'out of control'," because everybody wanted to "cash in" by putting on plays, movies, and writing books based on it, like Harry Potter and Twilight, the popular series of today. Like Mary Shelley, Stephenie Meyer also had a distinct dream about her monster, Edward Cullen.
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