The Modern Prometheus Story What happens when science crosses the line between life and death? In his feverish pursuit of forbidden knowledge, Victor Frankenstein steals fire from the heavens and pays the price. What he creates is no mere experiment, but a living nightmare: a creature stitched from death, cursed with consciousness, and driven mad by rejection. Frankenstein is more than a tale of horror, it’s a mirror held up to human ambition, isolation, and the cruel cost of obsession. Mary Shelley’s gothic masterpiece explores what happens when genius becomes arrogance, and creation turns against its creator. A story still as electrifying, unsettling, and painfully human as it was two centuries ago.