Archetypes In Frankenstein

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Synthetic Biology, Science Fiction, and the Escape from Boredom Synthetic biology may seem like an area of study that is not very connected to our popular culture, and it comes across much like a field inaccessible to the non-expert, but Kurt Andersen, who reports with Eric Molinsky, the producer of the article “Biology in Pop Culture”, has seen these ideas present in popular culture for decades. Screenwriters, such as Kurt Andersen are keen to two basic archetypes.
These two basic archetypes Molinsky chose to discuss include the lone scientist, such as Dr. Frankenstein meets Dr. Moreau, who have been banished from the scientific community because of their ideas, which the scientific community deemed “too extreme”, as well as the second basic

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