Marry Wollstonecraft Shelly's Book 'Modern Day Frankenstein'

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Modern day Frankenstein

In Marry Wollstonecraft Shelly’s book Frankenstein, she created a person by an untraditional process. Ultimately she was trying to play God. I can see this happening in today’s society in several ways. The first way I see it is when couples are able to seek out help from fertility specialist, to ensure pregnancy and even sometimes the gender of the baby. This is sometimes done to prevent the spread of diseases like muscular dystrophy, where only male offspring will be affected via the mother, but other times it is done for couples who want to balance their family. One other way I see what could be considered a modern-day Frankenstein is in the work of plastic surgeons. In their work they are feeding the crazed need

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