Similarities Between Frankenstein And The Rebellious Robot

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Have you ever wanted to know between 2 different passages how alike and how different they could be?And how it could affect your experience of reading it? Well in this essay your going to see with comparing the stories “Frankenstein” and “The Rebellious Robot.”Both passages have a lot of similarities but, they are also different in many ways.

The passages are similar in these ways.Both have inventors and invent something but they react different to their creation.In ‘’The Rebellious Robot” Dev thinks his creation is the best thing ever and has no problems and if it does have problems he can fix it in no time and everything will be fine and Greta was very impressed about how it worked. However,in “Frankenstein” Victor is scared of the monster

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