Few works of Romantic literature have captured the public imagination as forcefully as Mary Shelley’s first novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Structured around the struggle between its protagonist, Victor Frankenstein, and the far more sympathetic antihero, the unnamed Creature, the tale embodies the power of myth while portraying the latest scientific research of the day. Whether one reads the novel, or experiences the story through the changing persona of the Creature through stage and screen, its themes remain fresh some two centuries later.