"THE MONSTER"

Everyone believes they understand the tale of Frankenstein. They picture the lumbering, stitched-together brute. But they are profoundly mistaken. Frankenstein was the name of the ambitious doctor. The monster was his nameless, misunderstood creation. And in the perennial confusion between the two-the creator and the created-lies a deep, unsettling truth about the human condition: we become inextricably bound to what we bring into existence, and terrifyingly, to what we fear to bring into e...