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Frankenstein's monster
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Frankenstein’s monster
living man created by a physiology student from body parts. [Br. Lit.: Mary Shelley Frankenstein]
See : Creation

Frankenstein’s monster
ugly monster. [Br. Lit.: Frankenstein, Payton, 254]
See : Ugliness


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In one Halloween-theme lesson, pupils made a Frankenstein monster mask come to life by making its eyes light up.
Some of the show's contributors are still invoking the hoary image of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein monster.
If, on the other hand, postmodernism is an entropic apocalypse in which each mode of art idolizes itself even as it combines with other modes to form a kind of Frankenstein monster, then whether the creature comes to life depends on the artist's ability to insinuate his or her own life into it.
 
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