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TexasProgresive

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8. Also known as The Modern Prometheus

Reply to getting old in mke (Reply #4)

Mon Aug 20, 2012, 06:11 AM

Aug 2012

Shelly's book has long intrigued me. I see it as a metaphor of the industrial age- with the monster being the dehumanizing that mechanization brought to society.

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