The story of Frankenstein was first written by Mary Shelley as a challenge from her friend Lord Byron while in Geneva on holiday with her husband Percy Shelley. The challenge was for each of them to write a horror story. Mary Shelley took up this challenge and Frankenstein was born. She started the story in 1817 and it is thought she took many ideas from Percy Shelley's Prometheus Unbound and most of Frankenstein became based on …showed first 75 words of 838 total…

…showed last 75 words of 838 total…as Frankenstein's monster. The book is not as terrifying as it was because when it was written there was a large fear of the unknown about cloning and the recreation of life, but now there is a certain knowledge of the effects of cloning. This is due to successful scientific projects such as 'Dolly' the Sheep. Overall I believe that Frankenstein will still be relevant for many years but slowly will lose it's terror factor