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MEDITERRANEAN DIET RESEARCH PAPER

The paper is being retracted. Flaws in a study of the Mediterranean diet led to
a softening of its conclusions about health benefits.


MEDITERRANEAN DIET RESEARCH PAPER

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Eat a Mediterranean diet to cut heart disease risk, study says Mediterranean
diet The Mediterranean advantage Articles on Mediterranean diet



A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials comparing effects of the
Mediterranean diet versus low-fat diets on cardiovascular risk factors showed
modest but significant benefits of the former on body weight, body mass index,
blood pressure, fasting glycaemia, total cholesterol, and high-sensitive
C-reactive protein, with no statistically significant differences on low-density
lipoprotein LDL -cholesterol and high-density lipoprotein HDL -cholesterol
levels [ 54 ].

Another meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials searching for the effects
of the Mediterranean-like food patterns in the primary prevention of
cardiovascular disease suggested benefits on total and LDL-cholesterol levels [
55 ]. Separate studies confirmed that adherence to the Mediterranean diet was
associated with a favorable evolution of abdominal obesity [ 56 ], favorable
weight changes, and a reduced incidence of overweight and obesity [ 57 ]. The
protection provided by the Mediterranean diet against the development of type 2
diabetes was confirmed by a systematic review and meta-analysis considering
several dietary patterns [ 58 ].

From the studies included in this meta-analysis, two prospective clinical
trials, one in healthy volunteers [ 59 ] and the other in patients with a
history of myocardial infarction [ 60 ], were specifically designed to evaluate
the benefits of the Mediterranean diet in the prevention of type 2 diabetes
mellitus. Both these trials found a higher adherence to the Mediterranean diet
associated with a reduced risk for developing diabetes [ 59 , 60 ]. A
sub-analysis in the EPIC study also described an inverse relationship between
the adherence to the Mediterranean diet and the risk of developing diabetes [ 61
].

Mediterranean diet and brain health: Mayo Clinic Radio


Studies in patients already diagnosed with type 2 diabetes were fewer, mostly
cross-sectional and small-scaled, which may explain why only some of them were
able to prove a benefit of the Mediterranean diet on parameters evaluating the
glycemic control, while others had neutral results [ 62 , 63 ]. However, no
deleterious effects were identified, and benefits in terms of cardiovascular
risk reduction were also confirmed in type 2 diabetic patients [ 63 ].

Nevertheless, several meta-analyses including clinical trials in already
diagnosed type 2 diabetes patients also suggest a beneficial effect of the
Mediterranean diet on glycemic control, evaluated by the evolution of plasma
glucose and glycated hemoglobin HbA1c levels [ 64 , 65 , 66 , 67 ]. After
studies showing protective effects of the Mediterranean diet against
cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, analyses concentrating on possible
benefits in other chronic diseases followed.

A first indication of a possibly favorable effect of the Mediterranean diet on
cancer morbidity and mortality was seen in a secondary analysis of the Lyon Diet
Heart Study [ 25 ]. Reduced rates of death by cancer were then seen in several
studies in Swedish and United States populations [ 48 , 68 ]. According to a
recent systematic review and meta-analysis, a higher adherence to the
Mediterranean diet seems to have an inverse association with overall cancer
mortality and the risk of colorectal, breast, gastric, liver, head and neck,
gallbladder and bile ducts cancer [ 69 ].

Another focused review suggests a reduced rate for the Mediterranean diet of all
digestive cancers, except for pancreatic cancer [ 70 ]. The EPIC study is a
large-scale, prospective cohort study in 10 European countries, including ,
adults followed for a period of 15 years for various cancer, cardiovascular,
metabolic, neurodegeneration, and nutrition outcomes; research is still ongoing
in multiple working groups and current or future publications are expected to
shed light on pathways linking cancer and nutrition [ 71 , 72 ].

For the moment, some components of the Mediterranean diet were suggested to have
a strong association with benefits in the primary and secondary prevention of
cancer [ 73 ]. Some data seem to show a protective effect of the Mediterranean
diet against non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, with a higher adherence being
associated with a lower severity of hepatic steatosis and reduced levels of
alanine—aminotransferase both in cross-sectional and in some low-number,
short-term prospective studies [ 74 ]. Last but not least, the Mediterranean
diet might offer protection against the development of neurodegenerative
diseases.

Previously mentioned data, coming from populations living in India, the United
Kingdom, and the United States [ 45 , 46 , 48 , 49 , 68 , 76 , 77 , 78 , 79 ],
are not the only attempts to adapt the Mediterranean diet outside countries in
the Mediterranean Basin. Another longitudinal 2-year study on obese workers from
Israel obtained important weight, triglycerides, and total cholesterol
reductions in subjects randomized to a calorie-restricted Mediterranean diet;
during an additional 4-year follow-up of the initial subjects, the total weight
loss was significantly more important than that obtained by a low-fat,
low-calorie diet or by a low-carb diet, thus suggesting these metabolic benefits
might originate from a better long-term adherence [ 82 , 83 ].

In a set of studies on United States firefighters, a profession at high risk for
cardio-metabolic disease, a greater adherence to the Mediterranean diet was
associated with significant improvement of weight, LDL-cholesterol and
HDL-cholesterol values, with reductions in total weight, body fat compartment,
and prevalence of metabolic syndrome and with higher popularity scores and
better adherence between Fire Service members [ 84 ]. These data may be
justified by the indulgent and appealing lifestyle which is characteristic to
the Mediterranean diet, which comprises neither total interdiction in any food
group, nor calorie counting [ 15 ].

Research attempting to decipher the mechanisms involved in the positive effects
of the Mediterranean diet on the risk of cardiometabolic, cognitive or
neoplastic diseases covers an increasing number of publications in recent years
[ 5 , 34 , 85 , 86 ]. Various nutrients and foods present multiple interactions
and reciprocally enhance their positive effects, in such a measure that no
separate food principle can be taken apart from the context of the whole dietary
pattern or be used as an isolated explanation for the benefits brought by the
Mediterranean diet altogether.

In short, pathways leading to a favorable effect of the Mediterranean diet on
various diseases can be systematized as belonging to one or more of the
following: lipid lowering and modulating effects; anti-inflammatory,
anti-oxidative, and anti-aggregating effects; modulation of cancer-prone
mediators such as hormones or growth factors; decreased stimulation of hormonal
or other extra- and intracellular transmitting pathways involved in the
development of metabolic diseases and cancer, due to the changes in the amino
acid content of the diet, compared to other eating styles; changes in gut
microbiota, driving a modified production of bacterial metabolites [ 88 ].

A sub-analysis in the PREDIMED trial found a higher polyphenol intake to be
associated with reduced all-cause mortality; statistically significant
differences were seen for stilbenes and lignans, with no significant
relationship between flavonoids or phenolic acids and overall mortality [ 89 ].
Olive oil should be understood as more than a vegetal fat comprising
predominantly monounsaturated fatty acids such as the oleic acid, but also
polyunsaturated fatty acids such as linoleic acids.

The high content in polyphenols and phytochemicals of the olive oil exerts
sustained antioxidant actions and reduces the oxidation of unsaturated fatty
acids in its composition [ 87 , 88 ]. Moreover, the total antioxidant potential
of the Mediterranean diet is completed by the phytochemicals found in whole
grains and antioxidant vitamins found in vegetables and fruits. Besides olive
oil, the healthy balance of fatty acids in the Mediterranean diet is completed
by the polyunsaturated fatty acids brought by the sustained consumption of nuts,
seeds, and whole grains and by the moderate or high fish intake.

The high content of vegetal fiber brought by the rich consumption of whole
grains, legumes, and fruits reduces insulin resistance, inhibits cholesterol
absorption in the intestine and cholesterol synthesis in the liver, thus
contributing to the overall cardiovascular protection. Phytosterols comprised in
nuts, whole grains, seeds, vegetables, and fruits also contribute to the control
of the intestinal absorption of cholesterol [ 88 ]. A systematic review of
experimental studies investigating the relationships between the Mediterranean
diet and transcriptomic activity in various tissues found evidence to support
this association, although provided by a relatively small number of research
papers.

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Besides the anti-inflammatory actions of the monounsaturated fatty acids found
in virgin olive oil, phenolic derivatives such as tyrosol, hydroxytyrosol,
secoiridoids, and lignans, also found in olive oil, seem to influence the cell
cycle expression, while terpenes such as oleanoic and maslinic acids hold
modulatory influences on genes acting on the circadian clock in animal models [
91 ].

Like all the other territories of the world, Mediterranean countries were not
able to get rid of the current trend of globalization interfering with all
cultures, including the one relating to food [ 92 ].


EAT A MEDITERRANEAN DIET TO CUT HEART DISEASE RISK, STUDY SAYS

Worldwide acculturation is setting a marked stamp on food choices, and exchanges
of agricultural products, recipes, and traditions have become a daily rule. As
Western food culture, technologies, and advertising are driven by a powerful
economic force, they tend to exert a marked influence on traditional eating
habits and to substitute them even in their traditional homelands. All of this
has resulted in a continuously growing prevalence of excess weight and other
eating-related chronic diseases between the last generations of
Mediterranean-neighboring populations [ 93 ].

Several surveys of dietary habits performed in Mediterranean regions previously
participating in the Seven Countries Study, and featuring low rates of
cardiovascular events Crete, Greece; Nicotera, Crevalcore and Montegiorgio,
Italy , showed a decreasing adherence to the Mediterranean dietary traditions
manifested by increased intakes of saturated fatty acids, animal foods, cakes,
pies, cookies, and sweet beverages, and decreased intakes of monounsaturated
fatty acids [ 94 , 95 ].

Most worryingly, low rates of adherence to the Mediterranean diet were seen in
multiple studies among children and adolescents in Cyprus and Greece [ 96 , 97 ,
98 , 99 ].


MEDITERRANEAN DIET

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Environmental difficulties at present are also challenging the sustainability of
the Mediterranean way of living. Land wasting also has deleterious consequences
on food production. Causes of land degradation include expansion of urbanization
and associated infrastructures, industrial and urban waste pollution, soil
erosion by wind and water, salinization and alkalinization, expansion of
tourism-prone littoral zones, sand encroachment, decline of organic matter, all
coupled with the limited possibilities of agriculture-matched soil expansion.

Global climate changes also have an echo in the Mediterranean Basin, as they
induce not only water scarcity and land degradation, but also failure of crops,
fisheries, and livestock productions. Last but not least, the biodiversity of
species in the Mediterranean regions previously some of the richest in the world
is continuously declining and a tendency towards monocultures and standardized
cultivation practices can be observed, with a negative impact on local food
production [ 7 , ].

Given the nutrition challenges occurring today, the pyramid-form graphical
representation of the advisable Mediterranean eating pattern had to change in
order to adapt to a world where undernutrition coexists with the obesity
epidemic induced by a sedentary and hypercaloric lifestyle.

Other diet-associated elements such as regular physical exercise, adequate rest,
the importance of conviviality and culinary activities seen as pleasures and
positive occupations, the need for holding in high-esteem local habits,
biodiversity, seasonality and the predominant use of traditional, local, and
eco-friendly food products are also highlighted [ ].

Research aimed at evaluating the combined benefits achieved by associating the
Mediterranean eating pattern with systematic induction of weight loss is also
under way. While fighting for sustainability and economic survival in its
homelands, the Mediterranean diet must also overcome barriers in other
territories of the world, where its health benefits are recognized by the
medical community, but adoption by communities is still limited due to the
dominance of less healthy Western behaviors. Countries in Northern Europe have
started to adopt a Mediterranean-like eating pattern due to the increased
availability of Mediterranean fruits and vegetables in local stores and to
well-driven public health policies [ 92 ].

Acquisition in the United States is still restricted, even though modern
nutrition guidelines have already included the Mediterranean eating pattern into
their advisable healthy dietary patterns [ 8 ]. Paradoxically enough, the
Mediterranean diet is not considered anymore a diet for the socially disfavored
classes, as it was the moment Ancel Keys made his first scientific observations,
but a diet for people with a higher socioeconomic status. However, the truth
beneath this concept is not complete. A higher education level is certainly more
able to drive people towards learning more about healthy diets, taking into
consideration the dietary health advice coming from local and international
authorities and finally giving their food choices a higher variability and
diversity.

However, when speaking strictly about money expenditure, the costs of the
Mediterranean diet are close to those of a Westernized diet, because
supplementary expenses on fruits and vegetables are counterbalanced by less
money spent on red meat, desserts, sweets, and fast foods [ ]. A realistic
approach to implementing Mediterranean-like eating habits in populations living
elsewhere than the Mediterranean Sea coasts could be to search first for local
dietary habits by taking an adapted nutritional survey, and then to compare
these newly identified eating patterns to the original Mediterranean diet, to
identify the major differences and to adapt the local habits to the healthier
Mediterranean ones in some key points, without giving up completely on the
specific character of local food cultures [ ].

The Mediterranean diet now lies at a crossroads. A product of three millennia of
culture and traditions, the Mediterranean lifestyle entered the medical
consciousness approximately half a century ago and progressively gained
recognition as one of the healthiest patterns of living. Besides cardiovascular,
metabolic, cognitive, and possibly anti-neoplastic benefits, the Mediterranean
diet seems to be associated with good adherence scores in some
extra-Mediterranean populations and with an improved quality of life.

Henceforth, it is advised today by a large majority of medical professionals all
over the world. At the same time, the erosion of traditions and cultures in the
Mediterranean-neighboring populations makes its survival back home an ever more
difficult matter. Efforts in these apparently disjunctive directions of both
Mediterranean and non-Mediterranean populations are required, in order to make
the entire human race benefit from this complex network of food-associated
habits that began in times of old as a mixture of lifestyle, religion, and lay
culture and which ended up as an emerging medical prescription for health.

After the first form of the manuscript was compiled, C. All authors read and
approved the final manuscript.


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Worldwide obesity dynamics and their determinants. Sentenach-Carbo A.
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Field M. Brouwers M. Andreoli A. Effect of a moderately hypoenergetic
Mediterranean diet and exercise program on body cell mass and cardiovascular
risk factors in obese women. Ruiz-Canela M. Babio N. Effects of long-term
lifestyle intervention with Mediterranean diet and exercise program for the
Management of Patients with metabolic syndrome in a primary care setting.

Estruch R. Primary prevention of cardiovascular disease with a Mediterranean
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the incidence of cardiovascular disease: A Spanish cohort. Menotti A. Factor
analysis in the identification of dietary patterns and their predictive role in
morbid and fatal events. Major dietary patterns and risk of coronary heart
disease in middle-aged persons from a Mediterranean country: The EPIC-Spain
cohort study. Gardener H. Mediterranean-style diet and risk of ischemic stroke,
myocardial infarction, and vascular death: The Northern Manhattan Study.

Fung T. Mediterranean diet and incidence of and mortality from coronary heart
disease and stroke in women. Buckland G. Mediterranean diet in relation to body
mass index and waist-to-hip ratio: The Greek European Prospective Investigation
into Cancer and Nutrition Study. Kastorini C. Turati F. Stewart R. Dietary
patterns and the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events in a global study
of high-risk Patients with stable coronary heart disease.


ARTICLES ON MEDITERRANEAN DIET

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to the impact of television on obesity, viewing, and perhaps screen time, and
breastfeeding. Epidemiologically similar control group that does not follow the
MedDiet. Probably, other lifestyle factors, such as a dramatic increase in
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pollution might have contributed to the increased incidence of these and other
chronic diseases in all these Mediterranean countries 5. On the 27th of November
in at the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II called for a Crusade to free the
holy sites of Jerusalem from muslim domination they had been under muslim
control for 4 centuries The results for secondary mediterranean diet research
paper points are shown in Table 3 and Figure 1B. General cardiovascular risk
profile for use in primary care: the Framingham Heart Study. Weight, height, and
waist circumference were directly measured annually. Strong Essays words 4.
Lancet Neurol. Pressure from beauty campaigns and other societal influences have
drawn a picture of what it means to be beautiful; The picture is a thin,
flawless girl sporting a yellow polka dot bikini whose diet consists of strictly
salad. We describe the protocol deviations and report revised intention-to-treat
and per-protocol effect estimates that do not rely exclusively on the assumption
that all the participants had been randomly assigned to the intervention groups.

Heart J. Bonaccio M. Adherence to the Mediterranean diet is associated with
reduced overall mortality in subjects with diabetes. Prospective results from
the Moli-sani study. Stefler D. Panagiotakos D. Adherence to Mediterranean diet
and risk of developing diabetes: Prospective cohort study.


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Even at the world's most sophisticated technology companies, and especially at
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how constructional transfer from L1 impacts the acquisition of the target
construction in L2. The Construction Grammar approach holds that constructions
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When there are constructions in L1 that are similar to the target construction
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each other in the form-meaning pairing, L1 Korean learners benefit from the
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misleading association of their L1 construction to the target construction and
thus have relatively high error rates and persistent error patterns.

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constructions in question. Although the focus is on L1 Chinese learners, similar
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Also, there is the tale of how Mary Shelley came up with the basic idea of the
book. She claimed that she had a dream showing the lab with the mad scientist
giving life to a hideous creature through the power of a lightning.

The Truth About Frankenstein (don't read the book book report)


I won't question her version. I only want to point out the existence of an
actual Frankenstein's Castle, located in a town of Germany where, besides
several paranormal stories about it, there is a local rumour, that a fellow with
the name of Johann Conrad Dippel was a supposed alchemist that created a monster
using a bolf of lightning Where did I heard something just like this? Try to
came up with a cooler legend!

However, Mary always declared that she wasn't aware of that castle and the
legends tied to it. Let's take out the part of the step-mother and the Grimm
Brothers. It's virtually impossible to believe that Mary Shelley never heard, in
some way, about the existence of Frankenstein's Castle and the particular tale
of Dippel. Without irrespecting the memory of Mary Shelley, this is just like
the story of Diablo Cody, winner of an Oscar for Best "Original" Screenplay for
the film Juno of The main theme of this film is about a teen pregancy.

However, in , there was a South Korean film titled Jenny, Juno that it was a
romantic dramedy movie about teen pregnancy too. Diablo Cody declared that she
never heard before of that South Korean film. Sure, because Juno is such a
common name in America that it was an innocent coincidence. By the way, Juno is
the name's boyfriend in the South Korean's movie, instead of the female Juno
performed by Ellen Page.

American Juno and South Korean Jenny, Juno have totally different stories,
different approaches to the subject and even different reactions to the event
along with different endings. The only dang similarity is that both are about
teen pregnancies. I am not accusing Diablo Cody of plagiarism.

That's not the point. I only say that was so hard for her to admit that she
watched or heard about the South Korean film and that gave her an inspiration
for her own screenplay? In the same way, was so hard for Mary Shelley to admit
that she got in contact in some way with the legend of Dippel and the
Frankenstein's Castle and she used it as inspiration for her own original book?
At least that will make harder to make the connections and even making a more
plausible deniability!!!

I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and
kill each other. THE BAD The writing of the book is tedious, or to be more
accurate is a too slow burner that it took too much to get into the real story
and even worse, once the "action" started, you have again intervals of tedium.

It's indeed a roller coaster but in a bad sense, since you took too much time in
the tedious way up and the moments of intensity are like split-seconds on the
way down.


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The narration style is odd since the book begins with some letters written by a
ship's captain, and the first four letters are boring filler stuff non-relevant
to the actual story, and until the fifth letter the story really started.
However, later of that, the narration changed to the "voice" of Dr.

Victor Frankenstein, but again, our good mad scientist takes too much time to
get to the point telling a lot of non-relevant boring details, even worse, it's
told in the most tedious "tone of voice" that you can imagine. Without emotion
or trying to entertain to the reader.

The chapters of the Creature are more entertained but also, sometimes you wonder
how possible is that this monster so submitted to rage and murder is able to
articule so well his part of the story. So, between that the novel is slow
burner, and the moments of real horror with awful deaths are so scarce and
presented so quick that you can't even develop the proper emotion on that
moments, I wasn't able to enjoy this book as I expected that I would. However, I
can't deny the relevant place that this novel has in the history of literature
and its impact in multiple ways of the spectrum.


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Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned
from me in disgust? He is ugly and humanity does like to punish the ugly - this
is a universal truth about us that in itself is also fairly ugly. The other
thing I liked was that standard ploy of gothic novels — the multiple Chinese
whisper narration. In this the story is all written in a series of letters and
then continuous prose to the sister of a sea captain who hears the story on a
journey to the North Pole from Frankenstein himself, even though much of the
story is also told to Frankenstein by his monster.


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Book ReportFrankenstein. The name of the book I've chosen is Frankenstein which
is written by Mary. Shelly. The book I read is the original one and Mary. This
book is the earliest science fiction in the world and Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley conveys the conflict between human and science that also.

I do like stories like this -that are like Russian Dolls — where it is hard to
tell who is telling the story and just how reliable they could be as a narrator.
I'm not sure I would trust anything an adventurer sea captain told me about
anything - and in the end he is the only source. Unfortunately, that is about
all that I did like. I would have said I know this story well before I read the
book.

There have been endless films made of this story — so there are elements to the
story that are etched into our collective memories. It comes then as a bit of a
shock that many most of these elements are not in the story at all. I guess that
is yet another example of the power of images. The other difference is that in
films the monster is a slow moving automaton, whereas in the book he is much
swifter, stronger and agile than people. Frankenstein may not have made a very
good looking monster, but in every other respect he did a much better job than
God did.

Frankenstein is a very fast learner - he learns to speak in less than a year.
And given the poverty of instruction Chomsky would really be proud! Coincidences
rarely work in fiction — and while they bring delight when they happen in life,
in fiction they tend to stop us in our wilful suspension of disbelief.

The problem is that this story seems to go out of its way to make us do tutting
noises at the improbabilities and constantly strained plotting twists. You know,
hint - if telling me something silly isn't going to improve the story, don't
tell me something silly. I thought there were some interesting comments about
the obligations Gods have to their creations. He spends most of his time
swooning — it seemed the slightest problem has him rushing to his bed for months
on end.


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MegaEssays, "Frankenstein book report. Frankenstein is the story about an overly
ambitious man, Dr. The monster concludes his tale by denouncing Victor for his
abandonment; he demands that Victor construct a female mate for him, so that he
may no longer be so utterly. The monster wanders the countryside while Victor
seeks solace in a tavern near the university. Plot Summary. For two years,
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Book report of frankenstein by mary shelley to do his work. The story began as a
tale Shelley told her companions while they were vacationing in Switzerland.
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A friend dies and he is almost at death's door himself. About the only things he
never did was tear at either his hair or his clothes — but that is hardly high
praise. If it is horror you want, Stephen King is much more frightening, never
tells you how scared you are supposed to feel at any given moment in the story
and is basically a better writer.

But this is a seminal horror story, so I guess for that reason alone… View all
49 comments. View 2 comments. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Mary
Shelley Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English
author Mary Shelley — that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young
scientist who creates a grotesque, sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific
experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first
edition of the novel was published anonymously in London on 1 January , when she
was Her name first appeared on the second edi Frankenstein; or, The Modern
Prometheus, Mary Shelley Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel
written by English author Mary Shelley — that tells the story of Victor
Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a grotesque, sapient creature in an
unorthodox scientific experiment.

Her name first appeared on the second edition, published in France in View all 4
comments. Oct 29, J. If you have not read the book, then you do not know
Frankenstein or his monster. Certainly, there is a creature in our modern
mythology which bears that name, but he bears strikingly little resemblance to
the original. It is the opposite with Dracula , where, if you have seen the
films, you know the story. Indeed, there is a striking similarity between nearly
all the Dracula films, the same story being told over and over again: Harker,
bug-eating Renfield, doting Mina, the seduction of Lucy, Dr.

Van If you have not read the book, then you do not know Frankenstein or his
monster. Van Helsing, the sea voyage from Varna, the great decaying estate--it's
all there, in both book and cultural myth. Even the lines tend to recur, as
almost every retelling has some version of the famed "I never drink--wine.

The first puzzlement comes when the story begins on a swift ship in the arctic,
told in letters between the captain and his beloved sister. The structure of the
story as it follows is, in many ways, not ideal. It is not streamlined, focused,
or particularly believable. It seems that every picturesque cabin in the woods
is inhabited by fallen nobility, that every criminal trial is undertaken on
false pretenses to destroy some innocent person, that an eight-foot-tall
monstrosity can live in your woodshed for a year without being noticed, and that
that same monstrosity can learn to be fluent and even eloquent in both speaking
and reading an unknown language merely by watching its use.

The style itself is ponderous and florid, as Shelley ever is, which is fine when
she has some interesting idea to communicate, but bothersome when she finds
herself vacillating--which is often, since our hero, the good doctor, is
constantly sitting about, thinking about what he might do next, and usually,
avoiding actually doing anything. I understand the deep conflict within him, but
it might have been more effective to actually see him act on some of his
momentary urges before switching instead of letting it all play out in his head.
But then, it's hard to think of him as the hero, anyways, since his activities
tend to be so destructive to everyone around him.

Sure, he is aware of this tendency--hyper-aware, really--and constantly blames
himself, but he doesn't come across as especially sympathetic.


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The monster, on the other hand, is truly naive and hopeless, unable to change
his fate though he often tries to do so, while the doctor tends to avoid doing
anything that might improve the situation. There is a very Greek sense of
tragedy at hand, in that we have a man who, though combined action and inaction,
drives himself inevitably to utter ruin. As Edith Hamilton defines it, tragedy
is a terrible event befalling someone who has such deep capacity for emotion
that they are able to recognize and feel every awful moment, and Dr.

Frankenstein certainly has this capacity. In fact, he seems to have an
overabundance of such feeling, to the point that he spends most of his time
wallowing and declaring his woe--which is not always endearing. But the tragedy
remains the most interesting and engaging part of the book, overcoming the
sometimes repetitive details of the story.

It is an entwined tragedy, a double tragedy between the man and his creation,
and it's never quite clear who is at fault, who is the villain, and who is the
wretch.

The roles are often traded from moment to moment, and there is no simple answer
to wrap up the conflict. Of course, the classic reading of this is an
exploration of the relationship between man and his universe often personified
by 'god'. As human beings, we see our lives as a narrative, ourselves as the
hero, and we look for villains to blame for our short-comings. Looking at the
tale as it is presented, it is easy to read Dr. Frankenstein as the figure of
'god', the creator and authority, the author of life. We see the monster's pain
and suffering and on one hand, it is all the result of his being created in the
first place, and of his creator not planning well enough.

But beyond that, there are also the actions and choices the monster makes that
make him a monster--his own will. But I began to look at it in the opposite way:
the doctor creates a monster for which he can blame all of his problems, a force
which dictates every moment of his life, which causes all of his pains, which
haunts him, powerful and unseen, at every moment.

Frankenstein has created a god. He has made a force which can lord over him, a
god which resembles man, only more powerful, indestructible, inescapable,
terrible. In the end, who is the real 'modern Prometheus'? For almost the entire
book, the only person who ever sees the monster is the doctor himself, and since
the doctor is present for all of the killings, it isn't hard to interpret this
story as the self-justification of a madman: the doctor, himself, could be doing
all of the killings, causing all of the malice, and then explaining it away as
the acts of a horrific creature that only he can see, that only he can speak to.

However, I am not willing to carry this 'unreliable narrator' reading to its
bitter end, since the story itself does not quite support it--but the fact that
the monster can almost be read this way intensifies to the degree to which it is
a story of two intertwined egos, each one blaming the other, like so many toxic
relationships between people, or even between one half of a troubled mind and
the other. But for all that the core idea of the story is strong and
thought-provoking, it is still long-winded, unfocused, and repetitive. It is
certainly impressive for the first novel of a nineteen-year-old, and
demonstrates splendid imagination, but it does not benefit from her literary
affectations.

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