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  2. Paradox of fiction - Wikipedia

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    The theory argues that people do not experience real emotions with fiction but rather something less intense. [6] People experience quasi-emotions that they imagine to be real emotions. [ 6 ] For example, when watching a horror movie where the monster makes an attack towards the viewer (towards the camera), the viewer can be startled but does ...

  3. Frankenstein in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Frankenstein, a play adapted by Christine Davey, premiered at La Mama Courthouse in 2023. This production updates the original story to explore the themes of gender rights, wealth, class and the patriarchy. [37] Frankenstein, a play adaptation by Shake & Stair Theatre Co, premiered at Queensland Performing Arts Centre in 2023. [38]

  4. Mutability (poem) - Wikipedia

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    The eight lines from "Mutability" which are quoted in Frankenstein occur in Chapter 10 when Victor Frankenstein climbs Glacier Montanvert in the Swiss Alps and encounters the Creature. Frankenstein recites: "We rest. – A dream has power to poison sleep; We rise. – One wandering thought pollutes the day; We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or ...

  5. Frankenstein - Wikipedia

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    Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously ...

  6. Frankenstein complex - Wikipedia

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    The "Frankenstein complex" is similar in many respects to Masahiro Mori's uncanny valley hypothesis. The name, "Frankenstein complex", is derived from the name of Victor Frankenstein in the 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley. In Shelley's story, Frankenstein created an intelligent, somewhat superhuman being, but ...

  7. Genetics in fiction - Wikipedia

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    H. G. Wells's 1896 The Island of Dr Moreau imagined the use of hybridisation to create human-like hybrid beings.. Mutation and hybridisation are widely used in fiction, starting in the 19th century with science fiction works such as Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein and H. G. Wells's 1896 The Island of Dr. Moreau.

  8. On Frankenstein - Wikipedia

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    Frankenstein develops the theme of "necessity" which Shelley wrote about in that poem. It is a philosophical idea of the novel. [5] The review related Frankenstein to Percy Bysshe Shelley's own works: "The environment is an aspect Shelley also emphasises in his preface to the 1818 edition.

  9. Emotion - Wikipedia

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    Basic Emotions: Prinz's theory is associated with the idea of basic emotions, which are a limited set of universal and biologically driven emotional states. He argues that attributions of basic emotions are part of human cognitive architecture and that these attributions are made automatically and rapidly.