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Frankenstein's monster calls himself an abortion. What did he mean by this? This article pursues an answer through medical history and her father, William Godwin's, use of the term.
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By calling himself an "abortion," the monster is blaming others for his mistakes.
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This page is a summary of: Mary Shelley’s Monstrous Abortion, January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-35546-3_12.
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