Published in 1818, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a Gothic novel that explores the disaster that ensues after Victor Frankenstein, a natural philosophy student, unlocks creation’s secrets and arrogantly brings to life a monstrous creature. His arrogance leads to his loved ones’ deaths and his own and the monster’s misery. Told from nested first-person perspectives, including Victor’s and the monster’s, the novel explores themes such as human limits, the sublimity of nature, cycles of vengeance, and the nature of prejudice.