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Candor Chasma

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Fight Evil with Evil

Frankenstein is a story about how one man tampers with nature and creates a monster that is neither dead nor alive. It is also a story about loneliness and the efforts humans -- and monsters -- make to find companionship. This monster, we learn, does not know how to be human. As the monster is not fully equipped to deal with his life, and other living creatures are not equipped to deal with him, he fears and becomes feared. He tries to love and learns to hate. In the end, he perishes. We learn about Frankenstein and his creation from Robert Walton, an explorer of the North Pole, who finds a man "nearly frozen" and brings him onto his ship. This man is Victor Frankenstein, who has suffered the loss of all that is dear to him because of the consequences of his own ambition to create life by tampering with both nature and morality. After the monster has killed everyone Frankenstein has loved, he flees and Frankenstein tracks him down. When Frankenstein is rescued by Walton, he tells him the story of his life and asks him to continue the pursuit of the monster. When Walton meets the monster, he is impressed with his eloquence but wary of his power and evil. The monster ends the story by committing suicide to escape from the unbearable condition given to him by his creator.