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= **FRANKENSTEIN TEXTS** = **Frankenstein Or The Modern Prometheus** **Search-able full text online edition** []

**Audio Reading of Frankenstein** []

=POETRY= **Speeches For Dr. Frankenstein** "Speeches For Dr. Frankenstein" by Margaret Atwood

**"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Coleridge** @http://www.online-literature.com/coleridge/646/

=ARTICLES= @https://newrepublic.com/article/101435/mary-shelley-frankenstein-godwin-bodleian-oxford
 * Was ‘Frankenstein’ Really About Childbirth? by Ruth Franklin**

@http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/10/the-enduring-scariness-of-the-mad-scientist/382064/
 * The Enduring Scariness of the Mad Scientist by Carri Rom**

Sometimes madness inspires genius. Four examples of crazy genius. By Ferris Jabr. //Psychology Today//. published on September 01, 2008 - last reviewed on October 27, 2008 @http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200809/mad-scientists-fringe-benefits
 * Mad Scientists: Fringe Benefits**

//Humanities//, September/October 2002, Volume 23/Number 5
 * "It's Alive"; Frankenstein's Monster and Modern Science** by Tina Pamintuan

@http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/cloning.shtml
 * Cloning Fact Sheet published by the Human Genome Project**

@http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3076915/ns/health-special_reports/
 * Cloning For Cures, Cutting Through the Confusion**

ActionBioScience.org @http://www.actionbioscience.org/biotech/mcgee.html
 * Primer on Ethics and Human Cloning**

The scientific, legal, and ethical obstacles by Zach Zorich, [|Archaeology (March/April 2010)]
 * Should We Clone Neanderthals?**

@http://www.biopoliticaltimes.org/article.php?id=5075
 * Response to "Should We Clone Neanderthals"**


 * Article: The Myth of Prometheus and the Liver**

=TERMS AND DEFINITIONS=

Cognitive dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding two contradictory ideas simultaneously. The theory of cognitive dissonance proposes that people have a motivational drive to reduce dissonance by changing their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors, or by justifying or rationalizing them.[|[2]] It is one of the most influential and extensively studied theories in social psychology. Read the full definition: []
 * Cognitive dissonance definition**

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A **god complex** is a non-clinical term generally used to describe an individual who consistently believes they can accomplish more than is humanly possible or that their opinion is automatically above those they may disagree with.[|[1]] The individual may believe he or she is above the rules of society and should be given special consideration. The term "god complex" does not appear in the //[|Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)]//.[|[2]]
 * God complex**

Humphry Davy: in 1802 appointed professor of chemistry at Royal Institution (aged 23); important contributions to electro-chemistry; In 1816 Mary Shelley read Humphrey Davy's //A Discourse, Introductory to a Course of Lectures on Chemistry// (1802). The following is an excerpt from this work: Science has ... bestowed upon [man] powers which may be called almost creative; which have enabled him to change and modify the beings surrounding him, and by his experiments to interrogate nature with power, not simply as a scholar, passive and seeking only to understand her operations, but rather as a master, active with his own instruments ... who would not be ambitious of becoming acquainted with the most profound secrets of nature; of ascertaining her hidden operations; and of exhibiting to man that system of knowledge which relates so intimately to their own physical and moral constitution? Collected Works of Humphry Davy, volume 2, ed. John Davy (London, 1839).
 * Introductory Salon Activity Quotation**

Theoi Project, a site exploring Greek mythology and the gods in classical literature and art @http://www.theoi.com/Titan/TitanPrometheus.html
 * Information about the Promethean myth**

=ART= By Theodore Gericault (1819) || **Prometheus Bound** || **An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump**by Joseph Wright (1768) || Visit the Louvre Museum web siteto learn more about this work. || ||  View an interactive image of this work on the National Gallery web page. || by Paul Manship ||  ||   ||
 * The Raft of the Medusa**
 * The Raft of the Medusa**
 * [[image:gericault_raft_medusa1.jpg width="360" height="245"]]
 * ** Prometheus **

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