Roughly halfway through the classic 1818 novel Frankenstein, the frightening and malignant creature created by Victor Frankenstein confronts him—and explains in the plainest terns possible the new balance in the relationship between them: “Remember that I have power; you believe yourself miserable, but I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you. You are my creator, but I am your master; obey!” Sometimes, as this novel warns us, the monsters we build take charge and turn us into their servants, so we cannot presume we will always be in control of what we foolishly create. The dire consequences of reanimating a corpse stitched-together from body parts dug up from graveyards would seem apparent to most, but Victor Frankenstein, drunk on the power and glory he believed would soon be his if his experiment Read more