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Frankenstein / Existential Burden

Author: Mary Shelley (Gutenberg)  | Themes: creator vs creation, isolation, hubris, despair, nature's power  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-03-12

If I were engaged in any high undertaking or design, fraught with extensive utility to my fellow creatures, then could I live to fulfil it. But such i...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Artistic Confrontation

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: trauma, creation, myth, perception, transformation  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-03-11

I overcame the horror that inspired me, and, taking a pencil, began to draw it. “Perhaps this is the same which the Alector saw,” said Conseil.
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Frankenstein / Creator and Creature

Author: Mary Shelley (Gutenberg)  | Themes: rejection, compassion, creation, isolation, identity  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-03

Relieve me from the sight of your detested form.” “Thus I relieve thee, my creator,” he said, and placed his hated hands before my eyes, which I flung...
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Frankenstein / Guilt and Creation

Author: Mary Shelley (Gutenberg)  | Themes: guilt, isolation, madness, responsibility, creation  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-29

Justine, poor unhappy Justine, was as innocent as I, and she suffered the same charge; she died for it; and I am the cause of this—I murdered her. Wil...
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The War of the Worlds / Technological Innovation

Author: H.G. Wells (Gutenberg)  | Themes: industrialization, progress, creation, anxiety, wonder  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-17

These last had brought with them certain fresh appliances that stood in an orderly manner about the cylinder. The second handling-machine was now comp...