The universal  monster I chose was Frankenstein. Frankenstein is a novel written by the English author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley about the young science student Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque but sentient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. The author Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty. The books first edition was published as anonymous in London in 1818. Shelley's name appears on the second edition, published in France in 1823. Frankenstein is infused with elements of the Gothic novel and the romantic movement, and is also considered to be on of the earliest examples of science fiction. Brian Aldiss has argued it should be considered the first true science fiction story because, in contrast to previous stories with fantastical elements resembling those of later science fiction, the central character ''makes a deliberate decision'' and turns to modern experiments in the laboratory'' to achieve fantastic results. It has had a considerable influence in literature and popular culture and spawned a complete genre of horror stories, films, and plays.