Ambitious young scientist Victor Frankenstein leaves his loving family and beautiful fiancé to study medicine in Ingolstadt. Whilst there he becomes obsessed with learning the secret of creating life and successfully develops a fully formed ‘man’ using the deceased remains of a convict. When Victor disowns his creation, the creature is filled with rage and threatens to destroy everything that Victor loves.
First published in 1818, Frankenstein remains a tale ahead of its time, foreshadowing developments in science and modern debates about the ethics of cloning.