Senior thesis discovered

Backups are cool because you can stumble across your senior thesis years later, read it, cringe and feel the appropriate level of embarrassment, and then post a bit of it on your blog for the entire Internet-using world to read.

"...Victor Frankenstein essentially breaks the “beneficial bond between the natural and the human world” when he removes women from the natural method of procreation and creates a monster that supercedes man. Shelley invites the reader to watch as Victor’s experiment goes awry. It is not Victor’s wish to create something better than himself, but something equal to himself. This is so the established hierarchy of man over animal can remain in place. Mary Shelley, on the other hand, wishes to destroy the hierarchy, to place man on equal footing with woman and animal. In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley supports scientific progress that challenges hierarchical human dominance through the creation of a man-animal hybrid that is superior to man. ..."