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Frankenstein's monster

Something that harms or destroys its creator and cannot be controlled. A reference to the monster in the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. At first, my side business seemed like a good idea, but it has turned into Frankenstein's monster, eating away at my time and finances. Haven't we all learned by now that science is a Frankenstein's monster not to be manipulated for financial gain? This merger has become a Frankenstein's monster that will put us all in legal peril.
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Frankenstein's monster

a thing that becomes terrifying or destructive to its maker.
Frankenstein was the title of a novel written in 1818 by Mary Shelley . The scientist Frankenstein creates and brings to life a manlike monster which eventually turns on him and destroys him; Frankenstein is not the name of the monster itself, as is often assumed.
1991 John Kingdom Local Government & Politics in Britain The factories of the bourgeoisie had created another dangerous by-product, a Frankenstein's monster posing a constant sense of threat—the working class.
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The use of social media is so indigenous now that society has begun to use it to validate itself - Frankenstein illustrates this beautifully as it warns it audience about the dangers that can follow.
The Ghost Of Frankenstein in 1941 saw Cedric Hardwicke as both Ludwig Frankenstein and the ghost of Henry Frankenstein with Lon Chaney as the monster and Bela Lugosi as Ygor.
The Ghost of Frankenstein, in 1941, saw Cedric Hardwicke as both Ludwig Frankenstein and the ghost of Henry Frankenstein, with Lon Chaney as the monster and Bela Lugosi as Ygor.
Often regarded as one of the first science fiction novels, Frankenstein tells the story of a young student, Victor Frankenstein, who abandons his studies to pursue his dream of bringing the dead back to life.
There's just one problem with the common reading of Frankenstein as a cautionary tale: It flows from a profound misunderstanding of the original text.
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The week before his final performance at NYCB, he was contemplating his next moves: another outing with Christopher Wheeldon in the November New York City Center production of Brigadoon; and an off-Broadway debut, choreographing on himself and starring in an Ensemble for the Romantic Century production, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The show, which opens this month at the Pershing Square Signature Center, is a typical Ensemble amalgam--excerpts from the novel and Shelley's other writings merged with music and art.
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For Go Ayano, lead star of the fantasy TV series, 'Frankenstein's Love,' the biggest challenge in adapting a 100-year-old story was how to update it and introduce it to a different audience in 2017, and 'at the same time honor the original work.'
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