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Who Is Dick Gregory Juxtapose The Creation Of Frankenstein's Monster?

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In his satirical routine, “Frankenstein”, Dick Gregory juxtaposes the creation of Frankenstein’s Monster to the institution of slavery and the foundation of American racism. He argues that the dominant or privileged population’s fear creates “the Other” within a society. This supposition applies not only to the 1931 film but to Mary Shelly’s 1818 text, in which Victor Frankenstein’s fear is provoked by the principles of appearance and religion. Victor refers to his creation as “Daemon”(77) and “Devil”(102) due to its peculiar appearance and validates his irrational fear by surmising that the unnatural state of the Monster is satanic, just as American slave owners had rationalized their dominance with the assumptions that pagan Africans were
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