I began this story during the summer of 1816, when ghost stories filled our evenings near Geneva and each of us was challenged to invent a tale. My first idea did not arrive as a finished novel. It grew through drafts, revisions, and the question that stayed with me: what does a creator owe a being brought into the world? When you read Frankenstein, look beyond the experiment itself. Notice Victor's first response after the creature lives. That moment became the moral centre of the book.