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FRANKENSTEIN
The modern takes of Frankenstein are all very different and unique. To this day, over 100 years later, people are still using this story and making different modern takes on it.

The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein, Kiersten White
In this gripping, beautifully dark, and strongly feminist YA novel, the original plot of Frankenstein is still present, but the perspective is inverted. We see the events through the eyes of Elizabeth Lavenza, who is plucked from poverty to be Victor Frankenstein's companion, a young, haughty, and enigmatic character. Their bond is both profound and disturbing (at least to the reader). After Victor leaves the family for years to pursue his weird studies, Elizabeth finds him and discovers where his monster impulses have led him.

The feminist side of this story is a more modern take of the original Frankenstein. When the original was written, women did not have any rights and were seen in society as managers of the household. This story allowed more of an imagination with the role women play in society.

Frankenstein in Baghdad, Ahmed Saadawi, translated by Jonathan Wright
Rather than retelling the story, Saadawi employs the trappings of Frankenstein to illustrate the horrors of US-occupied Baghdad during the 2003 Iraq invasion. Hadi, a local junkie, starts the story by doing something he enjoys. Hadi stitches these disparate parts together to form a single corpse so that they might be properly buried in the streets of a city destroyed by wars and suicide bombers. A magical occurrence, on the other hand, resurrects the body, which is now hellbent on vengeance. Hadi has accidentally created another thing to be terrified of, rather than offering consolation to hearts.

Using a real life world problem like the attack of US-occupied Baghdad on Iraq in 2003, is expanding your imagination to turn Frankenstein into something way bigger. To make connections to an attack with lives being taken, and putting it into relation with Frankenstein shows how powerful of an impact the book had in real life scenarios.