Monsters, the representative figures of the Gothic, are "never created ex nihilo, but through a process of fragmentation and recombination in which elements are extracted from various forms and then assembled as the monster" (Cohen 1996:11) who claims an identity, which makes Gothic literature a premonitory device of what is to become future generations and their becoming something more. 2. The cyborg introduces the possibility of a new stage of evolution, posthumanism, and it is Hayles who offers a description of this evolutionary stage, seeing it as a stage that "[...] thinks of the body as the original prosthesis we all learn to manipulate" and "configures human being so that it can be seamlessly articulated with intelligent machines" because, in posthumanism, "there are no essential differences or absolute demarcations between bodily existence and computer simulations, cybernetic mechanism and biological organism, robot teleology and human goals" (Hayles 1999:2-3). An act of reading entails a series of mental processes that form one's perception of the text and its characters, with a direct effect that is translated into the reader's reality and interactions with the world every time similarities between the fictional and the real world occur. [...]reading entails processes such as comprehension, visualization, identification of familiar constructs, as well as constructs that step outside the boundary of the known and alter the individual from the point of view of his/her rationalization of events and situations, or of his/her perception of the world. According to Beaumont, the secondary cortex is the part of the brain that interprets what the primary cortex records in terms of stimuli, be they visual, audible or of any other type, while the temporal lobes play a role in "governing correct perception of the self-located within an experiential framework" (2008:90); this would then complete Hakemulder's idea of the effect of role playing following the act of reading.