During the 18th century, a group of thinkers believed they could explain everything through science. This period was called the enlightenment but shortly after, a group decided that nature was too powerful and complex to understand. This way of thinking is called Romanticism. Romantics believe that nature and God are superior to man and if humans even try to understand life or alter it, their studies will end up horribly. Many Romantic artists and writers depict nature as an unstoppable force and that is no different with Mary Shelly’s novel Frankenstein. Shelly believes that nature is not to be tampered with and mirrors the Romantic belief that nature cannot be altered because it is too powerful. This idea is expressed that through Victor
