Francis Godwin

Peering into Mary Shelly’s different stages of life as well as her early and later works, we can gain an insight of how her life was reflected into her writing. In London, England on August 30, 1797 William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft welcomed their daughter Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin into the world. Her mother was an acclaimed feminist writer, but died just ten short days after giving birth to Mary due to puerperal fever. Her…

capacity to frighten, scare, or startle readers and movie watchers by inducing feelings of terror (Venables). Mary Shelley was an innovative writer of this style. Mary Shelley was born to two famous writers, mother Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and father William Godwin (Nichols x-xi). When Mary was sixteen, she met a young poet by the name of Shelley. No one approved of their love, so they ran away to Switzerland (Nichols 54-64). It was destined for her to become a writer. While away she began…

just returned home from Germany where he served in the Army during World War I. However, his transition from a soldier of war to a citizen in his society proves to be harder than the people around him expect. In “A Sorrowful Woman” written by Gail Godwin, the woman is a wife and mother who falls ill and decides to keep herself away from both of them. Both Krebs and the woman display self-isolation and little tact when dealing with the people around them, yet they maintain steady routines…

The novel Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley, brought a new era to the writing industry. Shelley’s novel can be described as dark, mysterious, and perplexing due to the actions faced and made throughout the book. Inspiration for writing such a novel arose from Shelley’s personal life and incidents endured throughout it. Although she didn’t directly experience certain events written in the novel, she did experience the same or similar amount of darkness and melancholy in her life. The novel…

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, remains an influential piece of gothic literature utilized and widely studied in today’s society for its intricate writings. This chilling novel, inspired by a time of scientific advancement and misogynistic practices, contains various similarities to other literary works and theories. Various components of Frankenstein connect to the feminist theory, the Genesis creation story, and the Prometheus creation story through themes expressing…

Frankenstein incorporates themes of both the Gothic and Romantic, influenced by the long history of Gothic novels before it. Victor Frankenstein, although the nominal protagonist, causes much of the evil that drives the plot of the story. He is a young, deeply passionate man who desires knowledge beyond the ordinary, remarking that even as a child, he wanted to learn “the secrets of heaven and earth… [his] enquiries were directed to the metaphysical” (37). Although his intentions may not be…

The Palace of Illusions , written by award-winning novelist and poet Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is a rendition of the Hindu epic Mahabharata as told from Panchaali's (Draupadi’s) point of view , namely, that of a woman living in a patriarchal world. It is narrated by Paanchali herself, who is the wife of the five Pandava brothers. It follows Paanchali’s life from a fiery birth and a childhood spent in loneliness, where she only had her…

Frankenstein: The Result of Too Much Ambition The 1818 story of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley tells the story of Victor Frankenstein and his over desire to create life from death. After having a normal upbringing, Victor’s life turns upside down when his creature creates more problems than expected. It’s a story of caution, as that begins in the present and flashes back to see where Victor went wrong. The book has many themes, one of the biggest being ambition. It asks, when is too much ambition…

In 1818, Mary Shelley personified the shortcomings of society’s morality in the form of a destructive, ruthless, yet nearly human monster. During an era in which the Industrial Revolution saw the prosperity of the upper class directly lead to the death and poverty of the working class, Shelley wrote Frankenstein to challenge the presence of cultural inhumanity. Shelley’s novel chronicles the life of scientist Victor Frankenstein, whose studies and ambition lead to the creation of a living being…

On its face, Frankenstein is the creation story of a man-made human, turned monster. In reality, this tale is not about the creation of human, but rather the monstrous quality of devaluing a human. In short, Victor makes a human by hand, labels it a monster. He spends the rest of the story becoming a monster himself because he refuses to acknowledge the humanity of his creation. Here, to dehumanize a person is a monstrous act. Dehumanization is a broad term for things like: marginalization,…