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    work sends, but also the literary structure they present. The structure presented in the work set up many of the theme and ideas that they are writing about. One great example of an author who does this is Mary Shelley. She is a great writer, that is most remembered for her writing of Frankenstein. This is one of the only books that she came out with, but it is a great book. It…

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    Throughout the novel, Mary Shelley ties many aspects from the novel to her life, but the way that she does it is very subtle. Shelley takes characters from the novel and based them off of people who were involved in her life. She based Victor off of herself, people can tell from the similarities of how he creates the monster just like she failed to create a child. Mary Shelley’s brother was a large part of her life and she made him Victor’s best friend Clerval. Also throughout the novel Shelley…

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    Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein takes the reader on a journey around countries in Europe, and brings you as far as the Arctic. The story involves one man 's desire to use his passion and love of science to create a living organism. The reader follows along as Frankenstein deals with the emotional stress from playing the hand of God. Shelley’s choice of setting plays an important role in connecting the audience with the story on an emotional level helping them feel the fear, stress, anger and joy…

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    not only boil to the surface as a primal response to danger, but to the sense of terror, to loss, to loneliness, and the like. Gothic stories such as Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, Frankenstein, aspire to unleash and elucidate these sensations. In the fashion of Romantic-era literature, this dread is shown as a ramification of excessive human ambition. To achieve this, Frankenstein shuffles the story’s chronology and employs three different voices to piece its events together, highlighting aspects…

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    In the eighteenth century, romanticism bloomed from men’s love towards nature. To capture its beauty, romanticists often wrote novels stressing emotions and portraying nature as a pure soul. While nature represented an innocent girl, science imitated a reaper that violates nature’s boundaries. Romantic novels then recorded the battles between logic and feelings. These novels, for example, Frankenstein, a Gothic novel written by Mary Shelley, exposes the unethicality of knowledge by describing…

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    children. In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley there is an emphasis on the topic of parenting. Parents are supposed to be people their children should emulate. Mary Shelley has shown examples of bad parents by introducing parental figures that do not give nor receive respect while also being untrustworthy and oblivious. The parents that are introduced in this novel are not to be trusted as they do not help but instead they do harm. While learning about Elizabeth Lavenza’s background it is shown that…

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    Cast into a world replete with bewildering innovation, Mary Shelley, at the mere age of nineteen, defied seemingly impenetrable gender conventions of nineteenth century England through her enticingly horrifying composition of Frankenstein, eternally convoluting the ethics of invention. A Romantic at heart, Shelley, through her intricate elaboration of Victor Frankenstein and his creation as well as scenery, expounds upon the deleterious outcomes associated with the distancing of oneself from the…

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    Mary Shelley was Born on August 30th 1797. Her mother died shortly after her birth and father was left to care for her and her half sister Fanny Imlay. Mary’s half- sister is a daughter her mom had from an affair with a soldier. She loved reading as a kid (sometimes by her mother’s grave)as well as daydreaming and escaping from her challenging home and into imagination.Her father remarried to a woman named Mary Jane Clairmont who had two kids already.Later they had a boy together. Mary disliked…

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    In the times that Frankenstein is written, exploration and application of science is exploding along with developments in all aspects in Industrial Revolution. One dramatic event in scientific community at that time is the famous “vitalist debate” engaged by two medical professionals John Abernethy advocating vitalism and William Lawrence propagating materialism. Critics constantly assume what standpoint in the debate is Shelley taking by analyzing her main character “the Creature” in…

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    Frankenstein, a novel written by Mary Shelley, depicts a young man, Victor Frankenstein who creates a monster, only to realize he doesn’t like the look of the creature, therefore rejecting, and cursing it. This leads The Monster, who is considered to be of the male gender to begin to murder and hurt the individuals closest to Victor Frankenstein. Due to isolation, neglect, lack of intimacy and social rejection, Frankenstein’s creature, The Monster, was inspired to murder most of Frankenstein’s…

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