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    the 18th century. The Age of Enlightenment was a time when the brain was valued above all else and anything relating to emotions was scoffed at as society abandoned religion and installed the scientific method as its new god. During this time, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley was published. Shelley used her two main characters to exemplify both sides of intelligence; the scientist, the ideal, rational intellectual; the monster, the cast-off, emotional outsider. Shelley uses the characters to devise a

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    Influences on Victorian gothic literature; religion, psychology, science and spirituality. Many great authors such as Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker indulged in the world of the supernatural with gothic novels such as Dracula and Frankenstein. However the origins of such tales and the Victorian obsession with the paranormal are not commonly explored. The gothic genre in fact dates back as far as 1765. The classic English gothic novel began with the author Horace Walpole and his novel, “The Castle

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    Mary Shelley Challenges Society in Frankenstein        Romantic writer Mary Shelley’s gothic novel Frankenstein does indeed do a lot more than simply tell story, and in this case, horrify and frighten the reader. Through her careful and deliberate construction of characters as representations of certain dominant beliefs, Shelley supports a value system and way of life that challenges those that prevailed in the late eighteenth century during the ‘Age of Reason’. Thus the novel can be said to

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    is sending to the world in the writing of Frankenstein is, do not judge a book by its cover. The Creature was a gentle giant, who would not have hurt a fly. He was kind, gentle, and just wanted to be loved. But because of his appearance on the outside the world was afraid of him. Victor Frankenstein was wrong in creating the Creature, because creating a person with human and animal body parts makes the Creature look like a monster. The book of Frankenstein is considered by many to be considered feminist

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    Shelley’s Frankenstein written in 1818, but also at the center of modern controversy over the expansion of scientific and technological innovation. Scholars such as Shelley question how far innovation

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    “Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?” ― John Milton, Paradise Lost In Mary Shelley's, Frankenstein, she develops that scientific knowledge is dangerous as it places man above god and destroys his morals. In all, Frankenstein is a book about a man who attempts to exceed the boundaries of science and life by bringing a person back to life and actually creating a monster. Shelly develops this argument through many

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    Despite the absolutes that come with science and its creations, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein illuminates the inhumanity and morality of society in her story . It will dependably be there to fill us with joy and sorrow. Society judges everything that is great or terrible, rich or poor, typical or abnormal. Although some of these are precise most are misguided judgments. In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley this demonstration of blundering by society is to a great degree obvious. Society which should be

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    Mary Shelley 's writings have losses and gains similar to her own. In her writings, Shelley would take a theme that was evident in her own life and apply them to her writings. “Mary Shelley, in her second novel [Valperga] as well as in her first [Frankenstein], is interested in taking up the theme of ambition and exploring the emotional cost it exacts” (Walling 289). By exploring these emotional costs, Mary Shelley used this as a representative of her own life. She was very daring in taking off with

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    The novel, Frankenstein, deals with a lot of concepts like the meaning of being human, the effect of society on people, and the manipulation of nature. The most interesting thing about the book is the two main characters the story revolves around, Victor Frankenstein and his creature. Victor is an extremely selfish character only thinking about how certain things would affect him and not others, you could say victor was a very complex character in the way his mind was set up he is always looking

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    Romanticism versus Enlightenment has been discussed since the beginning of the seventeenth century, and has while it has now evolved into the debate between Nature Vs. Nurture, in 1816, it manifested itself as Henry Clerval vs. Victor Frankenstein, in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Clerval is a Romantic to the core, paralleling against how science is fundamentally ingrained in Frankenstein’s personality. In the novel, Clerval’s lack of a masculine scientific nature, places him in an effeminate role of nursing

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