Frankenstein By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mary Shelley was a young, well-educated woman from England. She was born on August 30th 1797, in London. Her mother Mary Wollstonecraft, was the author of “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”. She died giving birth to Mary, leaving her daughter in the care of her husband, William Godwin. The atmosphere that Mary Shelley grew up in exposed her to cutting-edge ideas, which are shown all throughout the novel. Mary Shelley’s lover, Percy Shelley was a young poet, and as he was already married, her relationship with him wasn’t the smoothest.

The similarities between the poems lie in their abilities to utilize imagery as a means to enhance the concept of the fleeting nature that life ultimately has and to also help further elaborate the speaker’s opinion towards their own situation. In Keats’ poem, dark and imaginative images are used to help match with the speaker’s belief that both love and death arise from fate itself. Here, Keats describes the beauty and mystery of love with images of “shadows” and “huge cloudy symbols of a high romance” to illustrate his belief that love comes from fate, and that he is sad to miss out on such an opportunity when it comes time for his own death.

To go into further detail, Frankenstein explores the theme of man vs. monster, and what it truly means to be human. Parts of the book are narrated by the nameless creature

Frankenstein by Mary Shelly is a novel about Victor Frankenstein, who creates a hideous creature in an unusual scientific experiment. Frankenstein’s monster ends up getting revenge by killing Victor’s family and close friends, including his newlywed wife the night of their wedding. When Victor dies of exhaustion chasing down his creation, the monster pays a final farewell to him, saying that he will depart for the northernmost ice to die as well. In the interactive oral we discussed certain themes shows in the novel such as gothic and romance. Elements of the Gothic genre that are used in Frankenstein are mystery and supernatural activities. Gothic novels tend to take place in dark and gloomy places like castles, dungeons and towers to create

Moreover, not only did Shelley struggle as a female writer, she also experienced a turbulent upbringing. After her mother dies, her father William Godwin was doting to his little Mary. “The Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography,” expresses that Shelley’s attachment to her father was “intense and long lasting”. The bond Shelly formed with her father early in her life remained, despite the family dysfunction that began once her father remarried. The biography claims that “the new Mrs. Godwin resented Mary 's intense affection for her father and was jealous of the special interest visitors showed in the product of the union between the two most radical thinkers of the day (web).” Her step-mother purposefully distanced Godwin from his daughter. She did nothing to encourage “Shelley’s intellectual development or love of reading (web).” However, Shelley’s passions could not be distinguished rather her circumstances ignited her imagination.

Frankenstein was a scientist who created a creature that was very scary through a lab experiment. Victor Frankenstein was an ambitious scientist whose experiment was aimed at creating human beings from the cells of a dead person. He, however, created a monster, which haunted him to his death. Frankenstein was very scared of the creature to the point of abandoning it, but it kept following him and ended up destroying him and his family out of anger. Frankenstein is a science fiction, which incorporated human curiosity and scientific knowledge. This discussion shall focus on the similarities between Frankenstein and the monster.

Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley has made a lasting impression on literature through the ages. Written during the romanticism period, the novel had dark undertones and a twisted plot. The protagonist, Victor Frankenstein revealed how one’s relentless pursuit of knowledge can also be one’s downfall. Shelley wrote in both Victor and the creature’s point of view showing how both experienced destructive lives when fueled by the need for knowledge. As the story continued, she also wrote in a play by play sequence to highlight the consequences of Victor and the creatures actions.

this is reflected in the book. The book had a sub title - The Modern

One of the purposes that are displayed by Shelley’s particular writing style is the romanticizing of nature. This viewpoint is forced to be admired and spotlighted in human interactions as an example of a greater and bigger truth. “The immense mountains and precipices that overhung me on every side, the sound of the river raging among the rocks, and the dashing of the

that tells the story of a young science student Victor Frankenstein, who creates a horrifying, intelligent but foolish creature in a scientific experiment. The whole story of Frankenstein is full with different elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement, and is also considered to be one of the earliest examples of science

Shelley became an excellent reader at a young age because of a number of hours she spent in her father’s extensive library. Since her father’s library was so tremendous in size, she would often use it as a get-a-way place when she was annoyed by her family. While she was in her get-away place, she would often study literary works to improve her writing that way she can achieve success much easier when it was time to further her career.

When writing a novel, it is impossible for an author to not convey their political views. Mary Shelley, in particular, was the daughter of a feminist and an anarchist who had complicated perspectives on the role that a woman is supposed to fulfill. Her father, William Godwin, believed that social institutions corrupted people. He is considered a hypocrite because at the beginning of his relationship with Mary Wollaston Craft they were unmarried and had a child out of wedlock. When Mary Shelley met her future husband Percy Shelley he was married, so Mary and Percy were together without being married. William Godwin ceased all financial aid with Mary and decided not to interact with her anymore. This tumultuous relationship effected Mary Shelley greatly, and contributed to her twisted view on the role of women.

Gothic settings generally take place in gloomy sites in which serve as a framework for mysterious situations and therefore create more suspense. With vivid gothic elements, the author, Mary Shelley, is able to scare the reader to some extent. A significant gothic scene in the novel is when the monster is created and Victor Frankenstein describes how “It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils…the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out” (Shelly, 43). The description by Frankenstein sets a dark and gloomy mood and creates fear in the hearts of the readers as the monster awakens for the first time and no one knows how things will play out. It foreshadows the darkness to come later on in the novel. The dark, depressing and horror mood is further set by author’s use of stormy, rainy and thunder filled night settings. Another classic example of how the book is a gothic novel is the sign of raising the dead or resurrection. The scientist, Victor Frankenstein is concerned with bringing the dead back to life. With nervousness that practically advanced into agony, Victor Frankenstein “collected the instruments of life around [him] that [he] might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at [his] feet” (Shelley, 43). The scientist intends to use the body parts of the dead to create life and ends up creating a monster. The main character does this in order to ignite an eerie, bizarre feeling in the reader. Since gothic characteristics of a novel are also portrayed by death itself, the death of Victor Frankenstein’s mother, and the murder of Victor Frankenstein’s family members William, Justin, Henry and Elizabeth by the monster epitomizes gothic conventions in literature. By using gothic characteristics, the author was able to achieve suspense and to have the reader scared to some magnitude, wondering if

Mary Shelley was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She was born on August 30, 1797 in London, England. Mary was an only child to her mother, Mary Wollestonecraft, and father, William Godwin, but had a step sister, Fanny Imlay. Mary Wollestonecraft was a well-known philosopher and feminist. Her most famous piece of work was her A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). Shelley’s father was a political philosopher and a writer. He was an advocate for utilitarianism and anarchism. Eleven days after Shelley was born, her mother passed away. William Godwin raised his daughter, showering her with an untraditional,

The twenty-four old romantic poet John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” written in the spring of 1819 was one of his last of six odes. That he ever wrote for he died of tuberculosis a year later. Although, his time as a poet was short he was an essential part of The Romantic period (1789-1832). His groundbreaking poetry created a paradigm shift in the way poetry was composed and comprehended. Indeed, the Romantic period provided a shift from reason to belief in the senses and intuition. “Keats’s poem is able to address some of the most common assumptions and valorizations in the study of Romantic poetry, such as the opposition between “organic culture” and the alienation of modernity”. (O’Rourke, 53) The irony of Keats’s Urn is he likens