One of the great things about Literature is that it is influenced by the time period that it was written in. ... This change in the attitude of the people was called Romanticism and it was one of the most important periods in history for literature. ... The beliefs of Victor are in science and the known world, which is just the opposite of Romanticism. ... Shelley uses Romanticism in the book when she shows that the monster is only evil because of the circumstances that is why his aggression is released. ... Frankenstein is a classic example of English Romanticism that has become a classic...

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Frankenstein remains one of the greatest examples of Gothic literature. ... The major characteristic of Romanticism that Mary Shelley uses is the examination of senses and inner feelings. ... Clearly you can see that Mary Shelley was successful in creating a Gothic novel that includes elements of Romanticism. ...

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Shelley was obviously influenced by the idea of Romanticism and the importance of imagination and creativity and people such as her father William Godwin, who was a social and political journalist and mother Mary Wollstonecraft, who was one of the first feminists would have heavily influenced her. ... Romanticism began in the early nineteenth century and dramatically changed the way people saw themselves and nature around them. The Romantic Movement marked the practice and reaction in literature, art, religion and politics. Romanticism, which was a reaction to the classicism of the early 18th ...

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The most noticeable genres of literature describe in Shelly's novel are the Gothic term and the Science Fiction term. ... They reaches the height of their considerable fashion in the 1790`s and the early years of the 19th century- (Oxford Companion to English Literature, p. 405-06). ... The Gothic goal was to rebelliously assail the secrets of Heaven, whereas, in Shelley, Nature is being penetrated in a wanton act of assumption and pride. 2 On the other hand we notice the Science Fiction:- the current name for a class of prose narrative which assumes an imaginary technological or sci...

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Shelley received astounding education in science, literature, and philosophy from her father (Discovering Authors 3). ... Romanticism promoted the idea that humanity is connected to nature, and encouraged scientific discovery because acquiring knowledge of nature increased the understanding of humanity as well. ...

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