"That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong"" (F. Scott Fitzgerald). In the novel "Frankenstein," written by English novelist, Mary Shelley, a scientist plays "God" and has to pay t...

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During the time that Frankenstein was written (1818), Romanticism was the dominant literary period, and much of the Romantic philosophy can be seen in Mary Shelley's novel. ... One major difference between Naturalism and Romanticism is that while the Romantics believed that they were "driven- by a higher spirit inside of them, Naturalists denied this idea. ...

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