Mary Shelley was born of a mother who was a strong supporter of the French Revolution. ... Therefore, instead of favoring cities and places high in industrious growth, Mary Shelley and other romantics favored more rural areas. ... This is because Mary Shelley set out to express her Romantic ideals. ... In all, Mary Shelley uses the monster to depict of what could happen, on an extreme scale, when man tries to play God. ... Concluding, Mary Shelley was exposed to just the wright amount of aspirations along with being at the wright place at the wright time. ...

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In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley examines the question of nature verses nurture. ... The fall of the creature in Frankenstein corresponds with Rousseau's theory. ... Mary Shelley cleverly blended Rousseau's views on natural man into Frankenstein in order to demonstrate society distorts the concept of what 'is natural'. ... Although the being that Frankenstein creates is called unnatural and a 'monster'; until he is exposed to society he is more natural than Frankenstein himself. While at first glance Shelley's novel appears to be an account of a monster terro...

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This is most notable when examining Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal (1857) and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1817). ... In Frankenstein, we see Shelley convey her Romantic religious view that man can never overcome the divine and sublime power of nature. ... In Frankenstein, Shelley addresses this issue with irony by characterising women to be passive and almost docile, making the comment that a society that undervalues women can only end in a tragedy akin to that of Frankenstein. ... The effect of this is that the reader is left without a morsel of doubt in the fact that women...

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Romantic writer Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein conforms to these conventional "classic" Gothic traits as well as to the modern conceptions of what is considered as Gothic. ... The strongest feature, which identifies Shelley's Frankenstein as a classic gothic novel, is the creation of the creature itself. ... Frankenstein's creature is a wondering figure who seeks for acceptance. ... In this aspect, it could be said that Shelley is also showing her Romantic conservatism. ... Just like Mary Shelley in the 19th Century, the modern society is living in an age where scienti...

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Frankenstein (1817) by Mary Shelley and Les Fleurs du Mal (1957) by Charles Baudelaire can both be considered timeless in the eyes of contemporary society as they both discuss social issues that continue to be significant today. ... In Frankenstein, Shelley depicts women as beautiful however she characterises them to be passive and submissive members of society, implying that a society that undervalues women can only end in ruins. This can be seen when Elizabeth is describing Justine to Victor Frankenstein, stating that she is "very clever and gentle and extremely pretty". ... In Fra...

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Mary Shelley began to write Frankenstein in the summer of 1816 and was heavily influenced by the social changes that were making their way across Europe. 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. ... Shelley would have experienced the Luddite uprising and the Mill workers strike. ... Shelley makes a point therefore that even though people ma...

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However, Mary Shelley, in her novel "Frankenstein," argues that the pursuit of knowledge can be dangerous, and if pursued relentlessly can cause the pursuers isolation from society. ... Education can be salvation for some, but for others it can also become an obsession which can drive them to their own destruction, as seen in the case of Victor Frankenstein. ... After the Monster is created, Frankenstein first looks at it with admiration and love but subsequently realises how ugly and grotesque the Monster is and immediately rejects him. ... Upon learning that William is a Frankenstein; the Mo...

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