Mary Shelley might have used religion reference as a method of showing us how something that happened during the creation of the earth can be related and brought to us via modern day fantasy creations. ... Power is another key element used by Mary Shelley in her novel, which helps us even more to uncover the aforementioned biblical relationships. ... From a different aspect, Mary Shelley may in fact be trying to say something about God and the devil using Victor and the monster rather than the obvious other way around. ... Mary Shelley was surrounded by death as a youngster and she may have re...

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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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Mary Shelley's gothic novel Frankenstein is a tale of an ambitious scientist who succeeds in creating life from deceased body parts. ... The creature turns out to be a disfigured being, whom Frankenstein considers a monster and ultimately abandons. ... Frankenstein's creation, although considered a monster, exhibits human emotions and wishes to love and to be loved. ... " (Shelley 135). ... " (Shelley 145). ...

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Her tendency to resort to injury and pain as a form of emotional expression is a predisposition for mental illness that is also seen in Victor of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Victor gains a sense of power when he watches worms and insects feast on deceased creatures and he finds pleasure in "torturing living animals to animate the lifeless clay, " (Shelley 40). ... This hideous form of eluding responsibility is reenacted by Victor who upon seeing his horrific creation hover over his bed plunges into "a nervous fever which confines him for several months, " (Shelley 47). ...

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Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, sheds light on the eternal illusory and importance of appearance through the tale of an unwanted creation that is never given a chance. ... The semi- gothic novel includes several instances of societal prejudice that include the isolation and outcast of Frankenstein's creation, the creature's biased opinion of the cottagers, and the unbalanced and inappropriate classification of Victor. ... Frankenstein himself refers to his own creation as, " the life which I had so thoughtlessly bestowed" (88). ... He sheds light on the disagreement betwe...

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein explores many aspects of the conscious and unconscious mind. Shelley uses light and dark throughout the novel to symbolize the duality of the mind, a representation of Victor's conscious and unconscious mind. ... Ignoring the criticisms of his own Father, Victor tells himself, "I could banish disease from the human frame and render man invulnerable, " "the raising of ghosts or devils was a promise liberally accorded by my favorite authors" (Shelley 46). ... Victor's arrested development is discussed in David Collings" essay, The Monster and the "Ma...

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