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. This means that Shelley characterises mother-nature to be omnipotent throughout her novel. ... By using the metaphor of the curtain as the barrier between life and death, Baudelaire expresses his disappointment that God is not waiting to greet him on the other side by writing "I was waiting still". ... In the cases of...

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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, we see that Shelley is of the opinion that God and the world he created is omnipotent. This is perhaps due to the influence of the French Revolution and Romanticism in works of Shelley's time. ... Here "the screen" symbolises the barrier between life and death that Baudelaire counterintuitively chases in the poem. The line "I wa...

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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. ... This is a clear indication of how excessive pursuit of knowledge, as shown in Victor's relentless effort in creating life, can lead to isolation and distancing from society and the outside world. ... This scene clearly shows that the Monster innately knew that taking a life of a fellow being was morally wrong and that he possessed an intrinsic sense of right and wrong. ... Afterwards, the Monster feels...

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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. ... In the pursuit of creating life, Victor was "animated by an almost supernatural enthusiasm" to observe the "corruption of the human body" and examining the nature of death. ... 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 scientific developments and technologies are contin...

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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. ... Therefore Shelley subtitles her novel, The Modern Promethe...

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