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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