Similarly, we see that Baudelaire shares a similar opinion of women in his literature, however conversely he chooses to characterise them as powerful and superior to men. ... So it can be seen that both Baudelaire and Shelley depict women as beautiful and important in their literature, however they chose emphasise this importance by characterising them in two different ways. ... This is perhaps due to the influence of the French Revolution and Romanticism in works of Shelley's time. ...

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 Gothic literature explores the natural human sensation of helplessness in the face of the unknown. By comparing Frankenstein with at least one other Gothic text, discuss this view of Gothic literature.' ... Furthermore, Victor's sudden recovery from the severe shock he suffered can be linked the concept of romanticism as Victor says "It was a divine spring". ...

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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. ... Romanticism began in the early nineteenth century and dramatically changed the way people saw themselves and nature around them. The Romantic Movement marked the practice and reaction in literature, art, religion and politics. Romanticism, which was a reaction to the classicism of the early 18th ...

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The most noticeable genres of literature describe in Shelly's novel are the Gothic term and the Science Fiction term. ... They reaches the height of their considerable fashion in the 1790`s and the early years of the 19th century- (Oxford Companion to English Literature, p. 405-06). ... The Gothic goal was to rebelliously assail the secrets of Heaven, whereas, in Shelley, Nature is being penetrated in a wanton act of assumption and pride. 2 On the other hand we notice the Science Fiction:- the current name for a class of prose narrative which assumes an imaginary technological or sci...

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