Shelley was born in London in 1797, daughter of famous radical writers Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin; both of whom exemplified the ideologies of the French revolution. ... The Monster in Frankenstein is a representation of the rapid scientific developments evident in the early 1800's. The early 19th Century was a time of great technological and scientific advancement. ... This scientific discovery, and others similar to it, would have had a significant impact on society at the time. ... The French revolution embraced the human right to three main ideologies: liberty, equality and...

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Even the scientific creation of humans is becoming more acceptable as research progresses. ... Knowledge of Mary Shelley's view on the industrial revolution shines light on the reasoning of, and how the characters are constructed. Mary Shelley's view on the industrial revolution significantly contributes to the manner of how Frankenstein's creation is constructed. ... Being the industrial revolution at the time of Mary Shelley's work the society would have been exposed to many different cultures for the first time. Africans were being imported as slave and other cultu...

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The industrial revolution, which took place in 1789 changed and revolutionised the productive capacity of Europe and transformed European society and was a social revolution with social causes and social affects. ... During the time of Frankenstein writers were increasingly writing about the power of the imagination and of creativity, there was a romantic view of the imagination and creativity, and the mind's power to create something out of chaos, for example the Miller's strike and the industrial revolution. ... Frankenstein is the main character, a man driven by ambition and scien...

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Along with the Industrial Revolution arose the belief that mechanical principles governed all phenomena, from the movement of the planets to the beating of a heart. By the nineteenth century, the major scientific thinkers, following Descartes, were proclaiming that all of nature was one vast machine. ...

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