Shelley includes references to Percy Shelley's poems and other Romantic poems such as the 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Milton's 'Paradise Lost', the references to these show to the reader the Romantic view of the importance of emotions and the imagination, and also the importance of the individual. ... During the novel Shelley uses this idea for the character Victor Frankenstein, who dares to use his imagination to create something real. ... Frankenstein is the main character, a man driven by ambition and scientific curiosity. ... F...

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