Author, Mary Shelley lived in an era where technology and the idea of science were beginning to rise. ... Electricity was becoming a worldwide phenomenon and Mary Shelley knew this was something amazing. ... Mary Shelley's story, Frankenstein, did more than scare them all, but it became this idea for Mary. Mary Shelley was not aware of just how far her book would end up going. ... In Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein', Victor Frankenstein expresses the possibility of achieving immortality and perfection by creating endless-life through scientific experimentation. ...

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As Mary Shelley amply demonstrates throughout the novel, it is not the attainment of knowledge that is "bad" or immoral, but the ways in which knowledge is used by those who possess it. ... Frankenstein reflects, "I was capable of a more intense application, and was more deeply smitten with the thirst for knowledge" (Shelley 38). ... They ascend into the heavens: they have discovered how the blood circulates and the nature of the air we breathe (Shelley 49). ... Because of his early fascination with alchemy, Frankenstein scorns the need for them, claiming, "I was re...

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In her novel, "Frankenstein," Mary Shelley weaves multiple perspectives together in order to give the reader a chance to judge the conflict from all possible sides. ... When Victor Frankenstein was young, he was interested in science and how things work. ... Mary Shelley, a romantic, wrote this story to juxtapose the temperaments of nature and man. Shelley's subdued comparison of the two shows who the true monster of the world really is. Victor Frankenstein and his monster are merely victims of their society. ...

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Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, is a book about a man named Victor Frankenstein. ... Victor Frankenstein grew up in a town called Geneva. ... Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, was an amazing book. Mary Shelley did a great job of keeping the story interesting enough to keep me reading. ... Victor Frankenstein cared so much for furthering science, and did not realize the consequences when one plays with life and death. ...

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In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein this is a recurring theme. ... The quote from the bible directly relates to the events that occur in Frankenstein. ... In Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," a character named Doctor Victor Frankenstein is obsessed with his pursuit of knowledge. ... Just as in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, today's "impossible" sciences are highly researched and sought after. ... Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" did more than telling a story. ...

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Mary Shelley's gothic, seminal science fiction text "Frankenstein" depicts the enlightening scientific world during the Industrial Revolution, where its frame narrative cautions about the negative connotations involved with unnatural science. ... " Like Victor in "Frankenstein", oppression clouds realism in the corporate powered society by questioning what it is to be human and the effect of human experience. ... In "Frankenstein," Victor's morally ambiguous "Monster" seeks justice and understanding to his senseless existence, where repeti...

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How can we think of Frankenstein and ignore the film classic of 1931? Yet the celebrated film does not follow the novel by Mary Shelley. ... In the novel Frankenstein tells no one of his experiments and worked alone. ... Mary Shelley does not leave the monster's murderous nature to a simple error in brain selection; instead it is the result of his neglect. ... In her novel, Mary Shelley anticipated the problem of a destructive force created by man, a force with no genuine means of control. ...

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was written during a period of dramatic change. ... Through Frankenstein, Shelley sends out a clear message that morally irresponsible scientific development can unleash a monster that will destroy its creator. ... Mary Shelly wrote Frankenstein at a time when scientific thought processes were beginning to give way to a less empirical style of thought, one that Shelly saw as being more harmonious with nature and one with fewer disregards for morality and religion. ... (Shelly, p. 69) Shelley characterizes Frankenstein as a modern a "mad scientist." ... (...

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The major theme in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is the great emphasis placed on appearance and acceptance in society. In modern society as well as in the society of Frankenstein, people judge one solely on their appearance. ... In Frankenstein, the society of that time is similar to our own today. ... Racism is an obvious similarity between Frankenstein's society to modern-day. ... The creator of the monster, Victor Frankenstein, also passes his view based only on appearance. ...

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In my opinion this theme of man's search for knowledge ultimately leading to "fall" of humanity is also present in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. ... Victor Frankenstein is obsessed with the attainment of knowledge and trying to immortalize himself through an endeavor. ... Frankenstein is forced to leave his garden of Europe and travels to the desolate lands of the arctic. ... If Adam did not have Eve, I wonder if he would have ended up as wretched as Frankenstein's creature? ... Could the eviction of Adam and Eve from Eden be seen as a parallel to the abandonment of Frankenste...

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From the moment of his "birth," the Creature in Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," is shunned by humans because of his repugnant looks. His creator/father, Victor Frankenstein, disavows his creation because of his ugliness, abandoning the frightened Creature to learn and wander on his own. ... The first time the Creature interacts with a human besides Frankenstein, the human is startled by the Creature's ugliness and flees from the his sight, while the Creature is enchanted by the human's form: An old man sat in it [the cabin], near a fire, over which he was preparing his breakfas...

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