In Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," isolation is a key theme that reveals the importance of community. Shelley's personal life had a considerable impact on her work. ... As he leaves his family, the tragedies in his life begin. ... However, after the reunion with Safie, the family regain energy and vigor for life. ... Although the novel was originally created as a horror story, Shelley parallels her life events eventually showing that isolation brings the downfall of any being, man or creature. ...

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Mary Shelley's gothic novel Frankenstein is a tale of an ambitious scientist who succeeds in creating life from deceased body parts. ... Throughout the course of his life, the creature experiences various feelings of happiness, joy and excitement. ... The absence of love from his creator causes the creature to commit acts of evil and wreak havoc in Victor's life. ... " (Shelley 135). ... " (Shelley 145). ...

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In the 21st century, Mary Shelly's Frankenstein can be viewed as a modern myth. ... This punishment was necessary because in the time of Shelley the possibility of creating life, at all, none the less a successful loving creature was too far from reality to be considered anything but fantasy. People were still in the mind set that God was the only creator; therefore, Mary Shelley could not fathom anything but disaster coming from Victor playing God. ... However, because Shelley's time believed that only God could create life the life that was created in the monster was doomed ...

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Frankenstein Unbelievably Mary Shelley wrote the novel Frankenstein at the age of eighteen. ... To create life Victor had to use the bodies of dead humans. ... Mary Shelley is a great example of a writer who is the product of the Romantic era. The major characteristic of Romanticism that Mary Shelley uses is the examination of senses and inner feelings. ... Clearly you can see that Mary Shelley was successful in creating a Gothic novel that includes elements of Romanticism. ...

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Romantic writer Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein conforms to these conventional "classic" Gothic traits as well as to the modern conceptions of what is considered as Gothic. ... In the pursuit of creating life, Victor was "animated by an almost supernatural enthusiasm" to observe the "corruption of the human body" and examining the nature of death. ... In this aspect, it could be said that Shelley is also showing her Romantic conservatism. ... Just like Mary Shelley in the 19th Century, the modern society is living in an age where scientific developments and technologies are contin...

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In the novel "Frankenstein," written by English novelist, Mary Shelley, a scientist plays "God" and has to pay the consequences. ... Shelley shows the reader how irresponsible Victor is, and how little he thinks of the consequences for his actions. ... Victor brings life to the monster. Shelley has solidified this novel into a science fiction novel; by having this supernatural event where victor gives life to a monster. ... Shelley effectively was able to combine a gothic, romantic, and science fiction novel to create a masterpiece. ...

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is filled with various underlying themes, the crux being the effect society has on The Creature's personality. ... God breathed life into Adam and created him in his own image and likeness. ... Victor, a flawed version of God, made the mistake of abandoning his "son" at birth, and continuing to shun him the rest of his life. ... Mary Shelley used a deep, gothic theme to get several different points across, and made it interesting by paralleling the main characters with the characters of a well- known story....

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In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the main characters are determined to learn as much as they can. ... 'Hateful day when I received life!' ... He realizes Victor regrets the day he gave him life. ... As a result Shelley uses Victor's characterization to employ how obtaining too much intelligence can have negative outcomes by his knowledge of being able to create life negatively ruined his life. ... For Victor, if he had not learned to create life he would not have had all the problem that creating life brought him. ...

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"I suddenly beheld the figure of a man, at some distance, advancing towards me with superhuman speed,"" (Shelley 120). ... Sparky is able to be rejuvenated with only electricity and the animated sea monkeys and Shelley grow to sizes many times their own. ... All did not go according to Victor's hopes and dreams, and this event is what caused Victor's life to spiral into the depressed and lonely state that it did. ... In the book, Frankenstein, the monster warns Victor that he will "glut the maw of death, until it (is} satiated with the blood of (his) remaining friends," (Shelley 121)...

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Frankenstein perfectly fits the description of both a Romantic and a Gothic Horror. Mary Shelley uses her great writing style as her monster evolves. Frankenstein wanders around the country, leaving a path of death and destruction in its wake. The story is also helped by the need for the monster ...

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A very good example of this type of literature is Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. ... When the scene switches to the life of Victor Frankenstein, the reader finds out that everything is wonderful throughout his childhood. ... He is made of body parts sewn together and somehow brought to life. ... He is built from dead body parts that have been sewn together by Victor to create new life. ... Not only did Mary Shelly include all these things, she added a few to make the story even more interesting. ...

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After analyzing both Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, it is quite apparent that Victor Frankenstein and Dorian Gray's narcissism cause much evil, death, and destruction. ... As one inherently possesses narcissistic qualities, they will cause evil to arise, as we are able to see throughout the gothic and the literary works of Oscar Wilde and Mary Shelley. ... After learning about Harry's philosophy on life, Dorian then solely focuses on his beauty, which is his true pleasure in life. ... Dorian placed all his attention onto his beauty...

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