For one to be a romantic one must first have the freedom of self expression and that indeed was what Mary Shelley possessed as she wrote her novel, Frankenstein. ... His mother's life was taken away, so now he wanted to play god and create life, and he did. ... Similar to Victor, Mary Shelley's mother died when Mary was an infant. ... In reality, everything in the novel revolves around what Mary Shelley thinks and wants to do in order to make her romantic novel successful. ... These fantasies came at a time when romanticism was just evolving and Mary Shelley went out on a limb, e...

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• Grade Level: High School

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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The poem portrays women looking at life only through a mirror. ... Mary Wollstonecraft started the chain of events. She was one of the first women noticed for her writings and then passed her talent on to her daughter Lipke3 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, who made great strides as a writer also at this time. ... Mary Shelley shows how our obsessions draw light upon us in two ways. ... The sweeper almost inevitably would have died before he even knew how to live life. ...

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However, Mary Shelley, in her novel "Frankenstein," argues that the pursuit of knowledge can be dangerous, and if pursued relentlessly can cause the pursuers isolation from society. ... This is a clear indication of how excessive pursuit of knowledge, as shown in Victor's relentless effort in creating life, can lead to isolation and distancing from society and the outside world. ... This scene clearly shows that the Monster innately knew that taking a life of a fellow being was morally wrong and that he possessed an intrinsic sense of right and wrong. ... Afterwards, the Monster feels...

• Word Count: 1525
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He was born with a clubfoot that was a problem for him the first decade of his life. ... It is easy to assume this experience affected his attitude towards women for the rest of his life. ... Here he became friends with the famous poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and Shelley's "crew," which included Shelley's wife, Mary, William Godwin, and Godwin's stepdaughter, Claire Clairmont. ... This is said to be one of the happiest and productive times in his life. ... Now Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, and the Hunt family all moved to a suburb of Genoa, where Teresa's family was now stay...

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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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

During the time that Frankenstein was written (1818), Romanticism was the dominant literary period, and much of the Romantic philosophy can be seen in Mary Shelley's novel. ... Her nature (desire for sex) took control of her life. ... However, Mary Shelley was well educated by her father, and wrote a novel that included ideas that only well educated people could understand. ... When the monster came to life, it was raining in the middle November. ... Mary Shelley wrote a scary story about unusual events. ...

• Word Count: 1913
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He lived a very humble, honest, and most self-sacrificing life. He never married, but devoted himself to the care of his sister Mary, ten years his senior, who was subject to mental fits, in one of which she had fatally wounded her mother. ... Though his essays are all criticisms or appreciations of the life of his age and literature, they are all intensely personal. ... Though he often starts with some purely personal mood or experience he gently leads the reader to see life as he saw it, without ever being vain or self-assertive. ... For Shelley, poetry was not the product of "labor and...

• Word Count: 1952
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