Mary Shelley began to write Frankenstein in the summer of 1816 and was heavily influenced by the social changes that were making their way across Europe. Shelley was obviously influenced by the idea of Romanticism and the importance of imagination and creativity and people such as her father William Godwin, who was a social and political journalist and mother Mary Wollstonecraft, who was one of the first feminists would have heavily influenced her. ... Shelley would have experienced the Luddite uprising and the Mill workers strike. ... Therefore Shelley subtitles her novel, The Modern Promethe...

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With his ego as an obstacle of his own understanding, Victor truly believes that his creation is for the benefit of mankind and the monster himself, in whom Victor will renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption (53). ... Victor's entire obsession with creating life is shrouded in secrecy, and his obsession with destroying the monster remains equally secret until Walton hears his tale. ... Shelley uses the story of Walton's quest as a frame for the story of Victor Frankenstein. While Victor praised his family and was quite concerned with their impressions ...

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