In Anne Mellor's work, "Approaches to Teaching Shelley's Frankenstein," published in 1990, Mellor states: Above all, Mary Shelley associated her modern Prometheus with Percy Shelley, who had already announced his desire to compose an epic rebuttal to Aeschylus" Prometheus Bound when he reread the play in 1816, although he did not begin writing Prometheus Unbound until September 1818, after Frankenstein was published. (72) It is clear upon close examination that indeed several dimensions of Victor Frankenstein are modeled directly from Percy Shelly. ... By sending Victor to...

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Shelley was born in London in 1797, daughter of famous radical writers Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin; both of whom exemplified the ideologies of the French revolution. ... Thus it is not unusual that, as the product of such revolutionary parents, Mary Shelley would harbour the same feminist and Romantic ideologies and subsequently challenge the ideologies of the patriarchal society in which she lived. ... Shelly, in presenting Frankenstein as a product of his social and historical context, is able to explore the consequences thereof. ... This implicit cultural desire to obtain an e...

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Later, in Italy, after he had lost his wife, Mary, and his 3 children, he began to accept his self-imposed exile, as he branded as an immoralist, an atheist and political subversive by British opinion. ... According to these beliefs, we can imply that that Shelly advocated the spirit of revolution and the power of free thought. ... Shelly, here, emphasized the dreadful image of Anarchy as it was born on earth purely for the sake of destruction. ...

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