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. Also her husband Percy Shelley wrote a number of poems and was greatly into the Romantic Movement. Shelley includes references to Percy Shelley...

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Is it true that the monster is treacherous? Walton says that Victor showed letters and that W. saw the monster, to lend credibility to the story. Victor had thought to be useful, but without due consideration to values. Epic hero: "the greatness of his fall." Victor's speech: we do something not bec...

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