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. ... One major difference between Naturalism and Romanticism is that while the Romantics believed that they were "driven- by a higher spirit inside of them, Naturalists denied this idea. ...
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. She comprised a story of many original and imaginative ideas which came solely from her boundless individual imagination. She incorporat...
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov and The Collector by John Fowles, is an assertion of the power of spirit of love and obsession, but not as a natural, pure feeling. It is obsession that goes beyond control and regulation, obsession that in one way or another leads into the destruction of many human beings...
