The failed French Revolution and Industrial Revolution seriously mark the novel with hints of moral and scientific revolution. Through Frankenstein, Shelley sends out a clear message that morally irresponsible scientific development can unleash a monster that will destroy its creator. ... Shelly reflects her dislike of the scientific process with her depiction of the scientist Victor Frankenstein. ... Frankenstein believes that through these new scientific powers human kind would be served with a positive effect. ... For Frankenstein death and decay have no morality as the process is merely sc...

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In Frankenstein, Shelley explores the transgression of the natural order in the Romantic ideal by humanity's ongoing pursuit of progress and knowledge, a consequence of the Enlightenment Era and the Industrial Revolution. ... Thus, Shelley criticizes the human tendency to disregard nature in favor of the pursuit of scientific discovery. ... This criticises scientists who utilised scientific advancements such as Galvanism for self-serving motives. ... This presents the wider Romantic concern that the Industrial Revolution, in its mechanisation of society exemplified in the textiles indu...

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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. ... The Monster in Frankenstein is a representation of the rapid scientific developments evident in the early 1800's. The early 19th Century was a time of great technological and scientific advancement. ... This scientific discovery, and others similar to it, would have had a significant impact on society at the time. ... The French revolution embraced the human right to three main ideologies: liberty, equality and...

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, originally published in 1818 with a second edition published in 1831, although assigned to the Romantic period of literature1798-1832, surpasses her contemporaries by its complexity of themes, scientific and religious pragmatism, as well as social commentaries embedded deep within. ... It could be said that in the time after the scientific revolution or the age of reflection influenced her in the way of the mad scientist creating life and tempering in the realm of god. ... The eighteen year old writer sat amazed by the conversations between her friends and the...

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Mary Shelley's gothic, seminal science fiction text "Frankenstein" depicts the enlightening scientific world during the Industrial Revolution, where its frame narrative cautions about the negative connotations involved with unnatural science. ... " Shelley contrasts the scientific revolution to the aftermath of technology portrayed in "Blade Runner", as these mutual texts in time reflect differing contexts of similar human experiences and values. ...

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Even the scientific creation of humans is becoming more acceptable as research progresses. ... Knowledge of Mary Shelley's view on the industrial revolution shines light on the reasoning of, and how the characters are constructed. Mary Shelley's view on the industrial revolution significantly contributes to the manner of how Frankenstein's creation is constructed. ... Being the industrial revolution at the time of Mary Shelley's work the society would have been exposed to many different cultures for the first time. Africans were being imported as slave and other cultu...

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However, the only notable use for his knowledge other than the creature was Frankenstein's improvements of his college's scientific equipment. ... Rauch, Frankenstein "rejects the central tenets of scientific practice: application, dissemination, or exchange" (Rauch III. ... During the European Industrial Revolution, in which Frankenstein is set, people feared science at times because it progressed faster than they could understand. ...

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He is a product not of collaborative scientific effort but of dark, supernatural workings.cobb bbr sebbbbw orbb bbk inbb fobb bb: The monster is only the most literal of a number of monstrous entities in the novel, including the knowledge that Victor used to create the monster (see "Dangerous Knowledge"). ... As noted earlier, Walton's expedition to the North Pole and Victor's scientific accomplishment are both the products of artistic creation and Romantic idealism. In fact, it is important to note that Walton's quest too, had scientific implications. ... This project from w...

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The industrial revolution, which took place in 1789 changed and revolutionised the productive capacity of Europe and transformed European society and was a social revolution with social causes and social affects. ... During the time of Frankenstein writers were increasingly writing about the power of the imagination and of creativity, there was a romantic view of the imagination and creativity, and the mind's power to create something out of chaos, for example the Miller's strike and the industrial revolution. ... Frankenstein is the main character, a man driven by ambition and scien...

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Along with the Industrial Revolution arose the belief that mechanical principles governed all phenomena, from the movement of the planets to the beating of a heart. By the nineteenth century, the major scientific thinkers, following Descartes, were proclaiming that all of nature was one vast machine. ...

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