Walton says that Victor showed letters and that W. saw the monster, to lend credibility to the story. ... Shelley uses the story of Walton's quest as a frame for the story of Victor Frankenstein. ... This hypothesis from www.coursework.info It is the similarities between the stories of Walton and Victor that allow them to be so readily compared and analyzed. ... In contrast to Walton, Victor's story seems to be a warning against a disengagement from the feminine. ...

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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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