Category: Frankenstein

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Gothic Or Romantic Novel? The notion of Romanticism started to become prevalent in literature during the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century. In this essay, I will present the key ideas of Romanticism, offering close analysis to the novel Frankenstein. Romantic concepts and formal choices often revolve around empiricism, the nature…

Mary Shelley’s Critique of Romanticism in Frankenstein Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was written in 1817, in the midst of the Romantic Era. However, Shelley strayed away from the concepts of Romanticism and wrote Frankenstein as an anti-Romantic work. Four key concepts that Shelley negated in her work included the celebration of nature, the simple life, the…

Marry Shelleys Portrayal of Creature in Frankenstein Born into the world with a tabula rasa, the creature in Mary Shelleys Frankenstein enters life with innocence and potential. With no instinctive precept of life, the creature who is initially gentle and innocent, attempts to integrate himself into society, only to be rejected because of humanitys fear…

An Odyssey from Glory to Inhumanity: Frankenstein’s Pursuit of Knowledge The Perilous Pursuit in “Frankenstein” When divine lighting hits a tree, it never grows back the way it once was; It will always grow back rather anomalously and abnormally. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Doctor Victor Frankenstein epitomizes the struck tree. Frankenstein pursues the idea of…

Understanding Morality and Sympathy in ‘Frankenstein’ Mary Shelley Ethical Relativism and “Frankenstein” Ethical or moral relativism is a theory that is used to describe the way of thinking that morality is relative to the norms of one’s culture, meaning that action is wrong or right depending on the moral norms of the society it is…

A Comparative Analysis of Frankenstein and Edward Scissorhands Comparing Outcasts: Frankenstein and Edward Scissorhands In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands, both characters have been put in a place where they both don’t fit in and are rejected in many ways. They’re different from everyone else and are scary and vulnerable. Edward Scissorhands…

Exploring Literary Techniques and Symbolism in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Weather Imagery in “Frankenstein” In chapter ten of Thomas Foster’s book, ‘How to Read Literature Like a Professor,’ Foster discusses that rain or weather conditions are never just about the weather condition itself; there is always another purpose behind the use of this technique. Mary Shelley,…