Abstract

The paper discusses about the work of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley in her book “Frankenstein”. This book reveals the story of a scientist who has the goal to create life, examining the limits of ethics. Through her work, she questions the liability issues of creativity, the attitude with which the intellectual ambition faces the unknown and reasonable limits to human action. It presents a resistance to changes that arise from the Industrial Revolution, which threatened a way of life doomed to disappear and discovered the danger of human power management based on technical and scientific exploitation excessive.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein

Introduction

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was about eighteen years old when she wrote the timeless classic Frankenstein. This paper is a brief analysis of the romantic lines in the work of Mary Shelley, with which they seek to establish the ideological and stylistic influences present in the work of this English novelist of the nineteenth century. A brief analysis of what Romanticism represented in England, to establish the connection of Frankenstein with the same and try to explain the critical and the underlying message in this novel will also be analyzed (Smith, , pp. 3-7).

When Mary was only fourteen years old, she met the young poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and flees to France with him. "Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus." was her first book and it was a remarkable achievement for the young author of 20 years old, as the novel became an instant critical and commercial success. None of Mary's later works achieved the popularity of the same level as Frankenstein, although she wrote four other novels, several travel books, stories and poems but they failed to achieve the Frankenstein's status.

Thesis Statement

The paper identifies the work of Shelly in “Frankenstein”. Has she done justice through her work in the book?

Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley born in London in 1797 was the daughter of William Godwin and the famous feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft, and she was also the wife of the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. When Mary was only fourteen years old, she met the young poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and flees to France with him. "Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus." was her first book and it was a remarkable achievement for the young author of 20 years old, as the novel became an instant critical and commercial success. None of Mary's later works achieved the popularity of the same level as Frankenstein, although she wrote four other novels, several travel books, stories and poems but they failed to achieve the Frankenstein's status.

The Romantic Movement

The Romantic Movement arose in Europe in the late eighteenth century as a reaction to Enlightenment rationalism, classicism, and continued until the mid-nineteenth century.

The appearance and formation of the theoretical-philosophical romantic phenomenon occurred under the influence of the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution. In the context of the consequences caused by the widespread breakage of ties with the past after the fall of the Old regime, and the social changes brought about by the gradual ...