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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus at Wikisource. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she ...
- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley
- 1818
This paper interprets the original 1818 version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. with the assumption that finding the story's power to both disturb and entertain is a key to finding why she wrote it. The novel she formed about her remarkable idea of a man-made creature appeals to the reader in two ways at the same time.
Mary Shelley's ground-breaking novel Frankenstein was one of the first gothic explorations of artificial life, telling a terrible tale of doomed scientist Victor Frankenstein who gives life to a hulking, unnamed 'Creature'. Here, Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn considers Shelley's inspirations for her creation and shares the legacy of the much-adapted work.
By summer, Clairmont was pregnant by Byron. Byron was bored. One evening, he announced, “We will each write a ghost story.”. Godwin began the story that would become “Frankenstein.”. Byron ...
As my parallel above suggests, one reason that Frankenstein remains such a relevant novel 200 years after its publication is that it encourages us to think about where ‘monsters’ come from. And, like Mary Shelley’s creation, such people are still people, or ‘Beings’. This is the unpalatable but unavoidable truth of Frankenstein as it ...
In the novel, Frankenstein creates life and thereby challenges God (instead of Zeus) and is punished by having his creation kill a number of his close relatives and friends, including his bride on their wedding night. Steel engraving frontispiece to the revised edition of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, 1831. Frankenstein instilled life in his ...
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Oct 26, 2017 · Mary Shelley combined science and the supernatural to write 'Frankenstein,' the world’s first science-fiction novel. Born on a dark and stormy night, Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus is a ...
