The short story " Transformation" by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is a confession of a man, who experiences supernatural adventure that completely changes his personality. One of the most important themes of the story is the struggle of good and evil in a soul of a person. This theme is topical at all times. Every person has his own sins, and he is able to estimate them only if he manages to take a detached view of himself. Happiness of a person depends on weather he is able to fight against dark side of his soul or not. Love and selfless feelings help him in this fight. To convey this theme successfully the author uses the concept of doppelganger. It helps her to develop the character of Guido (the narrator), and to divide his good and bad features. She stresses the importance of what the character sees through his own eyes, how he perceives himself and others around him.

In the beginning of the story the narrator characterizes himself as an extremely selfish, elate, careless person, who is not able to control his wild emotions and passions. He looses his fat

The theme of love is the central one in this story. For me it seems to be very complicated. I have a feeling that in the beginning of the story the narrator does not truly love Juliet. He easily leaves her in Genoa and goes traveling. He comes back in a while, but only because of his pride, he can not accept an idea that she might belong to someone else: "Another will call her his! - that smile of paradise will bless another!" His true feelings become clear to the reader only when he starts to fight the dwarf to save Juliet: "to-morrow my bride was to pledge her vows to a fiend from hell! And I did this! - my accursed pride - my democratic violence and wicked self-idolatry had caused this act." The real "transformation" of the character begins at the same moment. Being infirm and helpless it is easier for Guido to "transform" into a better person. At the darkest moment of his life he sees the dream that guides him to fight for his love: " What did it mean? was my dream but a mirror of the truth? was he wooing and winning my betrothed? I would on the instant back to Genoa..." He is sure that he wants to destroy the fiend, but at the same time it is hard for him to accept an idea that he has to kill his own body. His fear disappears when he sees Juliet with this terrible man, w

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