Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein contains an interesting blend of writing styles and genres. Its complexity becomes extremely apparent when one attempts to classify this novel. This is due to the numerous content of which Frankenstein includes. Frankenstein is a novel composed in the eighteenth century and has often been considered by critics as a “phenomenon of popular culture” (“Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley.”15). Some aspects of this novel include gothic fiction, science fiction, and fantasies of all kinds. There are also many elements of romance including components of lust. For example, the question exists whether the sexy villain would rather rape or murder the heroine. The gothic elements include Victor's interest is the supernatural and his use of science, particularly chemistry to support this. Shelley also uniquely used double fiction in her novel. This a technique that links two characters together as essentially the same character. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstei!n is a difficult book to classify but there are some specific genres that appear in it such as Gothic Fiction, Romanticism, and the theory of doubles. Mary Shelley’s family tells the entire story of who she is. She was born o
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Approximate Word count = 1902
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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