By Mary Shelley

Mary Shelly's Frankenstein was written in a period of two years, starting in 1816, ending in 1818. It underwent multiple revisions after publishing, but its plot remained largely the same throughout the versions. Both Mary Shelly and her husband Percy Shelley contributed to the novel, Mary the prose, Percy the poetry.

This novel is famous on many levels: First, it is famous as one of the best pieces of horror fiction to this date. Secondly, it is famous as a monumental work by a woman. Finally, Frankenstein is one of the most brilliant social commentaries about the nineteenth century ever written.

Frankenstein paints a negative image of society and criticizes the innate nature of human beings. It emphasizes the technological progress of the 19th century, known as the Industrial Revolution, and contemplates the possible effects of advanced technology on the world.

Frankenstein's plot circulates about the tragedies caused by one scientist's obsession with creating life from death.

Robert Walton: A very versatile, although not very serious, man. Once a poet, he is

Frankenstein, with his advanced education, felt pressured to create something for the good of mankind in order to obtain fame. First pushed out of his favorite study of ancient philosophers by the college professors, (Once again, society determines what is fit or unfit to do!) he is then driven by the allure of fame to not disclose the creation of his beast, fearing that he would be ridiculed and hanged. Therefore, it was society that pressured him out of responsibility, and it was also society that pressured him to destroy his own creation.

Walton, after failing as a poet, feels pressured by himself and society to actually make something of himself. This is a romantic idea - the hero's noble, single pursuit of something. Indeed, it was society's pressures that kept Walton in pursuit of fame, first as a poet, then as a navigator-both rather glamorous callings, even though he wasn't cut out for either of them. He gives up on poetry due to failure and from navigation due to simple apprehension.

Both men find comfort in nature, allowing it to cool their depressions, raise their spirits. Walton finds his peace and purpose in exploring nature's structure by trying to find the Northwest Passage. Frankenstein travels to the mountains in order to ease his grief for the people that his monster killed. (William, Frankenstein's brother, and Justine, a young girl adopted into the Frankenstein household-she received the blame for William's murder instead of the monster.)

The only reason that the monster is hated by everyone in the novel is his outer appearance. The fact that little William Frankenstein screams and swears at the monster as soon as he sees it and the fact that villagers openly stoned and hunted a being that helped them with strenuous jobs show that society is fickle-outer physical appearances dictate social positions, and anything as ugly as the monster is automatically rejected. This hatred of the grotesque is very well exemplified by Frankenstein, who recoiled from his creation in disgust. Indeed, even when the monster promised to never again plague Frankenstein by his existence , Frankenstein can't bear the creation of yet another monste

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