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Mary Shelley
LIFE
Family
Born in a family with radical ideas
Mom: Mary Woolston
Dad: William Godwin
life marked by many deaths
Dead 1851
Born 1797
For a competition she wrote
FRANKESTEIN
Wrote in 1818
Origine
Wrote in
Switzerland
Subtitle
The modern Prometheus
Because (as Frankestein did) Prometheus challenged
Zeus (The scientist challenged god)
Title
Frankestein
It is the scientist's name
Plot
Frankenstein tells the story of gifted scientist Victor Frankenstein who succeeds in giving life to a being of his own creation. However, this is not the perfect specimen he imagines that it will be, but rather a hideous creature who is rejected by Victor and mankind in general.
Themes
Forbidden science
Overcoming of natural and divine rules
Social prejudices (the monster as an outcast)
Education and experience (the monster developement)
The overcoming of natural and divine rules
The figure of the overreacher
Doppelgaenger
Charatters
Victor Frankestein
He is the creator of the monster
The creature
Represents
The result of forbidden knowledge
Bad part of the scientist
They are two sides of the same coin
They are both isolated
Becomes an outcast
External narrator
DR. Walton
Characterized by the desire for the unknown
Explorer in the norh pole
The structure
Epistolary novel
3 narrators
Victor Frankestein to Capitan Wolton
The creature to Victor Frankestein
Capitan Walton to his sister
Gothic novel
It is referred to
The medieval form of architecture
Wild and supernatural
is characterized by
Passionate characters
A description of landscapes characterized by the sublime