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Frankenstein context
mary Shelley
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Mary lost one of her sisters to suicide and had three miscarriages and early childhood deaths of her own children
one of her fathers main philosophies was that everyone should act for the good of mankind as if not it will cause the breakdown of society whihc influenced Victor as he largely thinks and acts in selfish ways resulting in him endagering mankind
Mary Wollstonecraft
pressed for educational reforms as she argued that women were not naturally inferior to men but they were at an educational disadvantage meaning they were inferior
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negative views of her after her death - William Godwin published a bibliography of her life and deatiled her illegitimate children and sexual relations without being married meaning she became remembered for her scandalus life rather than her work
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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political writings eg On the Social Contract asserted belief in democratic gov and social empowerment
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religion and science
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influenced by scientific rev at the time - heard of Galvani who had supposedly re-animated dead tissue and Aldini who had wired a criminals corpse to a battery and made its jaw clench
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Romanticism
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imagination seen as powerful and can be used to escape the world and such creativity is seen as powerful and godlike
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class and society
Frankenstein from the beginning has early access to books of science which heavily influence his obsession and it is clear that this priviledge comes from his high class which the creature does not have
upper classes in the 1800s had access to the best education and through this they seperate themselves from the lower classes gaining power
story concerns social issues: individual and social morality and questions humanity - relates to now ethical issues of creating eg cloning, test tube babies, organ doning
Gothic movement
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paradise lost - adam and eve - original start of life sets up Frankenstein as god and the monster as Adam
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