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MARY SHELLEY (1797-1851) - Coggle Diagram
MARY SHELLEY (1797-1851)
BIOGRAPHY
born in London
proto-feminist
father's
important literary figures
Blake
Coleridge
Perey Bysshe Shelley (fell in love)
wrote Frankenstein
1818: Italian cities
1819: Florence fourth child
1822: husband boating accident
wrote historical novels
THEMES AND STYLE
various topics
science
evolutionary theorie
medicine
good governance
chemistry
social justice
novels - autobiographical elements
experimented - different points of view - Frankenstein
PLOT OF FRANKENSTEIN
English explorer - Robert Walton - North Pole
poor condition - Frankenstein
created human - putting together parts from corpses
LEVELS OF NARRATION
epistolary novel
three different narrators - three different points of view
Robert Walton - expedition sister
Frankenstein - tells life to Walton
his story to Frankenstein
Margaret Saville (iniziali)
LITERARY INFLUENCES
epistolary novel
primitive state
myth of Prometheus from Greek mythology
THEMES
creates a human being even without the participation of a woman
THE ROLE OF SCIENCE
experiments on electricity
Luigi Galvani - legs of dead frogs move
author - sympathize with the creature