Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley

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Frankenstein

Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley is a novel that was written during the age of Romanticism. It contains many themes which are common in Romantic novels such as dark laboratories, the moon, and a monster; however, Frankenstein includes lot more than a common romantic novel. Shelley came to write Frankenstein in 1816 when she was in Switzerland and the poet Lord Byron proposed for entertainment they would each write a 'ghost story,' this is when Shelley started to write 'Frankenstein'. I will now consider the character of the monster and how Shelley uses him to raise themes and issues.

In the novel, she describes a monster that is hideous and wretched looking. A monster's whose appearance prohibits anyone from going beyond his exterior to reach the inside qualities.

'His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of pearly whiteness; but these luxuriance's only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set...'

At 'birth,' the creature appears to not be either violent