'The novel is a powerful examination of, challenge to, what is good and evil in man and therefore society.'From your understanding of Frankenstein, discuss your response to the above opinions.

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AS Level English Literature Frankenstein Coursework, January 2006, Lyndsay Scott

'Our taste and our judgement alike revolt at this kind of writing...it urges no lesson of conduct, manners or morality.'

'The novel is a powerful examination of, challenge to, what is good and evil in man and therefore society.'

From your understanding of Frankenstein, discuss your response to the above opinions.

From my understanding of the novel, I can see that Frankenstein is a text which evidently deals with concerns about good and evil in man and society. Therefore my interpretation is that yes, very much so is Frankenstein a text which deals with fundamental moral issues about what is essentially good and evil in man and society. Therefore I feel it is possible to obtain not one but arguably numerous moral lessons from the themes explored in the text. This opinion has been recognised and many are in agreement that Mary Shelley, through Frankenstein does offer and voice a definite sense of morality. However, over the years, the text has been interpreted in a different light, in that Frankenstein does not, in fact offer any sort of lesson of conduct, manners or morality. There