Frankenstein context
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- Frankenstein: Context
- Enlightenment
- Intellectual and philosophical movement- Europe- 18th century- faith in human reason to solve the problems of the world and understand the universe
- Shelley shows enlightenment as self destructive
- Victor is eager to make scientific discoveries to the point that he defies natural creation with the creation of the creature- his rejection of 'God's natural order' leads to his destruction
- "Everything is good as it leaves the hands of the author of all things. Everything degenerates in the hands of man"
- Creature is innately good and noble before human interaction - only the cruelty of man that causes him to become a 'monster'
- "Everything is good as it leaves the hands of the author of all things. Everything degenerates in the hands of man"
- The creature becomes more miserable and self loathing as well as hateful of his creature, the more he discovers about himself and the world
- Victor is eager to make scientific discoveries to the point that he defies natural creation with the creation of the creature- his rejection of 'God's natural order' leads to his destruction
- Resurrecting the dead
- Society for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Drowned
- Tales of apparent resurrections from the dead by the Society fed public’s concern that it was impossible to be sure if a person was truly dead and consequently fears of being buried alive grew.
- Galvanism
- Society for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Drowned
- Religion
- Islam- considered the antagonistic religion by Brits
- Safie escapes her 'restrictive' Muslim society and grows in Christian faith
- Islam- considered the antagonistic religion by Brits
- Enlightenment
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