Sunday, February 27, 2011
Frankensteins impact.
After reading this novel and how intrigued I was about how Mary published it anonymously due to the time period and because of all the debates that came about, from who should take credit to "nineteenth century critics not wanting to believe that Mary was even that good" (preface x), I was curious as to what kind of impact did Frankenstein have on the literary world as well as the fact that a young women wrote it. What i found about the impact it had was that it completely opened the doors during the romantic movement for Gothic literature. Once Frankenstein was published it was the first of a dozen Frankenstein novels by different authors, from "Frankenstein unbound" to "The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein", all based on the original Mary Shelley's version whether it be from a different point of view or about the background of other characters. To me after researching and reading this book, i believe that with the extreme help of her mother, Mary even opened the gateway for women writers on into the twentieth century. It will forever be a classic.
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In Mary Shelly story Frankenstein i found it very hard to read. The story was not that interesting to me. You can tell that Victor and the monster was feeling a sense of loneliness. Victor decided to create a being like himself. "I should attempt the creation of a being like myself or one more simpler organization."(Shelly 31) Victor creation would be," gigantic in stature, about eight feet tall and proportionably large."(Shelly 32)
ReplyDeleteHowever; he wasnt trying to create a monster he just wanted a friend. At first i had an different outlook on the monster because i thought he was such an horrible creature. I did notice one way that the monster was like his creator and that was because they both felt lonely and by that he wanted Victor to create him an mate. I guess just because your not human doesnt mean that you dont have feelings.
It seems that someone decided to research the responses and affects of Mary Shelley’s publishing Frankenstein. Shelley did publish the book anonymously due to the time period she lived in. Women weren’t seen as equal to men. As I’ve stated in my research blog people though that her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote the book. It wasn’t until the second publishing that h=it was known that Mary Shelley wrote the book. Shelley’s book has opened doors to genres such as horror, science fiction, and romance. “The novel today is generally considered to be a landmark work of romantic and gothic literature, as well as science fiction” (Wikipedia.org)
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