In fact, at that time the world was considered to operate like a machine. Moreover, the changes had an impact in literature too, since all the new machines destroyed people’s values and their feelings towards literature. Many authors who respected humanism and people as an individual were rejected. Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, for example, can be listed as one of the works that refuse to put science above human values. Shelley believed that the world was starting to ignore the love, beauty and
period of enlightenment. According to Hunt, Martin, And Rosenwein at this time ideals resurfaced from the Roman era in ways of art, architecture, writing, science and theory (430). Despite the cultural changes during this period of insight the expectations of a women in society saw little to no variation. Margaret L King, author of Women of the Renaissance, depicts the life of a woman in religious, domestic, and intellectual aspects throughout all classes. King's primary thesis is that women did not have