Intro One rainy night in Austria the idea of the, to be famous, novel Frankenstein came to Mary Shelly in a dream. The idea to write a ghost story was not her own but Lord Byron's, a friend who was also summer sojourning with Mary Shelley and her husband Percy Shelley. Mary Shelley was 16 at the time and the story of Frankenstein was published two years later in 1818. The tale takes place somewhere in the eighteenth to nineteenth century, a time rich with ideas of the romantic movement, the french
'Such a degree of equality should be established between the sexes as would shut out gallantry and coquetry.” (Mary Wollstonecraft). In this essay I aim to discuss the way in which Alexander Pope's mock epic The Rape of The Lock and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein conform to modern and contemporary expectations of gender and sexuality. Pope uses women as the main subject of his satire within The Rape of the Lock to pass remark on society and the rampant and religious fervour 18th century society
The role of nature, in Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, presents itself as one of the major themes depicted throughout the novel. The natural imagery in "Frankenstein" is comparable to the best in the Romantic literature. She willfully connects the imposing vision of Mother Nature with the horrendous spectacle of a man-made monster and his gruesome deeds. Mary's message to mankind is loud and clear; do not mess with Nature for your own good. Humans should best live like humans. Any attempt to change