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Jun 26, 2024 · Mary Shelley. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, an early warrior for women's rights in English society, and philosopher William Goodwin. Shelley went on to make ...
Jun 26, 2024 · Frankenstein is the title character in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, the prototypical ‘mad scientist’ who creates a monster by which he is eventually killed. The name Frankenstein has become attached to the creature itself, who has become one of the best-known monsters in the history of film.
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Jun 30, 2024 · 'Frankenstein' Reflects the Hopes and Fears of Every Scientific Era. Author Philip Ball writes that Frankenstein is more complicated than a story of science gone awry; that each era makes Frankenstein in its own image. Anonymous Review of Frankenstein-British Library. British Library: Discovering Literature: Romantics and Victorians.
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11 hours ago · A zombie with a suspiciously Frankenstein-like head begins lurching ... The most compelling evidence for this theory is that the chain on Adam’s alleged corpse is attached to the wrong foot ...
5 days ago · The theme of knowledge as a dangerous pursuit in Frankenstein is illustrated by Victor Frankenstein's obsessive quest to uncover the secrets of life, which...
Jun 16, 2024 · This analysis examines Shelley's masterwork "Frankenstein" through the lenses of Gothic Criticism, Marxist Theory, and Psychoanalytic Theory in an effort to decipher the novel's eerie atmospheres, socio-economic structures, and psychological depths—the very things that give it its haunting appeal.
1 day ago · In his seminal work on queer theory and the horror film, Harry Benshoff defines queer theory in a broad sense as an attempt to move beyond “all such categories based on the concepts of normative heterosexuality and traditional gender roles to encompass a more inclusive, amorphous, and ambiguous contra-heterosexuality” (Benshoff, 1997, p. 5).
