FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MARY SHELLEY
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Question
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The macho culture of the time considered that a woman did not have the intellectual capacity to write such a significant literary work.
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Romanticism was a European cultural and artistic movement that together with the French and Industrial Revolution achieved great transformations in Europe, however they excluded women
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Women were excluded from the intellectual life of the time, it shows that despite the advancement of science and technology there is gender inequality
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -He is creating life in a way that has never been attempted before, essentially meaning that he is taking the power of life away from God and giving it to humans, just like Prometheus did with fire.
Detailed explanation-2: -Like Prometheus’ sacred fire, Victor Frankenstein’s science gives humans what once had belonged only to the gods: immortality. Like the eagle tearing out Prometheus’ liver, Victor’s loved ones are torn from him. Victor’s monster also resembles the modern Prometheus in that he signifies liberation from a creator.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1816, Mary, Percy, and Lord Byron had a competition to see who could write the best horror story. After thinking for days, Shelley was inspired to write Frankenstein after imagining a scientist who created life and was horrified by what he had made.
Detailed explanation-4: -Mary sustained two devastating blows while writing Frankenstein: the suicides of her half sister Fanny and Harriet Shelley, Percy’s first wife. These tragedies drove home what Mary already knew: unmarried mothers and illegitimate children were hated by society just like Frankenstein’s creature.