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A 3 pages essay that argues that Mary Shelley pursued both Romantic and Neoclassical themes in her masterpiece Frankenstein. The writer argues that while valuing the Romantic values of imagination and creativity, Shelley also offers a cautionary tale that warns the reader that such elements should also be tempered by reason. No additional sources cited.
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Frankenstein is Gothic Romanticism at its best, the novel also can be seen as a warning against Romanticism, as it also embraces a Neoclassical stance in the manner that it
didactically instructs the reader on the importance of order and responsibility. In other words, while valuing the Romantic values of imagination and creativity, Shelley also offers a cautionary tale that
warns the reader that such elements should also be tempered by reason. In other words, while drawing on her own imagination to create this masterpiece, Shelley also warns against
the extremes of Romanticism. This point is established early-on in the novel as Victor Frankenstein describes his reasons for pursuing his unholy experiments. Victor states that while he had doubts
at first, his "imagination was too much exalted by my first success to permit me to doubt of my ability to give life to an animal as complex and wonderful
as man" (Shelley 39). As this illustrates, Victor was not considering the end result of his actions, but was rather inspired by his own brilliance to the point of hubris.
Throughout his introductory chapters, Shelley underscores the point that passion, to excess, can lead to error. She writes that "A human being in perfection ought to always to preserve
a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility" (42). As this suggests, an underlying theme in this work is that
passion, even the pursuit of knowledge, carried to extreme can lead the individual into error that is "not befitting the human mind" (Shelley 42). Victor, however, is too taken
with his own ability to stop to consider the consequences of his actions. He creates the Monster, a creature whom he immediately loathes and sees as a "mistake." Unlike
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