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In four pages this paper examines a passage from the novel within the context of the Industrial Revolution, considering specifically the views of the English people regarding the changes initiated by industrialization during the nineteenth century. Four sources are listed in the bibliography.
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by the Industrial Revolution (Elsaesser 8). Many critics believe Shelleys novel is a reflection of the early perspectives that envisioned industrialization as a monstrous creation that had gone frighteningly
out of control much like Dr. Victor Frankensteins horrifying creation. Frankenstein bemoaned, "I felt the bitterness of disappointment; dreams that had been my food and pleasant rest for so
long a space were now become a hell to me; and the change was so rapid, the overthrow so complete! (Shelley 289) This could be interpreted as the English
perceptions about the Industrial Revolution, that rapid change had overthrown the beauty and refinement of their society. Like her Romantic contemporaries, Shelley worried that industrialization was robbing nineteenth-century English
society of its individualism, and that the mass production of factory assembly lines was dehumanizing (Elsaesser 8). By 1818, the initial euphoria over the changes to the English landscape
that were direct results of industrialization were being replaced by cynicism and a fear that a manmade monster was being unleashed onto humanity that once created could never be controlled.
In England, the Industrial Revolution built factories and constructed railroads. These innovations represented outward progress and economic prosperity, but looks were deceiving. There were also images of pollution
with billows of smoke pouring out of factory chimneys and thick coatings of ash on sidewalks, in the streets, and on the faces of the factory workers. Frankenstein recounted
with horror the appearance of the creature he created from dead body parts: "Oh! no mortal cold support the horror of that countenance. A mummy again endued with
animation could not be so hideous as that wretch. I had gazed on him while unfinished he was ugly then; but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable
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