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Critical Reviews: Frankenstein. Christianne Finlay Section 16 Denise Scagliotta
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Christianne Finlay
Section 16
Denise Scagliotta
Critical Reviews on Frankenstein: 19th Century
Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, was reviewed critically after it’s first publication in 1818. There are three specific reviews that are of some importance, in that all of these reviews look at the educational and social aspects and impacts of the novel. At the time, there was crisis as to how educated the working and middle class should be and controversy as to how literacy played a role in this education. Shelley’s novel came near the end of the gothic era, in which novels demonstrated the supernatural, violent crime, and even sexual misconduct (Heller 328). Frankenstein focuses on the difficulties and evils of being a lower class person aspiring to reach middle or upper class standing, via education, literacy, and learning the social values of the bourgeois families. This is shown in the novel specifically when the monster finds a family, listens to their stories, reads their books, helps with their work, and yet is chastised and excluded from that household. The interpretation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein after it’s first publication depended exclusively on the thoughts and tolerances of society of the time, while it’s literary accomplishment was thoroughly congratulated.
Being one of the elite few who had never read nor seen anything having to do with Frankenstein or any of it’s parodies, I had the chance to truly read the novel first hand. Also, being unfamiliar with the history of this specific time period, I was free to read the novel with only the biases of my own opinions and experiences. My own review of the novel centers on the lavish descriptions of nature, as part of the era of romanticism. These descriptions, made by all characters in the novel - but most wholly by the monster – were explicitly detailed and developed the story in a way that I am sadly not...
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