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Mary Shelley's Style of Writing

The Idea of Frankenstein

  • The idea came to Shelley in a dream where she saw a student using parts of different men to bring it to life as one man.
  • The work is considered to be a mixture of science fiction, gothic novel, and having parts from the Romantic movement.

Early Life

Criticism

Characteristics of writing style

  • "The birth of Frankenstein and of it's Monster are among the most celebrated events in Literary and Popular history."
  • "Although Frankenstein is Undeniably a novel constructed out of the currency of the radical movement, it is also a critique of that system and of the personalities of the men who were it's proponents."
  • Mary Shelley had many important influences while growing up:
  • Her father, William Godwin, was an important philosopher.
  • Her mother,Mary Wollstonecraft, was famous journalist, radical thinker, and a feminist.
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley was a major voice in English Romanticism.

  • She adds complexity to her writting style by choosing to create 3 different narrators in the story.
  • This narrating structure creates an unclear timeline, but it displays qualities of chararcters as well.
  • Her style is rich in vocabulary and is highly descriptive especially when describing a landscape.
  • The landscapes often mirror the character's feelings.
  • She doesn't over use figurative language.
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