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Intro

  • Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a gothic horror story about a young man who defies the laws of nature and creates a monster that ends up taking revenge against his creator.
  • Thesis: Science can have a positive effect on nature but in Frankenstein, Mary Shelley demonstrates the negative effects of science on nature.

Historical Cont.

  • 1832, England’s Parliament outlaws body-snatching for medical research.

Mary Shelley Cont.

Historical Context

  • She and Percy had a son, Percy Florence in 1819.
  • In 1822, just three years later Percy drowned in Italy as a result of a boating incident.
  • Mary suffered from illness for several years before she died in 1851 at the age of fifty-three.

Mary Shelley

  • 1750s, Benjamin Franklin establishes the electrical nature of lightning through experiments using kites.
  • 1818, James Blundell, a London surgeon performs the first successful transfusion of human blood.
  • Mary Wollstonecraft Goodwin was born in 1797
  • Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft died ten days after her birth as a result of complications from the birth.
  • She published Frankenstein anonymously in 1818

Science

Science vs Nature

  • Science was in the beginning of its tenure when Shelley wrote her story, she was explaining Victor’s interest in science and the way he wanted to use it for power to reanimate the dead.
  • Victor created a creature without knowing the consequences of defying the laws of nature and he paid the price by the creature bringing revenge upon Victor. Victor stitched together a body and science was Victor’s answer after the loss of his mother.

Nature

  • There are always consequences for combining science and nature but some people don’t realize it until it is too late.
  • Science and nature are not topics that should be combined together because there are complications that could happen that could result in disaster.

Book Cover (Image from original book)

Works Cited

  • Nature is everywhere, and all around people in the world. There are some people who abuse nature to where it makes the planet not as beautiful as it used to be.
  • The aftermath of the lightning hitting the tree was what happens to trees that get struck by lightning and it can be a magnificent sight to behold.

Frankenstein Book Cover. books.simonandschuster.com/Frankenstein/Mary-Shelley/9780743487580

Holst, Theodor von. Frankenstein. 1831. Illustration.

Kasinec, Denise, Mary L. Onorato. ”Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, An Introduction to." Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Vol. 59. Gale, 1997. 19th Century Literature Criticism Online. 10 July 2016.

Mellor, Anne K, Jessica Bomarito and Russel Whitaker "A Feminist Critique of Science." Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Methuen, 1988. 89-114. Rpt. in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Vol. 170. Detroit: Gale, 2006. 19th Century Literature Criticism Online. 10 July 2016.

Montillo, Roseanne, William Morrow. "Chapter 4 A Meeting of Two Minds." The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley's Masterpiece. HarperCollins, 2013. 94.

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2004.

Sherwin, Paul. "Frankenstein: Creation as Catastrophe." PMLA 96.5 (1981): 883-903.

Original Art (Illustration by Theodor von Holst from the 1831 edition of Frankenstein)

Science cont.

  • Darwin spoke of the importance of recycling all organic matter.
  • Victor also took away from waiting for anything new to evolve over time to trying to create a new life form by combining dead matter to something that will be living.

Frankenstein: Science vs Nature

Presentation by Kylie Yunis

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