Scarica mary shalley e Frankenstein e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! Mary shelly She mother was writer and feminist, Mary married with Percy Shelly, he was a guess of her dad, they run together cause her dad didn’t approve the marriage, so they went in Genova in 1816. Mary wrote Frankenstein in Genova, editor didn’t want to published because she was a women, Percy had to write a preface for her, cause he was famous. Mary Shelly had financial problems, she lost due kids, only one survived, Percy killed himself by drowning in a river, so Mary moved back in England. She published Percy’s stories for money, and she began to write Sothic fictions and she was a novelist. Frankenstein Robert Walton, an explorer, tells how he has met Victor Frankenstein in the Arctic after earlier having seen a 'gigantic figure' crossing the ice. Victor tells of his childhood and his caring family, particularly of his love for his foster sister Elizabeth. His mother dies of fever just before he leaves to study at university. While at university, Victor's interest in science becomes an obsession. Victor uses dead bodies to experiment on and creates a monster made of body parts. He is immediately disgusted by the thing he has created and abandons it. Victor's brother William is murdered and Justine Moritz, a family servant, is executed for it. However, Victor believes the Monster is to blame after witnessing it at the scene of the murder. The Monster and Victor meet on the Glacier of Montanvert in the Alps. The Monster tells the story of how it has survived and of the time it has spent becoming educated. The Monster asks Victor to admit responsibility for his actions and show some sympathy. He also pleads with Victor to build a female companion. Victor agrees. Victor finds a remote spot in the Orkneys where he begins to construct the female creature but suddenly, realising the consequences of what he is doing, he tears it to pieces. The Monster, who has followed Victor, is enraged and in revenge kills Victor's best friend, Henry Clerval. Victor and Elizabeth marry, but Victor finds his new wife dead at the hands of the Monster. He vows to hunt the creature down. In Walton's last letters, back in the Arctic, Frankenstein dies and the Monster, still miserable, heads off, probably to its own death. Written at a time of great social change, Frankenstein is about the power of scientific ambition and the dangers of going a step too far. The novel is written in epistolary form and the letters are written by Robert Walton, the captain of a ship bound for the North Pole, to his sister who lives in England. Walton is not the only narrator of the story, there are two other narrative voices in the novel: Doctor Frankenstein, who tells Walton the story of his life, his scientific experiments and the creation of the monster and the monster himself,
