Mary Wollstonecraft

Frankenstein (Annotated) Mary Wollstonecraft

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus (the best known of the wild men of Romanticism) of Mary Shelley, the wife of the famous English poet Percey Shelley, has a prominent place on the list of Gothic horror stories. Splendid reflection on scientific morality, the creation and destruction of life and the audacity of humanity in its relationship with God (hence the analogy with Prometheus), the story of the scientific scientist who gives life to a being constituted with members of corpses has become one of the great classics of universal literature, and has seen numerous film adaptations, some more fanciful and grotesque (like the two of James Whale with Boris Karloff as a monster and that of Terence Fisher with Christopher Lee) and others more faithful to the original (such as Kenneth Brannagh with Robert de Niro). And if the story of the monster has become mythical, it has not been less literary gestation. According to Mary Shelley herself, the idea of the novel arose during a visit she and her marti made, in the summer of 1816, to Lord Byron, who lived near Geneva, in the Villa Deodati, next to Lake Leman; an endless rain locked them many days at home, and that led Byron to challenge them to a literary competition: each one would write a ghost story. The romantic, alpine and Rousseaunian context is revealing, under the influence of which the story was written.