of their time. And so we shall begin.
In retrospect, Mary Shelly’s epistolary novel Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus provides us with a gateway to the values and ideals of the time in which it was written. It is often difficult for any author to compose in isolation of their cultural, political and historical contexts. Hereby, the nature of humanity and the dangers of the challenging the natural order are consequential in Shelly’s literary limn of individuals who contest the conventional…
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