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Frankenstein Contents

  • Introduction
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  • Author(s)
    • Shelley, Mary
      • Political radicalism and feminism: Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin
      • Mary Shelley's birth, upbringing and education
      • The Byron-Shelley circle
      • Mary Shelley - Life after Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • The context of Frankenstein
    • Social / political context Show more
      • The French Revolution and the constitutional debate
      • British responses to the French Revolution
      • Unrest and reaction in Britain 1789 - 1819
      • Mary Shelley, Frankenstein and politics
      • How Frankenstein came to be written
    • Religious / philosophical context Show more
      • The Bible: Creation
      • Science and Prometheus
      • Luigi Galvani
      • Erasmus Darwin
      • Sir Humphry Davy
        • More on Davy and the use of science
      • Good and bad science
    • Literary context Show more
      • The Bible: Creation: see Religious / philosophical context
      • The Prometheus myth
      • The doppelganger
      • The monster's reading: Plutarch, Milton and Goethe
      • The Romantics: Coleridge, Lamb, Southey, de Quincey
  • Frankenstein Synopses
    • Introduction
    • Title page to the first edition
    • Preface
    • Volume 1 Show more
      • Letters 1-4
      • Chapter 1
        • More on Orlando, Robin Hood, Amadis and St. George
        • More on Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus and Albertus Magnus
        • More on contemporary understanding of electricity
      • Chapter 2
      • Chapter 3
      • Chapter 4
      • Chapter 5
      • Chapter 6
      • Chapter 7
    • Volume 2 Show more
      • Chapter 1
      • Chapter 2
        • More on landscape and its effect
        • More on the creature's words
        • More on reference to Adam
      • Chapter 3
        • More on the creature's experiences
      • Chapter 4
      • Chapter 5
      • Chapter 6
      • Chapter 7
      • Chapter 8
        • More on the reader's attitude to the creature
      • Chapter 9
    • Volume 3 Show more
      • Chapter 1
      • Chapter 2
      • Chapter 3
      • Chapter 4
      • Chapter 5
      • Chapter 6
        • More on reaction to Victor's story
      • Chapter 7
        • More on the curse on Victor
      • Walton's final letters
  • Narrative
    • The narrative frames
    • The nature of the narrative Show more
      • More on the three narrators
    • Language
  • Characterisation
    • Caroline, Elizabeth and Justine
    • Margaret Saville and the Russian fiancée
    • Agatha de Lacey and Safie
    • Robert Walton
    • Victor Frankenstein
    • Henry Clerval
    • The Monster
  • Themes and significant ideas
    • Absent mothers and the fear of the maternal
    • Creativity and the imagination Show more
      • More on the Romantics and imagination
    • Science and defiance
  • Imagery and symbolism
    • Introduction
    • Religion and mythology
    • Laboratory and mine
    • Mountains and lakes Show more
      • More on the mountains
    • The Arctic regions: ice and snow
  • Structure
    • Structure and narrative
    • Symbolic and thematic structures
    • Geographical structures
  • Critical analysis
    • Reception: 1818 Show more
      • More on Gothic fiction
    • Revision 1831 Show more
      • More on the case for the 1818 text
      • More on some differences between the texts of 1818 and 1831
    • Recent critical approaches
    • Ways of interpreting Frankenstein
    • Analysing a passage: example and comment
  • Approaching exams and essays
    • Engaging with the text
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    • What makes a good English exam answer?
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The Storming of the Bastille Edmund Burke George III Emblem used during the campaign to abolish slavery Luddites smashing a loom Adam and Eve Luigi Galvani Erasmus Darwin Plutarch's Lives Paradise Lost Orlando Furioso Chaise The Alchemist in Search of the Philosopher's Stone Diligence Cabriolet Adam in the garden with God Aesop photo by Shakko available through Creative Commons Ancient Mariner castle frankenstein photo by Emil available through Creative Commons John Hampden Laudanum Mer de Glace photo by Jean-Pol GRANDMONT available through Creative Commons Russian fiancée Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's Monster William Blake Photo by Jerzy Strzelecki available through Creative Commons Walter Scott Captain
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The Storming of the Bastille
Edmund Burke
George III
Emblem used during the campaign to abolish slavery
Luddites smashing a loom
Adam and Eve
Luigi Galvani
Erasmus Darwin
Plutarch's Lives
Paradise Lost
Orlando Furioso
Chaise
The Alchemist in Search of the Philosopher's Stone
Diligence
Cabriolet
Adam in the garden with God
Aesop photo by Shakko available through Creative Commons
Ancient Mariner
castle frankenstein photo by Emil available through Creative Commons
John Hampden
Laudanum
Mer de Glace photo by Jean-Pol GRANDMONT available through Creative Commons
Russian fiancée
Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's Monster
William Blake
Photo by Jerzy Strzelecki available through Creative Commons
Walter Scott
Captain