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Frankenstein and Enlightenment
The Danger of Unregulated Thought in Frankenstein
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus, considered by many to be one of the first science-fiction novels written, is rife with anti-Enlightenment undertones. Shelley's novel, first published in 1818 and republished in 1831, examines the roles of science and religion, and provides a……
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Frankenstein
An Analysis of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Mary ollstonecraft Shelley wrote in her 1831 introduction to the reprint of Frankenstein that "supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavour to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world" (x). These words not only indicate the manner of her thought on……
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Her list includes the following:
culture / Nature
reason / Nature
male/female mind/body ( Nature)
master/slave reason/matter (physicality)
rationality/animality ( Nature)
human / Nature (non-human)
civilised/primitive ( Nature)
production/reproduction ( Nature)
self/other
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