Examples Of Romanticism In Frankenstein

The Romantic period was featured by a market departure from the ideas of the literary period that continued it, which was scientific and rational in nature. Romantic poetry was created to express a new relationship to the imagination. This kind of poet was always finding a way to capture the moment they experienced. The speakers in most of the romantic poems of the time are indistinguishable from the authors themselves. This is something Shelley embraces and displays. For example, the moment Mary Shelley describes in her story isn't a moment recalled from her own experiences, and she isn't the narrative voice either, but she's still portraying this quest to achieve excellence. The quest I'm referring to is, Victor Frankenstein's effort to create a human out of raw material in his private laboratory.
The romantics believed that is was imagination, both individual and collective, that would create a new understanding of the world. Victor is the ultimate dreamer. In this sense, he's a romantic. Also, this is a novel about romantics striving against the usual boundaries on our existence. First of all, there is the example, that's quite obvious, of Victor pushing his limitations as a human by trying to play a God-like role by making the monster. What makes "Frankenstein" such an exemplary romantic novel is that it take these characteristics that are a must in romantic writing and challenges their common use. I believe that by her making these elements appropriate and combining them with gothic characteristics, she extended the possibilities of both genres. She created a novel that is more complex than the work of many authors that write with the same style by provoking ethic and moral questions left to the reader to