Shelley Essays

Frankenstein by English author Mary Shelley (1797-1851) was birthed from a competition on “who could write the best ghost story” between herself and a friend of hers, poet Lord Byron. On January 1, 1818 the manuscript was published and immediately became a bestseller during her time (SparkNotesEditors) This book has …

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein creates a monster that murders several people, and then flees through Europe to the Arctic Circle. In the beginning of the story, it seems that Frankenstein is simply a scientist chasing a pipe dream of finding the key to eternal life, but closer analysis …

Introduction and problem definitionIn this short essay I would like to state thoughts and answer questions concerning the famous book “Frankenstein” by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. The story has been a huge influence on the genre of gothic novels, on female writers and on movie makers. Its themes have fascinated the …

“To a Sky-Lark” was written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1820. Shelley was prime a philosopher and wrote some political texts. He was a poet of the nineteenth century, he was born in 1792 and was drowned at 30 in 1822. This poem is an extended metaphor of the sky-lark …

The gender roles of males and females is the most blatantly expressed theme in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus. It is as if Mary Shelley saw the theoretical horse that represents gender archetypes laying alive and well in the middle of a exquisite field of grass, and then …