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Historical and political

Galvanism – re-animating a corpse using electricity
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she plagues my father out of
his life”
There is a link made here
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However both the creature and Claremont brought great misery to those who brought them
into the picture

That ‘ungenial’ Swiss summer of 1816
Mary sherry wrote Franknesterin as part of a challenge set by Lord Byron when she, him and
Percy were holidaying in the Swiss Alps
There is a general mood of the of that trip in Frankenstein
Byron described the summer as “I was half mad… between metaphysics, mountains, lakes,
love inextinguishable, thoughts unalterable”

Percy shelley ‘over reaching heroes’

The idea that men had devine powers
Franknestein is Mary Shelley’s critique of where this kind of power can lead when in a
scientific context

Percy shelley as victor franknestein
Victory was the name used by percy during boyhood
Franknestein is a ‘divine wanderer’ as Percy Shelley appereasd to be
Mary shelley described percy like she does victor “such a man has a double exitence: he
may suffer misery and be overwhelmed by disappointments, yet when he has retired into
himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him”
Both Victor and Percy used to lie at the bottom of the boat “and as (they) gazed on the
cloudless blue sky, (they) seemed to drink in a tranquillity to which (they) had been a
stranger”



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