Mary Shelley
Mattia Landi
Salvatore Di Rienzo
Giuseppe Troianiello
Miky Siciliani
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Symbols:
lightning;
lake;
industrialization;
colour yellow;
moon.
Shelley's masterpiece is Frankenstein, published anonymously in 1818.
Main characters:
Doctor Victor Frankenstein;
The Creature.
Shelley was the pioneer feminist and author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
Mary Shelley was the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Dr. Frankenstein is a scientifically updated version of Faust; The Creature is a symbol of the Romantic concern for the isolation of the individual.
When her husband drowned, Mary devoted the rest of her life to editing and publicising his works.
She wrote five more novels, the best of which is The Last Man (1826).
Writing technique:
Frankenstein is told in the first person by three different non-omniscient narrators.
