The Context of Frankenstein

in Frankenstein

This tutorial examines the personal and external context when Shelley wrote Frankenstein. It details her background with her parents and contemporaries. She had a feminist mother and revolutionary thinker father, was friends with Lord Byron and married to Percy Shelley. There was a history of birth anxiety, including miscarriages and infant deaths, There was a change in how people viewed the world. Science was challenging religion/turning scientists into gods. Overthrowing ideas of what you could and could not do. External context also included the Influence of Milton & Coleridge and the wider context of Romantic movement