Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Social changes in industrialised societies have brought new perspectives to the study of creativity, shifting from a focus on the aesthetic, the philosophical and the psychological, to an analysis of the significance of creativity in social and economic development. Romanticism favours heroic emotion and revolutionary fervour accompanied by a 'gothick' taste for the fantastic and the macabre In 18th century Europe the idea of creativity and invention underwent a dramatic change. During a period of …showed first 75 words of 2380 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2380 total…he Monster is no longer "a sensitive critic of social institutions" but has been "assimilated firmly into the traditional role of the monster as a visible image of presumptuous vice". (Baldick 1990: 59) Mary Shelley attended one of the performances but found that "the story was not well managed" (Baldick 1990: 58). This opinion is quite understandable considering the fact that the original's wide range of possible interpretations had been removed in favour of a moralistic reading of Frankenstein.