Frankenstein Analysis

Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley

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eNotes: Table of Contents
1. Frankenstein: Introduction 2. Frankenstein: Summary 3. Frankenstein: Overview 4. Frankenstein: Mary Shelley Biography 5. Frankenstein: Summary and Analysis ♦ Volume 1: Letters 1-4 Summary and Analysis ♦ Volume 1: Chapters 1 and 2 Summary and Analysis ♦ Volume 1: Chapters 3, 4, and 5 Summary andAnalysis ♦ Volume 1: Chapters 6 and 7 Summary and Analysis ♦ Volume 2: Chapters 1 and 2 Summary and Analysis ♦ Volume 2: Chapters 3, 4, and 5 Summary and Analysis ♦ Volume 2: Chapters 6, 7, 8 and 9 Summary and Analysis ♦ Volume 3: Chapters 1 and 2 Summary and Analysis ♦ Volume 3: Chapters 3 and 4 Summary and Analysis ♦ Volume 3: Chapters 5 and 6 Summary and Analysis ♦ Volume 3: Chapter 7 Summary andAnalysis 6. Frankenstein: Quizzes ♦ Volume 1: Letters 1-4 Questions and Answers ♦ Volume 1: Chapters 1 and 2 Questions and Answers ♦ Volume 1: Chapters 3, 4, and 5 Questions and Answers ♦ Volume 1: Chapters 6 and 7 Questions and Answers ♦ Volume 2: Chapters 1 and 2 Questions and Answers ♦ Volume 2: Chapters 3, 4, and 5 Questions and Answers Frankenstein 1

♦ Volume 2: Chapters 6, 7, 8 and 9Questions and Answers ♦ Volume 3: Chapters 1 and 2 Questions and Answers ♦ Volume 3: Chapters 3 and 4 Questions and Answers ♦ Volume 3: Chapters 5 and 6 Questions and Answers ♦ Volume 3: Chapter 7 Questions and Answers 7. Frankenstein: Characters 8. Frankenstein: Themes 9. Frankenstein: Style 10. Frankenstein: Historical Context 11. Frankenstein: Critical Overview 12. Frankenstein: Character Analysis♦ Victor Frankenstein ♦ The Monster ♦ Robert Walton 13. Frankenstein: Essays and Criticism ♦ In the Context of the Romantic Era ♦ Frankenstein's Fallen Angel ♦ The Noble Savage in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein 14. Frankenstein: Suggested Essay Topics 15. Frankenstein: Sample Essay Outlines 16. Frankenstein: Compare and Contrast 17. Frankenstein: Topics for Further Study 18. Frankenstein: MediaAdaptations 19. Frankenstein: What Do I Read Next? 20. Frankenstein: Bibliography and Further Reading

Introduction
Mary Shelley made an anonymous but powerful debut into the world of literature when Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus was published in March, 1818. She was only nineteen when she began writing her story. She and her husband, poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, were visiting poet Lord Byronat Lake Geneva in Switzerland when Byron challenged each of his guests to write a ghost story. Settled around Byron's fireplace in June 1816, the intimate group of intellectuals had their imaginations and the stormy weather as the stimulus and inspiration for ghoulish visions. A few nights later Mary Shelley imagined the "hideous phantasm of man" who became the confused yet deeply sensitivecreature in Frankenstein. She once said, "My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings." While many stage, television, and film adaptations of Frankenstein have simplified the complexity of the intellectual and emotional responses of Victor Frankenstein and his creature to their world, the novel still endures. Its lasting power can be seen in the range of reactions explored by...