... include: Paradise Lost, Plutarch's Lives, and Sorrows of Werther. All of these works reflect the themes of Frankenstein, but would go unnoticed to the general reader. Frankenstein was written for highly educated people who would understand the allusions in it. There were also allusions to alchemists that Frankenstein read. The reader had to know that these alchemists wrote about ideas that were at least three hundred ... years old in order to understand why these readings were rejected by the professors at the university. During the ... ...

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... . While there is symbolic meaning to the entire story, there are also many implicit metaphors within the use of nature. In Frankenstein, the element of weather is used in the opening chapters in order to foreshadow the symbolic representation of nature, both assertive and destructive, used in repetition throughout the book. In the opening of the story, there are pleasurable experiences that weather constantly brings ... a very thick fogThis fog symbolizes murkiness and confusion, as Robert and his crew all cannot figure out a method to continue the journey, nor guess the identity of Fran...

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... as texts are a reflection of their context and its values, it is evident that aspects of human nature remain constant irrespective of context. In Frankenstein, Shelley explores the transgression of the natural order in the Romantic ideal by humanity's ongoing pursuit of progress and knowledge, a consequence of the Enlightenment Era and the Industrial Revolution. Victor's overreaching ... of nature. Ultimately, the son of Victor's transgressions is revealed through allusions "an eternal hell" describing the psychological consequences of challenging the natural order. Thus, Shelley cr...

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