... to completely escape society's rigid grasp for a short amount of time to simply get lost in nature and as Abbey put it, "just do nothing". It was the summer after senior year and I was incredibly hyped up after finishing the last book I read in high school which was none other than Jon Krakauer's "Into The Wild," and I was thirsty ... for an adventure. Before reading the book, I already has a profound love for nature but after reading the inspiring story, I found myself experiencing this outlandish fantasy to be like Chris McCandless and wanting to escape society by any means necessary....

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Mary Shelley began to write Frankenstein in the summer of 1816 and was heavily influenced by the social changes that were making their way across Europe. Shelley was obviously influenced by the idea of Romanticism and the importance of ... , 'Unless I had been animated by an almost supernatural enthusiasm'. The creature is his double, his persecutor, and his victim. The lives of him and his creator are strongly linked. Through reading novels like Milton's Paradise Lost he starts wondering about himself and his isolation because of his apparent uniqueness: 'I was apparently united by no link t...

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