... 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 ambition to overcome the natural boundaries by taking God's creator role is highlighted in the metaphor "Life and death appeared to me ideal boundsI should ... complete exploitation and degradation of the natural world, raising contextual concerns of the ecological consequences of humanity's obsession with aggrandisement through economic domination fostered by...

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... societies, but through insights into human experience, offer caution to modern day audiences. Mary Shelley's gothic, seminal science fiction text "Frankenstein" depicts the enlightening scientific world during the Industrial Revolution, where its frame narrative cautions about the negative connotations involved with unnatural science. "Frankenstein" is allegorical for the technologically changed era, where the creation rebels against its creator ... to describe the naturally sublime's power, "The sun is yet high in the heavens; before it descends to hide itself and illuminate another wo...

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