... , after Frankenstein was published. (72) It is clear upon close examination that indeed several dimensions of Victor Frankenstein are modeled directly from Percy Shelly. Victor was Percy Shelley's pen name and Victor Frankenstein's family also resembles Percy Shelley's in both the father is married to a woman ... and, in spite of frequent professions to the contrary, has no active sympathy for anyone but himself. It has been speculated that Shelly herself did not believe that moral behavior is motivated by sympathy for others and that it is through her character of Victor that ... from t...

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