... individual imagination. She incorporated many bold and at times far-fetched dreams into her characters as she wrote, and in the end she came up with a string of romantic fantasies. Major and minor characters alike had dreams; some of love and others of simply fame, but these ... dreams and fantasies make Frankenstein a true romantic novel. When it comes to Shelley herself, she no longer wanted part in the mechanical rules of conventional form so she too fulfilled her fantasy of something new and it was Shelley who lived vicariously through her characters ... my path" (29). Again Walton's...

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