... looking beyond even them. Along with the Industrial Revolution arose the belief that mechanical principles governed all phenomena, from the movement of the planets to the beating of a heart. By the nineteenth century, the major scientific thinkers, following Descartes, were proclaiming that all of nature was one vast machine. As a result, the distinction between the living and the dead was blurred and it was widely ... felt that inorganic matter could easily generate living beings. The search for the power that could ... give life seemed to have ended with the discovery of electricity. ...

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... (56), Victor had created the monster and thus knew very well what the creature looked like before it awoke. Therefore, his terror seems to represent a sort of subconscious self-vision. Victor's incestuous dream, where Elizabeth turns into an image of his dead mother, seems to represent his feelings of guilt and betrayal. By leaving home, Victor had separated himself from all feminine ... influences, focusing his attention on his quest and repressing all other desires. Thus, it seems that the awakening of the monster represents the expression of his repressed desires, including his longi...

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