... talks about being almost worshipped by this new species, and he thoroughly believes his creation with benefit the world. It is as if the creature is Adam as his first creation, and also by creating this new species Frankenstein is replacing women - and this can be related to the death of Justine, ... the female creature, and Elizabeth. Before the creature tells his tale he says '"Remember I am thy creature; I aught to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen Angel whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed."' This is a strong reference to Paradise Lost, as the creature was ... the first o...

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... signaled his association with the radical politics advocated by Percy Shelley. Ingolstadt was famous as the home of the Illuminati, a secret revolutionary society founded by Ingolstadt's Professor of Law, Adam Weishaupt. According to Mellor, "Weishaupt advocated the perfection of mankind through the overthrow of established religious and political institutions" (73). It was the goal of Shelley that by mirroring ... philosophies of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century played a role in the shaping of Shelley's thoughts as well. In the mid-eighteenth century a young economist ...

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