Shelley's story, though initially just a few pages, modeled into the novel Frankenstein after encouragement and inspiration from her husband, another writer Percy Shelley. Shelley's Frankenstein from the era of romanticism mixes the horror of the Monster with his intimate humane feelings. The Gothic novel deals intertwiningly with the people's prejudice to outward appearances, and with the dangers of playing God with science. The prejudice against the Monster is the result of judging a book by its cover. Looking at his ghastly exterior, people fail to recognize the true qualities of the Monster, who though an ogre by appearance is originally kind at heart. Intelligent and sensitive, the Monster attempts to integrate himself into human social patterns, but all, who see him, shun him. His words "I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on" makes the reader realize that the Monster too is a being with deep sensitive feelings within. The prejudice in the reader's mind may well be rooted in naming Frankenstein's creature "the Monster". The idea behind the novel was a horrific science fiction, but the authoress has also given a sensitive touch to the horrors. The book also applies an effective tool of direct communication, through letters from Robert Walton to his sister, through narrations by Victor Frankenstein conveying a chilliness of the dangers faced from the Monster, and through the Monster's complaints about the injustice imparted to him. ("Even now, my blood boils at the recollection of this injustice"). Such works as the Frankenstein, like many others of the period combined romanticism with the general background of the story. Frankenstein stood out in the era of romanticism, because it integrates the deepest human feelings, even with the much abhorred, much inhuman Monster that towards the end of he novel proves to be with as much human feelings as anyone one may have come across, perhaps even more.
