Mary Wollstonecraft

Frankenstein (Annotated) Mary Wollstonecraft

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-This book contains a historical context, where past events or the study and narration of these events are examined. The historical context refers to the circumstances and incidents surrounding an event. This context is formed by everything that, in some way, influences the event when it happens. A fact is always tied to its time: that is, to its characteristics. Therefore, when analyzing events that took place tens, hundreds or thousands of years ago, it is essential to know the historical context to understand them. Otherwise, we would be analyzing and judging what happened in a totally different era with a current perspective. Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus (the best known of the wild men of Romanticism) of Mary Shelley, the wife of the famous English poet Percey Shelley, has a prominent place on the list of Gothic horror stories. Splendid reflection on scientific morality, the creation and destruction of life and the audacity of humanity in its relationship with God (hence the analogy with Prometheus), the story of the scientific scientist who gives life to a being constituted with members of corpses has become one of the great classics of universal literature, and has seen numerous film adaptations, some more fanciful and grotesque (like the two of James Whale with Boris Karloff as a monster and that of Terence Fisher with Christopher Lee)