The Clash of Enlightenment Values and the Romantic Individual in Frankenstein

This literary analysis explores Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as a conversation with Enlightenment and Romantic values. Using Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance" and Poe's "MS. Found in a Bottle," the student concludes that Shelley's text is in favor of individuality as dictated by nature and opposes scientific individuality that seeks to overturn natural law.
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