"Frankenstein"- Evolution
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 05:24:51
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 8 pages (2073 words)
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 8 pages (2073 words)
Not so long ago, relative to the world at large, in picturesque Geneva not so far from Lake
Leman, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley took part in a not so commonplace "contest". The contest
was to write a ghost story. The outcome was Frankenstein; what is considered today to be a
classic, one of the first science fiction tales, and a story immortalized many times over in film.
And what at its inception was considered little more …
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…to a given work. Moreover, the significant
presence of the science fiction genre in today's literature and a wider range of experimentation
within novels has left today's critics in a position to be less shocked and offended by a novel,
thereby allowing them to give a more impartial critical assessment of a work than was the case
when Frankenstein was first published while going beyond the limits of preliminary formal,
expressive, mimetic and rhetorical theories.
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