Essay Archive - Faust and Victor Frankenstein: Unconcerned With Reality
Faust and Victor Frankenstein: Unconcerned With Reality
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein build on the Promethean myth that was so central to the Romantic Movement. Her work describes a character perhaps properly called übermensch: a man of exceptional learning and ability, veritable superman. Yet at the same time, Frankenstein is portrayed as a grand failure, heroic but fated, doomed by the very superiority that ennobles him. Victor Frankenstein struggles for control over the processes of life and death, but is horribly punished whe....
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