Write an essay of not more than 1500 words refering to Great Expectations by Charles dickens and Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, discussing how origins are explored through realist and other conventions.

Through discussing the works of Dicken's Great Expectations and Shelly's Frankenstein I plan to show that, although on the surface the novels appear to be very differnt, there are a number of similarities to be seen when we explore the character's origins through genre convention. I plan to show how different works, through the narrative, can be shaped by personal and personal influences, by religous traditions, gothic and melodramatic conventions, repetition of myth and of course predominately realism.
Both aithors draw on their own life experiences to shape the novels. Shelly may have d…