Frankenstein Long Essay

Year12 Literature Long Essay
Frankenstein
Discuss the societal bourgeois ideology and Romantic ideology that informs construction of Shelley's narrative in her novel, Frankenstein.
Mary Shelley lived during the eighteenth century, a time of great social upheaval. It was during this time that the Bourgeois or middle class ideologies were becoming ever more prominent. It was Bourgeois ideologies such as religion and education that helped to inform the construction of Shelley's novel Frankenstein. Mary Shelley was a writer who was greatly influenced by the ideologies generally associated wi…