Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is among the best Romantic/Gothic novels. Shelley incorporates many ideas stemming from Romanticism into the novel. Some of these ideas are the power of nature and addressing emotions. Shelley also alludes to another Romantic writer, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and his most famous Romantic poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
The most prominent theme of the Romantic era is nature. Romantics involve themselves with the natural world rather than the modern technological world. This idea that nature overpowers technology is shown through the monster. …
