Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Reviews

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein explores the idea of the 'creation of life'. The idea of Frankenstein seems to show how man can go too far in his exploration of what constitutes 'life'.Frankenstein' raises the never-ending question of how far is too far in relation to medicine. Frankenstein's monster is in effect a load of body parts put together to ...  Read the complete review

Few who pick up this book will be unfamiliar with the back story: as a young girl, Mary Shelley created this gothic tale after experiencing a vivid dream and writing the opening as part of a ghost story competition between literary friends. We know this because the writer felt compelled to add a preface explaining how such a young girl was able to ...  Read the complete review

Everybody seems to think that they know the story of Frankenstein. Strange scientist man creates big monster thing, has disastrous consequences, right? Well, not quite. There is a lot more to it than initially meets the eye... Written by Mary Shelley in 1818 (which explains the complex, 'proper' English which is used throughout the ...  Read the complete review

In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein you can see how the influences of her life and the world around her affect the characters and plot of "Frankenstein". For example Mary Shelley's mother died of puerperal fever when she was just 10 days old. This is influences the book because Frankenstein's mother dies in childbirth. Another thing that Mary ...  Read the complete review

Frankenstein is a horror story written by Mary Shelley and published in 1818. The basic premise of the story is that Dr Frankenstein, obsessed with the creation of life, finds a way to bring the dead back to a living state. From various pieces of corpses he manages to instil life in a creature, which then becomes uncontrollable and goes around ...  Read the complete review

I read this book a while ago, and it was quite interesting and very different from any other. It follows the genre, being gothic about the creation of this monster. It is very well-written and follows ths story of the student and his creation, before feeling the need to destroy it after feeling disgusted and deprived of his family and wife. It is ...  Read the complete review

To preface this review: this isn't so much a review of the book, but rather a recommendation of which edition to buy, since there are literally tens of them on the market! It's a bit odd that Dooyoo only offer only one version of a novel to review, because there's a big difference between different editions of a text (though many people ...  Read the complete review

Hello my name is Robert, some of you may recognize me from my other writings on other sites including my review of "Roger and Me" by Michael Moore. Some of the people who may recognize me are CarlyPussycat and NurseBeatty all good people I know. Unfortunately I came to Dooyoo because my reviews as of late have been ...  Read the complete review

The tale of Victor Frankenstein and the monster he creates has been told time and time again in numerous films. My education seemed sadly lacking in that I had never read Mary Shelley?s original story and found out about the original scientist and his inhuman creation. And so I embarked upon Shelley?s tale of man?s inhumanity to man, ...  Read the complete review

Perhaps considered by many to be the original, archetypal ghost story, Frankenstein or *The Modern Prometheus has become synonymous with mad scientists and evil monsters. This seminal piece of writing has gone on to spawn a thousand imitations, lodging itself very firmly in everyday folklore that has a very special place in the modern day psyche ...  Read the complete review

Gothic horror has always been my favourite genre of novels and over my time I have read many fabulous examples. However Frankenstein is in a class that nothing can match.. The story is full of drama and excitement and a great pleasure to read. Many of you will have seen a version of the story, probably in film, but for those who haven?t, here ...  Read the complete review

for a woman whose mother was mary woolstonecraft (however you spell it) she has written a pretty damn good book here. i think it was the result of some bizarre competition with Lord Byron and her husband to create a sort of ghost story each. so there, it has some cult status too. the book really is good because it raises all sorts of ...  Read the complete review

t's probably best to disregard the vast majority of the Frankenstein films you've seen before reading this novel given that there will be very few that can live up to or emulate the brilliance of Mary Shelley's horrific progeny. Set against a tradition of Gothic literature, Frankenstein is the tale of how man exceeds the boundaries of ...  Read the complete review

In “Frankenstein” Dr Frankenstein, was trying to create an “artificial” life form, that would be stronger and more intelligent then a normal person, Frankenstein says, i quote “Life and death appeared to me iseal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into dark worlds. ...  Read the complete review

The Author Mary Shelley, born Mary Wollstonecraft in 1797, was brought up by her father but ran away to France at the age of 16 with the poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, whom she later married. It was whilst staying in Switzerland with Shelley and his friend Lord Byron that she began her most famous work; Frankenstein. It began life as her ...  Read the complete review

Frankenstein - the word itself conjures up images of a huge lumbering monster with bolts in either side of its neck that has just emerged from a slightly seedy tank full of electrical wires. Gee, not exactly what the book is about... Actually the creature we depict is the creator, Victor Frankenstein; the creature itself has no name and ...  Read the complete review

Frankenstein, although not as popular as Dracula, is a horror classic. It was created by Mary Shelley when she, her husband (Percy Bysshe Shelley, the poet) and a friend (Lord Byron) were exchanging ghost stories and later developed in to a complete book. The beginning (and end) takes the form of letters written from a sailor, Robert ...  Read the complete review

There is no story question, at least not until 30 or so pages into the book and Mary describes the obvious, throughout, apparently for no reason other than love of her own words. Early on, things are intentionally and unnecessarily vague as to the apparent protagonist's goals, motivations and situation; drawn out needlessly. Then we find ...  Read the complete review

Let me say straight away and to give credit where it is due, this book was written by a nineteen year old girl at a time when girls of that age were supposed to sit in the corner looking pretty and waiting for the right man to marry them. Mary Shelley of course came from sterner stuff. Mary's mother was effectively one of the first ...  Read the complete review

I decided to read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein because it is one of the most influential books ever written - creating, like Bram Stoker's Dracula, a horror figure that is known throughout the world. Interestingly, Frankenstein and Dracula also share the same style with the book told through characters journals and letters. Shelley wrote ...  Read the complete review