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Mary Shelley’s, , was written during a period of dramatic revolution. The failed French Revolution and Industrial Revolution seriously mark the novel with hints of moral and scientific revolution. Through , Shelley sends out a clear message that morally irresp ....

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.... believes that through these new scientific powers human kind would be served with a positive effect. Disease could be banished and self glory could result. "what glory would attend the discovery if I could banish disease from the human frame and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death"(40)! Shelley characterizes as a modern a mad scientist. One who fails to look at the moral and social implications when attempting to play god. gets obsessed with the power to master nature and create a new life. In creating life, and ultimately the creature, Victor seeks unlimited power to the extent that he is taking the place of god in relati ....