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The plot of this show just does not seem like it would work. Mary Shelley did lead an interesting life, but it does not really fit in with the heart of the Frankenstein story very well. The take on industrialization does not really have a direct correlation with her life. If they were to careful pick aspects of the novel to include in the play, then it may work, but I just don't see it happening.
A lot of discrete events in Frankenstein are reflections of actual events that occurred in her life. Shelley herself was motherless (like Frankenstein), expressed desire to reanimate a lost child (she had suffered miscarriages throughout her life), and a father turning on an offspring.
When Shelley set out to write Frankenstein, she had no intent as to what the story was going to tell. What resulted was a narrative that expressed the apprehension and anxiety of the Victorian Era; Themes of technology versus control, Godlessness in the age of religion, and the reversal of the Victorian worldview are all present in this work.
That being said, it's a pretty old idea. I guess it could be interesting, maybe, but it seems that whoever is interested in this sort of topic has already exhausted it. My professor for 19th Century Cultural Studies was pretty turned off by any research paper having anything to do with Frankenstein and Shelley theory.
I think this a very interesting idea to explore. I also find it to be a very feministic take on the Frankenstein story. Often its easy to forget that one of the classic horror stories was written by a woman. I think discovering her journey and story would make a captivating theatre piece.
I think the idea of intertwining the stories of Mary Shelley and her novel, "Frankenstein", together is fascinating. I am a fan of the book and am interested to see how this will pan out. I agree with Megan that it will be refreshing to inject feminine figures into a male dominated story in which the women are merely props.
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The plot of this show just does not seem like it would work. Mary Shelley did lead an interesting life, but it does not really fit in with the heart of the Frankenstein story very well. The take on industrialization does not really have a direct correlation with her life. If they were to careful pick aspects of the novel to include in the play, then it may work, but I just don't see it happening.
You're pretty much wrong.
A lot of discrete events in Frankenstein are reflections of actual events that occurred in her life. Shelley herself was motherless (like Frankenstein), expressed desire to reanimate a lost child (she had suffered miscarriages throughout her life), and a father turning on an offspring.
When Shelley set out to write Frankenstein, she had no intent as to what the story was going to tell. What resulted was a narrative that expressed the apprehension and anxiety of the Victorian Era; Themes of technology versus control, Godlessness in the age of religion, and the reversal of the Victorian worldview are all present in this work.
That being said, it's a pretty old idea. I guess it could be interesting, maybe, but it seems that whoever is interested in this sort of topic has already exhausted it. My professor for 19th Century Cultural Studies was pretty turned off by any research paper having anything to do with Frankenstein and Shelley theory.
I think this a very interesting idea to explore. I also find it to be a very feministic take on the Frankenstein story. Often its easy to forget that one of the classic horror stories was written by a woman. I think discovering her journey and story would make a captivating theatre piece.
I think the idea of intertwining the stories of Mary Shelley and her novel, "Frankenstein", together is fascinating. I am a fan of the book and am interested to see how this will pan out. I agree with Megan that it will be refreshing to inject feminine figures into a male dominated story in which the women are merely props.
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