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many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me”. Victor Frankenstein is a romantic character to the extent that he reflected the romantic writers? emphasis on a new way of seeing. The romantics believed that it was individual and collective visual imagination that would create a new understanding of the world and lead to a more perfect version of human beings and the societies in which they lived. Victor is the ultimate dreamer, who is preoccupied by otherworldly concerns and unattainable ideals. In this sense, he is highly romantic. Beyond character portrayals, however, there are several important romantic themes and ideas that are presented in Frankenstein. First, as this thesis statement for Frankenstein and Romanticism suggests, nature plays an important role in Frankenstein, although to the reader familiar with romantic poetry, it may seem that nature is somewhat less important or less central than the role it plays, for example, in the poetry of Percy Shelley, or in the romanticism examples of poetry of Wordsworth, and Coleridge. Noheless, from the novel?s opening, the importance of the reader getting a sense of physical place is established by situating the text within a particular environment, the qualities of which will both mirror and contradict the inner states of the main characters. Victor notes that the landscape of the Orkneys and that of his native country are quite distinct. His description of the Orkneys is cold, barren, gray, and rough. In contrast, he recalls Switzerland as colorful and lively. He describes the Swiss hills in true Romanticism form as covered with verdant vines and the landscape as teeming with blue lakes that reflect the brilliant blue sky. The final parison that he draws is between the winds of each place. In Switzerland, the winds are “but…the play of a lively infant”, not the tormented sea squalls that batter the rock face of the Orkneys. It is symbolic, of course, that Victor has chosen such a barren place to create the panion for the Creature. The contrast between the two places is as stark and distinct as the differences between Frankenstein39。 thus made it such a miserable wretch in the world. The revenge reflected the monster?s fight for his right. Once he survived as Oedipus did, he would demand his own right of happiness. However, it was reasonable for him to ask for him to ask for his betterment. When he was refused of this basic request, he would naturally take revenge. When God found that Adam was alone in the Garden of Eden, he created a female “ Eve” for him so that he could have a pany. The creation of a female monster in Frankenstein was an interesting reflection of that. The monster demanded Frankenstein to create a female for him so that he could have someone loving him in the world. Frankenstein had no idea but to do what the monster had requested. However, he was afraid of the result of his experiment. Therefore, he destroyed the female monster before she came to life that caused the monster?s revenge on Frankenstein. Frankenstein did so for human betterment because if the female monster became alive, she could possibly be more vicious than the male monster. The end of this novel shows Mary Shelley?s fear about the scientific experiments and her pessimistic point of view. of Romantic Elements in Frankenstein Introduction of Romanticism Romanticism was a movement in literature, philosophy, music and art which developed in Europe in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Starting from the ideas of Rousseau in France and from the Storm and Stress movement in Germany. Romanticism emphasized individual values and aspirations above those of society. As a reaction to the industrial revolution, it looked to the Middle Ages and to direct contact with nature for inspiration. Romanticism gave impetus to the national liberation movement in 19th century Europe. It wasn?t long before Romantic ideas began popping up in the United States. Well know American writers including Edgar Allen Poe, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson helped shape the literary world of the burgeoning United States. Romantic literature focuses on nature, emotion, love and fear. Romantic writers include Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Mary Shelly and Emily Bronte English romanticism was an up and ing craze during the 17th and 18th centuries, as it emerged, the world was taken by it39。 his creation of life will also create light just as Prometheus both created life and introduced light with the gift of fire. If Frankenstein is Prometheus then he is Prometheus without a Zeus. The enemy who eventually brings about Frankenstein?s destruction is himself. Prometheus failed due to his presumption in stealing knowledge from the gods. Frankenstein sees this presumption as being his only fault, he refers to the monster as ?the living monument of presumption and rash ignorance?, but the reader can identify that his real failure is a moral collapse caused by his inability to love his creation. Frankenstein created his creature to be beautiful and benevolent but as soon as he was animated the doctor looked at him with horror and fled from him leaving him to fend for himself, with no idea of how the world worked, how to feed himself or even how to municate. This creator does not consider himself to have an obligation to his creation, in fact after the creature leaves his house Frankenstein considers that ?All these employments are now at an end and that I am at length free?. When Prometheus created man he strove to watch over his creation. In Prometheus Unbound this desire to protect his humans is the reason given for Prometheus?s theft of the eternal fire. The destruction of Frankenstein is caused by his own shortings and lack of humanity towards his creation