Mary Wollstonecraft

We may begin with an examination of Shelley's work. Often considered to be a work of Gothic fiction, it is a much more finely and complexly crafted novel than are most examples of this genre - so much more skillfully formed that in many way it transcends the genre entirely. While on one level the novel (published in 1818) is in fact a story about a prototypical "mad scientist" who creates a monster that eventually kills him, it is also a serious investigation into the nature of the human soul. Shelley clearly intended that the true level of horror in the book should not be this death but the investigation of what it means to be human and the terrible things that we might each do - and in turn have done to us - if we were somehow to lose that quality of ourselves that sets us off from all other living creatures as uniquely human.

Shelley's novel investigates some of the most important questions that humans face: Are people born innocent or corrupted? (And

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