acon, Locke, and Newton and asks that instead we be clothed with Imagination: "To cast aside form Poetry all that is not Inspiration,/ That it no longer shall dare to mock with the aspersion of Madness."
Mary W. Shelley's novel is not merely a horror story but is also a philosophical novel which develops a number of themes related to the virtues of nature, a Romantic era notion, and the relationship of man to God. Shelley never says how the monster is brought to life. She does not detail this massive array of equipment but only hints at the terrible things Frankenstein must do to acquire the parts he needs. The one thing he must do is go against God, to go against Nature, and for this he must be exiled. His acts lead to the deaths of several other people, and the monster he has created is the shadow he chases far into the icy regions of the north. His last contact with civilization is with the captain of the frigate trapp
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