Comparing Shelley's Frankenstein Or The Modern Prometheus

In today’s society, we use electricity for everything. We use it for different things like making various appliances in our homes, stores and businesses to work, to advance and improve technology and help to make people lives better. It can also be used as a form of medical treatment. This form of treatment is called electrophysiology or galvanism during the 18th and 19th centuries. Electrophysiology is a part of physiology dealing with the electricity that is associated with body functions. It also became another term for galvanism that mentions the electrical activity in the heart or other vital organs by sending electricity through the heart and nervous system. If it was not for galvanism, it would not inspire people to create machines

Frankenstein was first told as a ghost story in 1816. The story was inspired by a description of a “walking dream” she had. She explains it more by saying“I saw… with shut eyes, but acute mental vision, I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together.” Shelley visualized a monster created from”charnel house scraps” and brought to life by a different form of science. The reason why she puts it in the story is that she wanted to write a story that will “frighten my readers as I myself had been frightened that night.” While writing Frankenstein, Shelley made diary entries to gather information of scientific background of galvanism for the novel by reading Humphry Davy’s Elements of Chemical Philosophy. Shelley had a lifetime interest in science and wanted to stay up to date with theories and experiments of the during that century. In 1818, Shelley was not credited for her novel until 1823. The reason behind it is because people said it gave science a bad look but a literary consultant named Betty Bennett defended her by saying “Mary used science as a metaphor for irresponsible actions and politics during her time. The novel was still considered low-culture because it was written and read by females, which was less respectable and taken with less seriousness. The only novels that were popular at the time were romantic and short stories, which made it hard for Frankenstein to be recommended. When few years had passed, people became interested in the novel. They were intrigued about how the monster struggles to find his place in an unknown human society and important questions of identity and personal history. Frankenstein started to be used as a metaphor to warn people about suspicious political