Rest Vs Frankenstein

The qualities of a well-read fiction novel, packed with a punch of just the right ingredients, and a list of long expectations, are difficult to define as each novel differs from one another in almost extreme lengths. Through the novels read in this class, I have found a comforting list of expectations, aside from the writing styles and concepts that are different from one another, for what I expect in a fiction novel that will stand higher than the rest. Amongst “the rest,” Pride and Prejudice and Frankenstein stood in their own world on levels of their own, but in my opinion, above the rest, we have read. They both had the ability to not only represent their genre, but they were each a side of a coin, the light and dark of their time, showing

Romance was always a heartache away, and priorities were led by their deep pockets, or lack thereof, and the women spun together in a web of complicated wants versus needs were given life by Austen's hand as she wrote their history and perspective. The emotional focus she brought was weaved and concealed through the society they all lived in, and the game they played to win the hand of the best well-off who had the ability to make their families well-off. The appeal her tale brought was highly appraised considering most women of her time were struggling with the same woes as Elizabeth Bennett and her sisters, and the audience became one who coveted the stories Austen provided as means to escape the lives chosen for them, as Elizabeth Bennett chose the life she wanted. With the form of reality molded around the fictitious world of love and choices, Elizabeth Bennett stood as a totem of hope, because in the end, she found the love she was looking for and the security her family yearned

Austen brought real romance into her story, the lives of her characters falling in love or battling the decision to not choose love for there are more important priorities for them to decide upon, but Shelley poses deeper themes of Romanticism into her work, such as Frankenstein, as an individual, who is against the grain of society, going against mother nature, and the beauty of life and death. Shelley brought forth a new form of thought and fantasy into a new world of love and individualism. Such as when the Monster is first brought to life, he was not evil by nature, he was a creature with the ability to think beyond his capacity and feel in large quantity, and a need to be loved and to give love. Society made him change, from anger and fear brought upon him for his outward