Godfrey Okafor
Arthur: Robert Louis Stevenson
Born: November 13, 1850, Edinburgh
Died: December 3, 1894, Vailima, Samoa
Date: 3/5/16
Biography: Robert Louis Stevenson was born to Scottish Engineer Thomas Stevenson and mother Margaret Stevenson. Robert’s Grandfather and father were both light house engineers, infact, his father invented the rotating lights, making their family rather wealthy. As a growing child lewis went on several family holidays which not only opened up his mind to the vast world but gave him a chance to enjoy the scenery and have adventures which were inspirations for his novels such as ‘Treasure Island’ he was to write several years later. When Louis or ‘Lewis’ as it was commonly pronounced by his family, was seventeen,
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women in this era had few legal rights and had limited opportunities for education. Women were and expected to be delicate, gentle, prissy and reliant on men (weak). Mary Shelley plays on this exploit in her book ‘frankenstein’, considered one of her best piece, the character Elizabeth is depicted as the epitome of a victorian woman, beautiful in sight and elegant in her actions.
‘Frankenstein’ contains a lot of political and controversial topic which were not being discussed during the victorian period, such as abortion. Abortion in the sense that Victor Frankenstein has created life and saw it in his eyes as evil and seeks to destroy it even though he is unable.
Style: Mary Shelley style of writing is that forged from a young age with parents of high literary ability, she began by learning how to compose letters and write short stories such as Mounseer Nongtongpaw by the age of ten which were then published by her father. with her travels to places like switzerland and her unique perspective on the world encouraged by her husband Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley wrote ‘Frankenstein’ basing the scenery of that of victorian switzerland and character of stereotypes. The perspective in some of Mary’s works such as ‘Frankenstein’ are quite indecisive, there is is no omniscient narrator rather it starts of a collective of letter and evolves to lesser characters narrating their perspective through letter they