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The Idea Of Human Nature Present In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, a gothic frame narrative that is told by three different narrators. It is based upon the life of Victor Frankenstein, and also includes the lives of a creature he created and a North Pole explorer Robert Walton. This source is biased in the views that the characters have of one another, but overall objective with respect to the characters because all viewpoints are given in the novel. Shelley however showed the lives of all the characters to serve as foils to one another. The actions and nature of the characters are merely gothic versions of real life actions would have been. Due to the relations between the characters, surroundings, and their beliefs, one can prove that the idea of human nature present in Frankenstein
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