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Moreover, I also wanted to take advantage of this distinctive learning experience to furthermore discuss the multidimensionality and immense scope of kaleidescopic experiences that I was able to attain regarding the wealth of knowledge and tremendous scope of possibility that exists to best and most instinctually represent each of the respective creative parameters and foundational cornerstones which subsequently comprise the developmental and investigative processes which ultimately shape the iterative and experimental aspects of the construction process of a succcession of various artistic compositions utilizing an assortment of multi and mixed media methodologies of artistic execution to adaptively translate in a variety of artistic medias the specific symbological, meta and subtextual infererences that are inherently present within the literary source material of our choice and the one that I subsequently elected to explore for the purpose of my own personal and artistic enrichment as well as for the benefit of this wonderful project endeavor is that of the magnanimous and immensely incandescent Mary Wöllstoncraft Godwin Shelley's highly intellectually scintillating, scientifically and historically significant and spectacular metaphorically autobiographical and fantastical blend of Retrofuturistic Gothic Fiction, that of "Frankenstein: Or The Modern Prometheus."
One of the most culturally and historically significant literary works of Gothic Science Fiction which can be ascertained to be the first to amalagamate such imperative subgenres within a literary format during the wake of universal changes brought about via the first industrial revolution is that of “Frankenstein: Or The Modern Prometheus” singularly authored and envisioned by one of the most gifted novelists and paragons of the feminist movement to have ever challenged and defied the steretypical ideas and prejucides of her age, (“Mary Wöllstoncraft Godwin Shelley”) primarily explores the enormous complexity of the human condition human nature and identity. This extraordinary literary paragon, born Mary Wöllstoncraft Godwin Shelley originally hailed from Somers Town, London and was conceived on the 30th of August of the year 1797. Having been the second child of the feminist scholar, philosopher, essayist, educator and writer Mary Wöllstonecraft and having been the first child of the philosopher, novelist and journlist Sir. William Godwin, her mother unfortunately died of puerpural fever shortly after Mary was born and when the young Mary was only eleven days old. William Godwin was left to raise Mary along with her older half-sister from Mary Sr.'s previous relationship named "Fanny Imlay" who was the natural daughter of American speculist "Gilbert Imlay." In the subsequent year that followed Mary Sr.'s death, Sir. William found the necessary internal courage to publish his seminal work "Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" in the year after his wife's untimely passing, which was intended to be an impassioned and heart-felt post-mortem tribute to his wife, the late Mary Sr. This profoundly compassionate and touching literary compendium was unfortunately misinterpreted by Londonian society as posessing the sufficient grounds for extending their skepticism of the late Mary Sr. and projecting all of their negativity and ignorance unto their highly prodigious and intellectually gifted daughter Mary Godwin (later Mary Wöllstoncraft Godwin Shelley) who was on the receiving end of much prejudice and not privy to the biases that others had imposed unto her late mother and it was unfortunately because of the damaging nature of these opinions that Mary's half sister Fanny Imlay was also subject to much harsher criticism and contentious behaviors simply because she was the daughter of a previous relationship. As Mary grew in both wisdom and age, she sought to educate herself as much as possible by using her mother's book as a source of spiritual guidance, having first been taught how to read by her father Sir William by learning how to trace the letters of her mother's name as placed upon her gravestone. Furthermore, the young Mary's were marred by immense joy and happiness in spite of her father's grief, oftentimes enjoying a profoundly intellectually scintillating environment, Sir. William found himself within the necessity to recur to a marriage of convenience to Lady Mary Jane Clairmont, a socialite who had already borne children of her own. Despite innumerable criticisms from friends as attributed to Clairemont's temeperamental nature and often negative presence in the household, the marriage eventually proved successfully in a superficial sense, however as the years went by, Clairmont came to resent Mary's intellectual ambitions. Education played a crucial role in Mary's upbringing, albeit unconventional. Her father provided a broad education, exposing her to various intellectuals of the time, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Aaron Burr. While Mary lacked formal schooling, she received tutelage from her father and had access to a diverse library. Despite not strictly adhering to her mother's feminist philosophies, Mary received an advanced education for a girl of her era.
Mary's life took a significant turn in 1814 when she met Percy Bysshe Shelley, a radical poet, at her mother's graveside. Their clandestine meetings and subsequent elopement marked the beginning of a tumultuous relationship, further strained by financial troubles and societal disapproval.Their journey together led them through Europe, where Mary's creative talents blossomed. Inspired by a challenge from Lord Byron, Mary wrote her seminal work, "Frankenstein," which she expanded from a short story into a novel with Percy's encouragement. Tragedy struck Mary repeatedly, with the loss of her children and Percy's untimely death. Despite her personal struggles, Mary continued to write, contributing to her own legacy and that of her late husband.
Mary faced financial difficulties and social ostracism after Percy's death, but she remained dedicated to her writing and her son, Percy Florence. Despite challenges, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley emerged as a pioneering figure in English literature, leaving behind a legacy that continues to inspire readers and scholars alike.
The story in of istelf takes place in Geneva Switzerland in the eighteenth century and it is centered around the character Victor Frankenstein, an extremely brilliant yet dangerously ambitious and deeply unrepentantly self-aggradizing and narcisssistic medical professional who in immersing himself within the bioethical question of challenging and forecefully defying the natural order and barrier between life and death under the proposition of synthetically creating a human being of immense strength and proportions who is comprised of the limbs, organs and body parts of deceased individuals that have been meticulously stiched together in order to form the most ultimate symbol of scientific revolution and discovery Dr. Frankenstein unfortunately makes the impulsive and cowardly decision to abandon his depedant Creation who is in a state of moral and spiritual innocence comparable to that of a new-born and subconciously as well as negligently thrusts him into a world in which he experiences much cruelty and abandonment. The Creature is initially portrayed from the perspective of Victor as a being who is incapable of understanding human connections and is treated as though he were a mistake of life and poorly led to beleive that he himself is monstrous because he was born to appear and think differently from those who form part of the Genevan community and it is because of the social and physical prejudices that he is constantly confronted with that the Creature embarks upon a quest to find his Creator at any cost necesssary and to additionally implore him to create a female companion who can understand the unique nature of his existence and provide him with the love and affection that he himself never received from his own Creator nor from society.
The young Mary's incredibly close relationship with her father Sir William Godwin is widely believed to have been the primary narrative inspiration for the character of Mr. De Lacey, who is oftentimes referred to throughout the course of the novel's canonical structure as "The Blind Hermit", within the unique context of the story of "Frankenstein" as this character serves as the principal beacon of hope that remits the Creature to his own self-worth and who progressively permits him to express himself in an environment in which he is never once judged by him for his physical and intellectual differences because the elderly man himself comprehends the societal implications of belonging to a marginalized group. Because of the innumerable difficulties that his condition has thrusted upon him from the moment of his birth, such as the emotional challenges of not being able to see the world around him because of his visual affliction and the complex questions that individuals who are in the spectrum of blindness are confronted with; such as the question of their own identity and the definition of this semblance of identity that is neither dictated by their condition nor by the self-proposed limitations that exist beyond such a difficult challenge, Mr. De Lacey is an extraordinarily prodigious and profoundly versatile and inventive musician, artesan and mechanical craftsman and as his relationship with The Creature starts to take place after the inciting incident that sparks the culmination of the last act and allows the story to flow cohesively and brilliantly into the second and much more philosophically complex and ethically inquisitive portion of the second act which is much more reflective and cerebral in the nature of its contents, The Creature continously starts to reveal to the audience that he had been observing the De Lacey family from afar and has been learning behavioral and social conducts and patterns of speech from them and complementing this knowledge in congruence to his findings in Dr. Victor Frankenstein's journal and his reading of the epistolary epic poems of John Milton, more specifically that of "Paradise Lost" which was a highly ambitious poem that depicted the story of Genesis and the biblical account of the creation of the world as written in the words of Milton and transcribed by his daughters, who served as his amanuensis (or his transcribers who would plasmate the contents of the poems as they were being dictated to them) as Milton, like Mr. De Lacey also suffered from blindness in a manner that was similar to the context in which Mr. De Lacey's relationship with the eponymous Creature is portrayed in, as the Creature additionally serves to be his companion and an individual who can empathize greatly with his plight. Like Mr. De Lacey, the Creature aches for human connection and longs to be truly seen for who he is as a person beyond his physical differences. As the Creature posesses the ability to see, what becomes paradoxical to him is that he has unfortunately only been exposed to the sight of the horrors of the world as they are being extended to him because of the cruelty of humanity whilst in contrast, Mr. De Lacey does not have the capability to see because of his condition, but he is capable of seeing a manner of extraordinary and beautiful things in his reality and in the world around him in a manner that transcends physical sight. It is also interesting to denote that in the English language, the phrase "Turning a blind-eye" towards someone or something is almost exclusively used in a net negative context in a manner that almost always implicates a specific level of social indifference and yet The Creature finds a tremendous amount of solace and reciprocity in the works of blind men, both those of Milton as an author as well as those of Mr. De Lacey, whose affection towards and friendship with the Creature hone such an immensely positive impact in his life to the extent that he he ultimately became the paternal figure that the Creature never had, but always desired to find in Victor Frankenstein. Conversely, Victor Frankenstein is a man who is continously portrayed as an individual of enormous cognitive intelligence and social charisma in spite of his evident detachment from humanity but he becomes so incredibly short-sighted to the extent that his intellectual ambitions are so grandiose that he is in many ways, ideologically "blind" towards the notion of human suffering. He is a person who claims to want to put an end to the grievances and mourning processes of other people because what he claims to achieve scientifically does sound like a superficially humanitarian contribution and that specific definition of our judgement towards him as the audience is completely asserted. Like The Creature, Mary's suffering primarily stemmed from a place of profound grief and solitude with the intersecting events of the exacerbation of her post-partum depression and the loss of her child, the late Clara Evelina "Sofia" Shelley who only unfortunately lived for twelve days ensuing her conception until she was overcome with the Scarlet Fever, an affliction that directly mirrors the symptoms of drowning which was how her father Percey, perished in the future, further contributing to her social stigmatization with many individuals observing her from afar but not truly "seeing her" for the immensity of her literary gifts and talents and for her extraordinary compassion and understanding of the human experience and because of the nature of her relationship to her husband Percey Bysshe Shelley, she was unfortunately confronted with profound difficulties and social stigma with individuals only seeing faults in her when her own father, who in spite of having disowned her because of her relationship to Shelley was still the only person who even remotely understood her apart from her half-sister and best friend Claire Clairemont and John William Polidori, the father of Gothic Vampiric Fiction and is creditted as having been the first author to have ever endeavored to have established and truly revolutionized the iconography of the Modern Vampire Archetype that has become synonymized with modern horror and gothic literary tropes and he was both a physician and writer serving as Lord Byron's primary medical steward and advisor. Like in her healing relationships with her father Sir Godwin and with her half-sister Lady Claire Clairemont, Mary found profound solace and healing in her extraordinary friendship with the young Doctor Polidori, whose presence provided and represented a sense of immense comfort and a stability during times of emotional and personal trauma and upheaval.
His unwavering emotional and intellectual support further allowed Mary to cope with the grief and solitude of having lost her infant daughter Clara as well as from her tumultuous relationship with Percey Bysshe Shelley whose reckless intentions to flee from the creditors that were pursuing him, Clairemont, Mary and the Baby Clara amid the harsh tempestuous Londonian climate, is utimately believed to having unintentionally incremented the chances of his child's ultimely and truly devastating passing. Polidori was a beloved friend and trusted confidant of Mary's who continued to offer her indispensable succur and encouragemnet in her emerging literary pursuits. As Mary was relatively younger than Polidori, she came to perceive him as a kindred spirit and older brother figure who would seek to always recognize her immesurable potential as a writer and artist and despite the societal biases against female writers, Polidori himself recognized Mary's immense talent and potential and a writer, further encouraging her to continue to hone her craft. As a fellow intellectual and writer, Polidori engaged with Mary in stimulating and enlightening discussions as well as in various creative collaborations with Mary, additionally providing her with a sense of mutual camaraderie and self-belief, allowing her to utilize her first efforts to execute the manuscript of Frankenstein as a vehicle for profound emotional healing and of immense autobiographical catharsis.
