![]() The metaphor of Frankenstein can be still used in our modern world, as an images that very well pictures many aspects of our own life today, the imbroglio between life, science, technologies that we are all experiencing on our own skin, and in our very daily life. ![]() Indeed, more than two hundred years after its publication, her most known work “Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus” still speaks to us directly as a myth about contemporary life. Thanks to Mary Shelley’s talent and vocation, she was the creator of the archetype of doctor Victor Frankenstein and of his creature, the powerful and flexible images that talks about what life really is and what death really is. Later on, Mary herself lost many of her children, and she experienced the loss of the love of her life. Her personal story has been entangled with the idea of death since her very first days: her own mother died few days after giving birth to Mary. She was strong, rebel, intelligent and a writer, a mother, a person who suffered many losses in her entire life. ![]() As the daughter of William Godwin (radical philosopher) and Mary Wollstonecraft (women rights activist and author), Mary Shelley, has been the youngest author of the Romanticism literature. ![]()
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