Question: Is Frankenstein a critique or admiration of Romantic Ideology? Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is both a critique and an admiration of Romantic beliefs and ideologies. Examples of Romantic Ideologies are present throughout most of the novel, along with both the truthfulness and admiration in such ideals, and the detrimental effects that these ideals impose on society. Mary Shelley uses the story of Frankenstein as a warning of such Romantic Ideals by demonstrating the negative …
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…have been incorporated into warnings by Mary Shelley, where such Ideologies lead to cases of destruction and death. However Rousseau's idea of the 'Noble Savage' is admired and supported by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by the emphasis that is placed on this one idea. The idea is represented through one of the main characters, the creature, and is constant throughout the entire novel. Both criticism and support of Romantic Ideologies is evident in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.