Throughout the novel, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley predominantly reflects values upheld Victorian English Society more-so than shaping the values. Firstly, an example of a reflected value is the concept of a pursuit of knowledge in the novel. Another example of a reflected value in the text is the use of Romanticism throughout the novel. Chauvinism is also a reflected value contained within the text in which the creation lacks a 'motherly' figure. On the other hand, …
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…today's society. However these values are mostly reflections of values from within the context the book was written. However perhaps her most significant value, Man vs. Nature, was a value in which Shelley herself shaped. The book was written at a time when both the Romanticist and Gothicism 'era's' were at their respective peaks, therefore the value of the text, which has lasted two centuries, is seen as the reflection of those two time periods.