Essay on Shelleys Frankenstein and Miltons Paradise Lost

Shelleys Frankenstein and Miltons Paradise Lost Even upon first glance, bloody shame Shelleys Frankenstein and John Miltons Paradise Lost calculate to have a tortuous relationship, which is discernible only in fractions at a time. Frankenstein is bloody shame Shelleys chemical reaction to John Miltons epic poem, in which he wrote the Creation myth as we perceive it today. His characterizations of Adam and Eve and the interactions of Satan and God and the impending ruination seem to have almost taken a Biblical dimension by themselves. By the time that Mary Shelley read Paradise Lost, it was so a stalwart in the canon of English Literature, so it should not come as a surprise to the referee the it should play much(prenominal) a large part in her construction of the Frankenstein myth, which has become an prototypal ghost story on its own. What makes each of these narratives so fascinating to the reader is the author/authoresses innate ability to use the ultimate struggle -- th at mingled with God and Satan (or Good and Evil) -- which in turn involves the reader in a most personal manner. The characters in Paradise Lost, which is chronologically first, and Frankenstein, seem to appear over and over as aspects of themselves and other characters. The essence of these characters is on the surface relatively bland, but when aspects of Satan start to enter manhood and they reconfigure each other, the interest picks up rapidly. Shelleys use of these characters is drastically different than that of Milton. Mary Shelley was a product of the 19th Century, when Romanticism, the Gothic Aesthetic, and Science took the forefront of westward Culture. Miltons era was different there was little secularization, and religious change was over as the Protestant ... ...2. Elledge, Scott, ed. Paradise Lost. By John Milton. 1674. New York Norton, 1993. Fish, Stanley. stripping as Form in Paradise Lost. Elledge 526-36. Ide, Richard S. On the Uses of Elizabethan playing p eriod The Revaluation of Epic in Paradise Lost. Milton Studies 17 (1983) 121-37. Martindale, Charles. John Milton and the interlingual rendition of Ancient Epic. London Croom Helm, 1986. Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley. Her Life, her Fiction, her Monsters. Methuen. New York, London, 1988. Milton, John. Paradise Lost. Elledge 3-304. Shawcross, John T. The superstar of Paradise Lost One More Time. Patrick and Sundell 137-47. Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus. emended with an Introduction and notes by Maurice Hindle. Penguin books, 1992 Steadman, John M. Miltons Biblical and Classical Imagery. Pittsburgh Duquesne UP, 1984.