This website is a final term project for English 149 (Techno-Romanticism) at San Jose State University, Fall of 2009. The site is based on Vol. II Ch. 1 of Mary Wollstoncraft Shelley's Frankenstein. Deborah Godinez Professional Scholar e-mail goborahd@yahoo.com Under the Supervision of Dr. Katherine D. Harris Themes of website: (within the Frankenstein sphere)
 Where it all began:I shall use the following quote to support the ideas that circumvent this website: "The next day we pursued our journey upon mules; and as we ascended still higher, the valley assumed a more magnificent and astonishing character. Ruined castles hanging on the precipices of piny mountains; the impetuous Arve, and cottages every here and there peeping forth from among the trees, formed a scene of singular beauty. But it was augmented and rendered sublime by the mighty Alps, whose white and shining pyramids and domes towered above all, as belonging to another earth, the habitations of another race of beings (68)." The highlighted part can relate to Wollstoncraft's address if one regards the "mighty Alps" as the "Elite" who are disproportionate to the rest of the populace. In this respect Victor and his family are becoming aware of what is actual. The scene describes an enlightened moment brought upon by nature. The quote supports the idea that Wollstoncraft's vision of mankind may have been stored inside many imaginations during the Romantic period. In this case, Victor is the speaker but Shelley as Victor's creator produces Frankenstein after becoming closely familiar with her mother's work. Mary Shelley's imagination conceded which direction humanity takes in relationship to; the artificial, the scientific, the technologic with in the parameters of the gothic novel. Throughout nature everything has a course. Man's ability to become more superior than the previous generation is evidence that the Romantics held an astonishing insight into the future.  "My imagination unbidden, possessed and guided me, gifting the successive images that arose in my mind with a vividness far beyond the usual bounds of reverie."-------Mary Shelley |