Creativity, a formative and vital part of literature is marked by an irresistible urge to look at its methodologies and surrounding realities from a changed perspective. Before analyzing a fiction, it is necessary to know the answer to the question ‘What is literature?’ In most cases, literature is referred to as the entirety of written expressions, with the restriction that not every written document can be categorized as literature in the more exact sense of the word.
Literary works serve as a food for thought and a tonic for imagination and creativity. One can understand life through the reading of such literary works. In that sense, literature has sometimes connection with reality and at the same time with imagination. The complex patterns of life and its methodologies are flooded into our senses through the literary works. Literary works also help the reader to build up a much wider range of knowledge, creating interest in new subjects and experiences. Literature provides vicarious experiences that directly influences readers’ lives. They can visit both the past and the future through the imaginative power of stories. In fact, literature allows its readers to perceive and empathize with the experiences of others. It may teach, mould, and enlighten.
Literature is the foundation of life. It places an emphasis on many topics from human tragedies to tales of the ever- popular search for love. While it is physically written in words, these words come alive in the imagination of the mind, and its ability to comprehend the complexity or simplicity of the text. Literature enables people to see through the lenses of others, and sometimes even inanimate objects. Therefore, it becomes a looking glass into the world as others view it. It is a journey that is inscribed in pages, and powered by the imagination of the reader. Ultimately, literature has provided a gateway to teach the reader about life experiences from even the saddest stories to the most joyful ones that will touch their hearts.
Literature helps to discover the true importance of situations from many perspectives. It is impossible to switch bodies with another human being, and it is impossible to completely understand the complexity of this world. Literature, as an alternative is the closest thing the world has to being able to understand another person whole- heartedly. For instance, a novel about a treacherous war, written in the perspective of a soldier, allows the reader to envision their memories, their pain, and their emotions without actually being that person. Consequently, literature can act as a time machine, enabling individuals to go in to a specific time period of the story, into the mind and soul of the protagonist. With the ability to see the world with a pair of fresh eyes, it triggers the reader to reflect upon their own lives. Reading a material that is relatable to the reader may teach them morals and encourage them to practice good judgement. An example would be William Shakespeare’s stories, where each one is meant to be reflective of human nature- both good and bad. Consequently, this can promote better judgment of situations. So the reader does not find themselves in the same circumstances as perhaps those in the fictional world. Henceforth, literature is proven to not only be reflective of life, but it can also be used as a guide for the reader to follow and practice good judgement.
Literary writings are essentially expressions of reality of human life and great pieces of literature depict that reality with communicable, lucid language facilitating narrative with reader’s aesthetic and literary sense. Literature has been widely categorized as the body of written works of a language, period or culture produced by scholars and researchers, specialized in a given field. Literature is not just a description of day to day life, it is crafted in a way that adds and reveals something about life. It creates an occasion to face with the inevitable aspects of life such as lives and thoughts, sorrow and pleasure, fears and desires of people who lived hundreds of years before us.
Literature is a very strong medium in igniting a fire in everyone to rise up and voice their different standards of different places. English literature dates back to more than five centuries. It represents writers are not only from different parts of the world and time periods, but it covers every major genre and style of writing as well. English literature deals with universal themes and values that helps us to grow in our everyday lives. It also teaches us about different time periods and faraway places.
The genre novel was nourished in the hands of English authors. Novel is in fact a medium which is crafted in front of the readers. Through this genre, the novelist can present anything according to his own will. Fictions are imaginative and sometimes they have a resemblance with the real life.
There are hundreds of literary masterpieces in this field. Some achieve a culminating degree of perfection in the framing of new methods. There are different types of novels: Some of them are, Picaresque novel: relates the adventure of a rogue or low born adventurer as he drifts from place to place and from one social milieu to another in his effort to survive; Historical novels: whose story is set during a period that predates the author’s own time, often by a significant number of years; Gothic fiction: combines the elements of both horror and romance; Bildungsroman: focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from childhood to adulthood; Science fiction: represents an imagined reality that is radically different in its nature and functioning from the world of our ordinary experience; Epistolary novels: are novels told through the medium of letters written by one or more of a journal become popular in the 18th century in the works of such authors as Mary Shelley with her successful novel, Frankenstein.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, a towering figure in the Victorian era, is the most talented women writer who incorporated many types of novels, such as Epistolary, Gothic as well as Science fiction. Mary Shelley is not only known as the wife of Percey Byssche Shelley, but also as the daughter of the celebrated radical writer Mary Wollstonecraft and the equally well known novelist and political philosopher William Godkin. Even the sole recognition won by her own efforts, of her great novel Frankenstein (1818), is tainted by popular associations with stage and cinema versions of ‘Modern Prometheus’.
Mary Shelley is the author of other five novels. Valperga; or The Life and Adventure of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca (1823), is a romance set in 14th century Italy which was published after Frankenstein. Valperga is a historical novel which relates the adventures of the early 14th century despot Castruccio Castrcani, a real historical figure who became the Lord of Lucca and conquered Florence. In the novel, his armies threaten the fictional fortress of Valpergia, governed by Countess Euthanasia, the woman he loves. He forces her to choose between her feelings for him and political liberty. Mary Shelley chooses the latter and sails off to her death. Valperga was actually judged as a love story and its ideological and political framework overlooked.
The Last Man (1826), is an apocalyptic science fiction set in future in the latter part of the 21st century. It is a book about death. Mary Shelley turned her personal grief into the end of the world. In The Last Man the death of her husband, her children, and her friends are transformed into the complete extinction of the human species. The book tells of a future world that has been ravaged by a plague. The Last Man serves as a semi- biographical work and serves as a tribute to Shelley’s deceased friends and explores Shelley’s own feelings of isolation after their loss.
Perkin Warbeck (1830): a historical romance heaving the influence of Walter Scott, addresses the historically contentious theory that the Duke of York (the younger of the two Princes imprisoned in the tower and allegedly put to death by Richard II) was the same person as the rebel leader Perkin Warbeck. The change of direction from ‘Gothicism’ in Frankenstein to historical romance in Perkin Warbeck is notable. This book takes a Yorkist point of view and proceeds from the conceit that Perkin Warbeck died in childhood and the supposed imposter was indeed Richard of Shrewsbury. Henry VII of England is repeatedly described as a “friend” who hates Elizabeth of York, his wife and Richard’s sister, and the future Henry VII, mentioned only twice in the novel, is a vile youth who abuses the dogs. Her preface establishes that records of the Tower of Landon, as well as the histories of Edward Hall, Raphael Holinshed, and Francis Bacon, are printed in the appendix to John Pinkerton’s History of Scotland to establish this as a fact.
Then followed Lodore (1835), under the title The Beautiful Widow, is the penultimate novel of Mary which returns to the theme of primitivism evident in Frankenstein and The Last Man. The novel is about Lord Lodore who marries a young woman. Fraser’s Magazine praised it’s “depth and sweep of thought”.
Her sixth and last novel Falkner (1837), was composed during the year of her father’s death, an event that clearly influenced the novel’s primary plot line, which concerns the father-daughter relation between Falkner and his adopted charge, Elizabeth. There is no indication that the story is not as modern and up to date as it could be in 1838. The last chapter portrays Mary Shelley’s carrier.
Mary Shelley’s literary fountain is confined not only to the field of fiction, but also to a skilled editor and a critic, an influential travel writer, a literary historian, author of several autobiographies, a dabbler in verse as well as in the new genre of short story.
Mary Shelley’s travel book Ramplesin Germany and Italy (1844) is published in two volumes. The text describes two European trips that Mary Shelley took with her son, Percey Florence Shelley, and several of his university friends. Shelley describes her journey as a pilgrimage, which will help cure her depression.
There is some warrant for seeing Mary Shelley as a reflection of her parents, for both mother and father were extra ordinary. Her mother Mary Wollstonecraft published the classic manifesto of sexual equality, A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792). Her father William Godkin established his pre-eminence in radical British political thought with his novel Caleb Williams (1794) often considered as the first English detective novel.
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus is the story of Victor Frankenstein. The name ‘Frankenstein’ is often been used to refer to the monster. The main essence of the story is the discovery of a monstrous creature by Victor Frankenstein. The second most important character in this novel is Robert Walton. Through Watson’s letters to his sister, he gets the ideal picture of this novel.
Literary works serve as a food for thought and a tonic for imagination and creativity. One can understand life through the reading of such literary works. In that sense, literature has sometimes connection with reality and at the same time with imagination. The complex patterns of life and its methodologies are flooded into our senses through the literary works. Literary works also help the reader to build up a much wider range of knowledge, creating interest in new subjects and experiences. Literature provides vicarious experiences that directly influences readers’ lives. They can visit both the past and the future through the imaginative power of stories. In fact, literature allows its readers to perceive and empathize with the experiences of others. It may teach, mould, and enlighten.
Literature is the foundation of life. It places an emphasis on many topics from human tragedies to tales of the ever- popular search for love. While it is physically written in words, these words come alive in the imagination of the mind, and its ability to comprehend the complexity or simplicity of the text. Literature enables people to see through the lenses of others, and sometimes even inanimate objects. Therefore, it becomes a looking glass into the world as others view it. It is a journey that is inscribed in pages, and powered by the imagination of the reader. Ultimately, literature has provided a gateway to teach the reader about life experiences from even the saddest stories to the most joyful ones that will touch their hearts.
Literature helps to discover the true importance of situations from many perspectives. It is impossible to switch bodies with another human being, and it is impossible to completely understand the complexity of this world. Literature, as an alternative is the closest thing the world has to being able to understand another person whole- heartedly. For instance, a novel about a treacherous war, written in the perspective of a soldier, allows the reader to envision their memories, their pain, and their emotions without actually being that person. Consequently, literature can act as a time machine, enabling individuals to go in to a specific time period of the story, into the mind and soul of the protagonist. With the ability to see the world with a pair of fresh eyes, it triggers the reader to reflect upon their own lives. Reading a material that is relatable to the reader may teach them morals and encourage them to practice good judgement. An example would be William Shakespeare’s stories, where each one is meant to be reflective of human nature- both good and bad. Consequently, this can promote better judgment of situations. So the reader does not find themselves in the same circumstances as perhaps those in the fictional world. Henceforth, literature is proven to not only be reflective of life, but it can also be used as a guide for the reader to follow and practice good judgement.
Literary writings are essentially expressions of reality of human life and great pieces of literature depict that reality with communicable, lucid language facilitating narrative with reader’s aesthetic and literary sense. Literature has been widely categorized as the body of written works of a language, period or culture produced by scholars and researchers, specialized in a given field. Literature is not just a description of day to day life, it is crafted in a way that adds and reveals something about life. It creates an occasion to face with the inevitable aspects of life such as lives and thoughts, sorrow and pleasure, fears and desires of people who lived hundreds of years before us.
Literature is a very strong medium in igniting a fire in everyone to rise up and voice their different standards of different places. English literature dates back to more than five centuries. It represents writers are not only from different parts of the world and time periods, but it covers every major genre and style of writing as well. English literature deals with universal themes and values that helps us to grow in our everyday lives. It also teaches us about different time periods and faraway places.
The genre novel was nourished in the hands of English authors. Novel is in fact a medium which is crafted in front of the readers. Through this genre, the novelist can present anything according to his own will. Fictions are imaginative and sometimes they have a resemblance with the real life.
There are hundreds of literary masterpieces in this field. Some achieve a culminating degree of perfection in the framing of new methods. There are different types of novels: Some of them are, Picaresque novel: relates the adventure of a rogue or low born adventurer as he drifts from place to place and from one social milieu to another in his effort to survive; Historical novels: whose story is set during a period that predates the author’s own time, often by a significant number of years; Gothic fiction: combines the elements of both horror and romance; Bildungsroman: focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from childhood to adulthood; Science fiction: represents an imagined reality that is radically different in its nature and functioning from the world of our ordinary experience; Epistolary novels: are novels told through the medium of letters written by one or more of a journal become popular in the 18th century in the works of such authors as Mary Shelley with her successful novel, Frankenstein.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, a towering figure in the Victorian era, is the most talented women writer who incorporated many types of novels, such as Epistolary, Gothic as well as Science fiction. Mary Shelley is not only known as the wife of Percey Byssche Shelley, but also as the daughter of the celebrated radical writer Mary Wollstonecraft and the equally well known novelist and political philosopher William Godkin. Even the sole recognition won by her own efforts, of her great novel Frankenstein (1818), is tainted by popular associations with stage and cinema versions of ‘Modern Prometheus’.
Mary Shelley is the author of other five novels. Valperga; or The Life and Adventure of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca (1823), is a romance set in 14th century Italy which was published after Frankenstein. Valperga is a historical novel which relates the adventures of the early 14th century despot Castruccio Castrcani, a real historical figure who became the Lord of Lucca and conquered Florence. In the novel, his armies threaten the fictional fortress of Valpergia, governed by Countess Euthanasia, the woman he loves. He forces her to choose between her feelings for him and political liberty. Mary Shelley chooses the latter and sails off to her death. Valperga was actually judged as a love story and its ideological and political framework overlooked.
The Last Man (1826), is an apocalyptic science fiction set in future in the latter part of the 21st century. It is a book about death. Mary Shelley turned her personal grief into the end of the world. In The Last Man the death of her husband, her children, and her friends are transformed into the complete extinction of the human species. The book tells of a future world that has been ravaged by a plague. The Last Man serves as a semi- biographical work and serves as a tribute to Shelley’s deceased friends and explores Shelley’s own feelings of isolation after their loss.
Perkin Warbeck (1830): a historical romance heaving the influence of Walter Scott, addresses the historically contentious theory that the Duke of York (the younger of the two Princes imprisoned in the tower and allegedly put to death by Richard II) was the same person as the rebel leader Perkin Warbeck. The change of direction from ‘Gothicism’ in Frankenstein to historical romance in Perkin Warbeck is notable. This book takes a Yorkist point of view and proceeds from the conceit that Perkin Warbeck died in childhood and the supposed imposter was indeed Richard of Shrewsbury. Henry VII of England is repeatedly described as a “friend” who hates Elizabeth of York, his wife and Richard’s sister, and the future Henry VII, mentioned only twice in the novel, is a vile youth who abuses the dogs. Her preface establishes that records of the Tower of Landon, as well as the histories of Edward Hall, Raphael Holinshed, and Francis Bacon, are printed in the appendix to John Pinkerton’s History of Scotland to establish this as a fact.
Then followed Lodore (1835), under the title The Beautiful Widow, is the penultimate novel of Mary which returns to the theme of primitivism evident in Frankenstein and The Last Man. The novel is about Lord Lodore who marries a young woman. Fraser’s Magazine praised it’s “depth and sweep of thought”.
Her sixth and last novel Falkner (1837), was composed during the year of her father’s death, an event that clearly influenced the novel’s primary plot line, which concerns the father-daughter relation between Falkner and his adopted charge, Elizabeth. There is no indication that the story is not as modern and up to date as it could be in 1838. The last chapter portrays Mary Shelley’s carrier.
Mary Shelley’s literary fountain is confined not only to the field of fiction, but also to a skilled editor and a critic, an influential travel writer, a literary historian, author of several autobiographies, a dabbler in verse as well as in the new genre of short story.
Mary Shelley’s travel book Ramplesin Germany and Italy (1844) is published in two volumes. The text describes two European trips that Mary Shelley took with her son, Percey Florence Shelley, and several of his university friends. Shelley describes her journey as a pilgrimage, which will help cure her depression.
There is some warrant for seeing Mary Shelley as a reflection of her parents, for both mother and father were extra ordinary. Her mother Mary Wollstonecraft published the classic manifesto of sexual equality, A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792). Her father William Godkin established his pre-eminence in radical British political thought with his novel Caleb Williams (1794) often considered as the first English detective novel.
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus is the story of Victor Frankenstein. The name ‘Frankenstein’ is often been used to refer to the monster. The main essence of the story is the discovery of a monstrous creature by Victor Frankenstein. The second most important character in this novel is Robert Walton. Through Watson’s letters to his sister, he gets the ideal picture of this novel.
