FRANKENSTEIN AS GOTHIC SCIENCE FICTION ......... GROUP WORK ..........(TASK)

FRANKENSTEIN AS GOTHIC SCIENCE FICTION ......... GROUP WORK ..........(TASK)

Romantic Literature from NIYATI PATHAK





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NIYATI PATHAK 
KAVITABA GOHIL
JAGRUTI VASANI 



introduction..........
"I busied myself to think of a story, . . . One which would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature and awaken thrilling horror". 

                                                                                            —Mary Shelley

 Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a grotesque but sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. 

Frankensteinin is infused with elements of the Gothic novel  and the Romantic movement.

  Definition of Gothic fiction

         Gothic fiction is a type of novel or romance popular in the late 18th and early 19th c. The word ‘gothic’ had come to mean ‘wild’, ‘barbarous’ and ‘crude’. The plots hinged on suspense and mystery, involving the fantastic and the supernatural.

 
Science Fiction :-

       This is where it gets interesting: Frankenstein is often considered the first work of science fiction. What's key is that the science isn't just window-dressing: the whole point of the novel is to explore heavy questions about What It All Means, where "It" can be loosely translated as "science, fate, free will, nature, and humanity."

 Gothic science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction  that, as the name suggests, also involves gothic conventions. The connection between Gothic and Science Fiction is far from being a new discovery. There is however something to be said about returning to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to fully appreciate the complexity of this genesis, this beginning of a genre loosely termed as Gothic Science Fiction. As an established Gothic text Frankenstein is also considered by many as the beginning Science Fiction. Mary Shelley, in Frankenstein redefines and re-establishes, conflates and mutates aspects and expectations of Romanticism as well as the Gothic to create her “hideous progeny”, in much the same way as Victor does in the creation of his monster; through piecing together fragmented and often strangely opposing elements, from the enlightened knowledge of his science and pieces of dead flesh from the graveyard.




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