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"It is work noting here that every time ´nature´is invoked in the novel, as moral presence presiding over human life, it appears to produce only the monstrous."

"Godlike Science and Unhallowed Arts: Language and Monstrosity in Frankenstein"

Natural surroundings have been shown to have therapeutic powers...The immortal beauty of the mountains and lakes is contrasted with the ephemeral nature of human existence and grief."

"Nature in Mary Shelley´s "Frankenstein"."

"The message is loud and clear; the untold secrets of Nature are best enjoyed when allowed to remain a secret. Any attempt to transgress or trespass the human limitation can be as disastrous as in the case of a young genius like Frankenstein."

"Nature in Mary Shelley´s "Frankenstein"." Academic Help. N.p., 18 Mar 2009. Web. 18 Mar 2014. <http://studentacademichelp.blogspot.com/2009/03/nature-in-mary-shelley.html>.

"The bad weather confined them to the house and they spend much of their time talking about galvanism and reading ghost stories which prompted her to write the first sketch of what was to become her most famous novel Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus."

"The European Graduate School." Mary Shelley-Biography. European Graduate School. Web. 18 Mar 2014. <http://www.egs.edu/library/mary-shelley/biography/>.

"Frankenstein journeys to seek solace in the mountains above Chamonix. He penetrates into the´glorious presence-chamber of imperial nature´ ... "

Brooks, Peter. "Godlike Science and Unhallowed Arts: Language and Monstrosity in Frankenstein." New Literary History. 9.3 (1978): 591-605. Print. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/468457>.

"The central idea came to Shelly in a dream where she saw a student putting together parts of a man's body and working through a big engine to animate it."

Mary Shelley-Biography.


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