Mary Shelley documentary 

Frankenstein is actually the story of a person trying to find themselves. The more Mary Shelly is actually pretty good.

How electrifying that 18 year old Mary penned such a classic spellbinding story with two self absorbed scribes pontificating away, even making a treacherous hike. Bravo!

Brilliant. But so tragic. Well done. Thank you.

Not a serious documentary. The woman, Mary Shelley was fascinating and as the daughter of two remarkable people, the equal of her mother who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Women, which still stands as a watershed in essays by women about women. It is only matched by When and Where I Enter by Paula Giddings. The philosophies of her radical father were likewise revolutionary and he raised her Ruth unprecedented freedom. Their influence cannot be overstated. The artists circles in which Shelley and her peers evolved was and is a stunning example of genius sharpening genuis. The opening sequence is silly and belittles the achievement ofShelley, her peers and her antecedents. Frankenstein stands as a giant among novels about the responsibility of the Creator towards a created thing. God takes his responsibilities seriously as should humanity. See Oppenheimer!

The ambient music and sounds diminish the dialogues, rendering this hard to listen and understand.

The opening of this documentary has stayed with me. Young Mary speaking with the voice of her creature really puts in perspective the whole irony of this novel. I would loved to have met her ❤

thanks for posting, as ever.

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Best hour of my life :D

A remarkable woman and an astounding literary conception. An impossible read today, but in terms of story conceit it was brilliantly original---even, I believe, one of the great books of the 19th Century!

I quite literally revere this woman as a saint

Ironically male chauvinism has often hijacked her work such as "Munsters" where "Herman" A. K. A Frankenstein's monster jokes about silencing female voices while driving, "Lindsay's Technical Books" joked about mother in law for Frankenstein's monster, etc.

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A very aware person and her husband Percy. "A Vindication of Natural Diet" Shelley wrote in A Vindication of Natural Diet: "It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust."[10] Shelley used the imagery of slaughtering a lamb. In Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem (1813) he wrote about the change to a vegetarian diet using the lamb imagery: "And man ... no longer now/ He slays the lamb that looks him in the face,/ And horribly devours his mangled flesh."[11] In the novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), written by Shelley's wife Mary, Frankenstein's monster is portrayed as a vegetarian. The lamb imagery is retained. The Monster explained his vegetarian diet to Victor Frankenstein: "My food is not that of man. I do not destroy the lamb and the kid to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment." So inspiring and glad to vegan. Seems all the greatest minds are veggie or better yet vegan. They see and understand in depth what no veggies/vegan don't see or care to see and connect.

Please, I need to know whether the frog in this documentary is real or a prop.

Would have rather had an indication of her life the way you do with the men. Disappointing

BTX Inc. has published manuals and patents along with how "Science of Science Fiction" by Peter Nichols reported electrochemical effects on animal tissue regeneration so Mary Shelley was on to something before Strickfaden's cold plasma discharge arc machines.

After watching this documentary (which is more about the group in Switzerland and gossip about Mary and a married man than about her life) I have the impression that this group was romanticised too much considering they were not a very nice bunch. For example, Shelley surely was a womaniser with very perturbed tendencies who was not as nice as always portrayed and everyone seems just like silly, crazy youngsters. I don’t argue they wrote amazing stuff that I read several times, but It’s like this documentary has dropped them to the floor for me 🤔 perhaps it’s this documentary, but I don’t think of them in the same way now. Very odd.

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Why is the narrator a man. I'm not enjoying his pompous telling.

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