Victor Frankenstein's life was destroyed due to an obsession with the power to create life that no one had ever felt before. The monster he created could be seen as the image of all the errors of science. We can use Frankenstein to compare life in modern society and show that there is danger in the distant relationship that science creates between the scientist and his work. This is why I think Frankenstein has been read for so long. When Mary Shelley started writing Frankenstein, people started to be more liberal about passion, rule breaking and nature because for so long people were under strict religious rules to follow and while in the early Romantic period people they were not subject to so many restrictions. This ties into today because everyday people are starting to try new things, break the rules and not care as much. Romanticism is also about nationalism when people are proud to support their country and today all the British men fighting in the war, people are proud to be British. In the second chapter Mary Shelley reveals Victor as an ambitious character...