Frankenstein

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re acceptable as research progresses. These two separate backgrounds significantly contribute to the development of characters.
Social and historical circumstances of Mary Shelley’s audience would have been similar to the characters in the novel, as were there reactions. They would have felt an immediate repulsion created by the outward appearance of Frankenstein’s creature. It required much more of an authorial effort on Mary Shelley’s behalf to create feelings of sympathy and empathy in the audience of her times minds. It required much effort to also sustain any sympathy, in all likelyness a considerable percentile of the audience would have sympathised more with Victor then or equally to his creation. Today’s audience would feel initially more intrigued then anything on the monsters introduction. The monster's rejection would have created an automatic sympathy for the monster and the emotional events of the creature longing for acceptance and companionship would have only justified the audience’s feelings of sympathy, not created them.
The feelings caused by the Frankenstein’s creature would have given the two separate audiences different reasoning for their sympathy towards Frankenstein. The audience of ...