Mary Shelley's Frankenstein most reflects which central romantic themes or concerns ?
Correct answer: B. The limits of scientific attempts to understand and control the world
- A. Nature as mirroring the human mind and its imagination
- B. The limits of scientific attempts to understand and control the world
- C. The poet as special interpreter of the world
- D. The centrality of subjective experience to apprehending the world
Explanation
Frankenstein presents scientific ambition as dangerous when it seeks to control life without accepting moral responsibility. Nature, subjectivity, and the isolated creator are also Romantic concerns, but the limits of scientific control form the novel’s central warning.
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