^TagMary Shelley

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News
Date
July 5, 2023

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Arts & Culture

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Emma Stone, Frankenstein, hollywood, Mark Ruffalo, Mary Shelley, Movies and TV, Poor Things, Science fiction, transhumanism, Willem Dafoe}

The Modern-Day “Frankenstein” Is Coming

_{"Poor Things," starring Emma Stone, is about a girl brought back to life. Ring a bell?} _{News

July 5, 2023

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Arts & Culture}

The movie Poor Things, starring Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, and Mark Ruffalo, is the story of an “unorthodox” scientist who brings a girl, Bella Baxter (Stone), back to life. Baxter must learn how to navigate the world given her unwieldy demeanor and the uncoordinated connection between her brain and body. It looks to be a pretty close re-interpretation of Mary Shelley’s classic science fiction novel Frankenstein. Whether it will get even close to investigating Shelley’s key questions and insights remains to be seen, of course. Interestingly, the scientist (Dafoe) has a deformed face that looks like it was stitched together piece by piece, similar to popular renderings of Frankenstein’s monster. You can watch the trailer here:

Aerial view of Frankenstein Castle in southern Hesse, Germany

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Peter Biles
Date
January 7, 2023

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Arts & Culture, Transhumanism

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Andrew Klavan, Arts & Culture, Daily Wire, Featured, Frankenstein, Literature, Machines, Mary Shelley, Materialism, Romanticism, science, Science fiction, transhumanism, Wordsworth}

The Prophecies of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

_{Andrew Klavan explores the world of the Romantics in new book and finds special insight in Shelley’s classic horror story} _{Peter Biles

January 7, 2023

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Arts & Culture, Transhumanism}

Andrew Klavan, acclaimed novelist and host of the Andrew Klavan Show at the Daily Wire, wrote a book about his profound encounters with the Romantics of the 19th century, called The Truth and Beauty: How the Lives and Works of England’s Greatest Poets Point the Way to a Deeper Understanding of the Words of Jesus. The Romantics include literary figures like Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and John Keats. While it’s common to highlight the Romantics’ veneration of nature, they were also living in the throes of the Enlightenment, in which atheistic materialism was becoming a minority alternative to theism. Klavan writes, “The wonderful success of science at explaining the material world threatens to create in scientists a bias towards Read More ›

A Frankenstein's Monster Lurks in the Dead of Night

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News
Date
May 11, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

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Andrew Klavan, Frankenstein (as first science fiction), Karen Swallow Prior, Mary Shelley, Science fiction (and women), Truth and Beauty (book)}

Of Woman and Machine: Are Women and Technology at Odds?

_{A DailyWire host turns to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein for some insights} _{News

May 11, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

That’s what author and DailyWire host Andrew Klavan argues in his book The Truth and Beauty (2022). In perhaps the best chapter in a book analyzing the Romantic poets, Klavan turns to Mary Shelley (1797–1851), the teenage author of Frankenstein. Shelley was not a Romantic poet, Klavan admits, but she was married to a Romantic poet (Percy Shelley, ) and was greatly influenced by the Romantics of her era. The common conclusion is that Frankenstein is about man’s attempt to usurp God. Even Shelley herself stated that about her book. “But I don’t think this is what the novel is about at all,” Klavan posits. To me, the greatness of the story, the horror of the story, and the threat Read More ›