Mary Shelley documentary

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (30 August 1797 - 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction.[2] She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother was the philosopher and feminist activist Mary Wollstonecraft.
Mary Shelley documentary
2003

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@annstillwell730 3 жыл бұрын

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

@johnjosmith42 2 жыл бұрын

thanks for posting, as ever.

@carolking6355 Жыл бұрын

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

@64jamwill 8 ай бұрын

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 ❤

@samthingshoots Жыл бұрын

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

@annfisher3316 2 ай бұрын

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!

@hardrada2620 9 ай бұрын

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!

@csrsld 3 жыл бұрын

1:39 me when I drink water after chewing 5 gum

@kevk4908 Жыл бұрын

Drink sprite*

@coulsongannaway7797 3 жыл бұрын

Best hour of my life :D

@wesleyhaddox8764 3 жыл бұрын

an actual life altering experience

@a7tweetk 3 жыл бұрын

Wow I’m so excited to watch it now

@robinhoodstfrancis 2 жыл бұрын

Agree so heartily and to such a great degree I want to shout with joy. I gather a lot has to do with the different layers of the pioneering issues of modernization Shelley was in the middle of, and the way art and modern psychological insight have spiritual-religious roots and branches. The tragedy of the adventurous PB Shelley´s circles is noteworthy. The context of the level of scientific discovery in Galvani´s observation of electrical muscular working, and Mary Shelley´s tender intelligence as a British woman, or the like. I´ve been interested in the Quaker-Friend experience, that included Tom Paine, and then Walt Whitman later, but also at this time Lucretia Mott and her husband were coming up, and Elias Hicks in the US. The window and doorway to interfaith spiritual seeking was only creaking open between William Jones, F Bopp in Germany, and Schopenhauer in Germany too, I believe. Emerson in the US was only beginning to question his ties to Unitarianism.

@jeanettesdaughter 10 ай бұрын

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!

@64jamwill 8 ай бұрын

I find that most modern women tend to overlook Shelley as well as several other female authors. It’s tragic that they were ahead of their times but seldom referenced by today’s Post Modern feminist.

@user-jc2we4sn1i 10 ай бұрын

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.

@CaptainTrips560 Жыл бұрын

I quite literally revere this woman as a saint

@susansays6219 10 ай бұрын

GIVE Me A BREAK!!!! A Saint??? She had an AFFAIR With A MARRIED MAN!!! This man’s wife Was PREGNANT with His Child, she MISCARRIED!!! Mary Shelly was very selfish!!! She was A GODLESS WOMAN!!! A HUMANIST!!! ALSO, His wife Also committed SUICIDE!!!! YEAH, MARY SHELLY A SAINT???😂😂 A DAM 👿 Just SHAMEFUL!!!🤬👿👎👎🤬

@mariopinot9884 3 жыл бұрын

Nice

@user-jc2we4sn1i 10 ай бұрын

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.

@caroledrury1411 2 жыл бұрын

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

@fkclementi Жыл бұрын

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

@connor5887 2 жыл бұрын

Hi. May I have your permission to use a part of this video for my documentary project. Part of my university. Many Thanks

@AuthorDocumentaries 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, yes, it should be no problem. This particular production company is allowing others to use it for educational purposes.

@RP-mm9ie 3 жыл бұрын

psychobabble

@aidafaramin8687 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@CaptainTrips560 Жыл бұрын

They were human

@darrinhoffman4061 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and sentiments about this documentary. I agree with them 100 percent.

@amdesigns5865 Жыл бұрын

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.