Lisa CARTON-Edgar Newman, Frankestein : The Enlightenment and the revolution as compared to a monster. The authors see in Mary Shelley's novel the mortal confrontation of two characters which symbolise two value systems. Frankestein, scientific, rational shared with the Enlightenment the belief that reason should control the passions. The monster that he created, is on the contrary looking for love. The novel of Mary Shelley is therefore a parable of the revolutionary age and the romantic period : the former being the continuation of the rationalism of the Enlightenment which produced the Terror but at the same time emancipated the people, who are naturaly good, and leads onto romanticism and the primacy of emotions. The authors show that ...