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The critical introspectioninto Western modernity began to be discussed with a full-scale by postmodernistsand post-colonialists only in the late twentieth-century. MaryShelley seems to be a very modern writer because, in Frankenstein, sheattempted critical introspection as early as 1818. In Frankenstein, set in Europein 1790s, Shelley explores the contradictory aspects of modern enlightenmentwhich, despite its emphasis on universal brotherhood and cosmopolitanism,despises the racial other as a savage and an inferior being who cannot sharein the light of reason or in the enlightenment. Shelly's critical attitude towardWestern modernity is portrayed by the duality of three European men, EnglishRobert Walton, Genevese Victor Frankenstein, and French Felix De Lacey,who believe in the ideal of universal brotherhood and cosmopolitanism in theorybut practise racial prejudice in reality. Through the Victor's creature, acosmopolitan, Shelley proposes an alternative of building a new cosmopolitancommunity to realize the ideal of brotherhood and cosmopolitanism bysubverting existing familial, national, and religious community.
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Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, modernity, racism, brotherhood, cosmo- politanism, sympathy, community
