By Paul K. Alkon
Paul Alkon analyzes numerous key works that mark the main major stages within the early evolution of technology fiction, together with Frankenstein, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the ocean, A Connecticut Yankee in King arthur's Court and The Time Machine. He locations the paintings in context and discusses the style and its relation to different kinds of literature.
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Should it be ours? Again the answer matters less-though it does matter-than the estranged perspective here, which makes it hard to give the usual soothing replies to such a query. Other issues are raised from more oblique perspectives implied by Frankenstein's symbolism. Shelley encourages remarkably varied but not mutually 35 SCIENCE FICTION BEFORE 1900 exclusive interpretations of her novel. Its initial reference to Prometheus points ambiguously toward one set of meanings. Another set is evoked by insistent allusions to Paradise Lost, also starting on Frankenstein's title page, which challenge readers to decipher the even more ambiguous implications of inexact parallels between the monster and Adam as well as Satan, and between Victor Frankenstein and God.
After describing his initial sensations upon first coming into existence and living in a preverbal state-a period that may seem to readers like an evocation of their own or any person's infancy described with adult sensibility-the monster tells of learning first to speak and then to read while hiding out where he secretly observes the De Lacey family in their cottage. By elaborating this part of his account far beyond the plot requirement that the monster somehow acquire speech, Shelley invites readers to consider the humanizing role of language, which is usually as much taken for granted as the air we breathe.
For those who define science fiction mainly in terms of how far scientific concepts explicitly enter its subject matter, Gulliver's voyages to Lilliput (the land of little people) and to Brobdingnag (the land of giants) are adventure-fantasy no matter how much they may have been inspired by invention of the microscope and telescope. Swift's consistently presented details of size relationships in the first two voyages merely foreshadow the techniques of science fiction in portraying alien environments with verisimilitude.
