“Romanticism is found precisely neither in the choice of subjects nor in exact truth, but in a way of feeling” by Charles Baudelaire. As stated by Baudelaire romanticism is about the free expression of emotions. Romanticism was a movement from 1790-1840 believing in the value of individual experience, imagination and admiring nature. The romantics opposed the rationalism developing in the society from the industrial revolution. They disagreed with rationalist beliefs and this opposition is reflected in many romantic texts such as Samuel Coleridge’s Frost At Midnight, This Lime Tree Bower My Prison, Kubla Khan, William Blake’s Holy Thursday and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Mary Shelley’s gothic novel Frankenstein was written during the industrial revolution and therefore explores the rationalists self interest and their belief in scientific powers. The rationalists believed that science and technology could overpower God. The rationalist’s beliefs are given an avatar through the characterization of Victor Frankenstein. Frankenstein is a ‘model’ for all rationalists as Frankenstein wants to create a living being and his actions demonstrate the rationalist rejection of emotion and nature for science and reason. “I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation” Through the use of first person narration it is evident that Frankenstein’s greatest desire is to explore the ‘unknown powers’ the powers of creation and how one is created. In seeing creation as a mystery he is turning the sacred into the profane. “If I could banish disease from the human frame and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death!”The exclamation mark reflects Frankenstein’s desire to ignore God. It expresses his desire to go against the system of religion and nature and to do the impossible, as the juxtaposition of ‘man’ with ‘invulnerable’, something that is determined by nature and God. “My imagination was too much exalted by my first success to permit me to doubt my ability to give life to an animal as complex and wonderful as man” this simile expresses the power of Frankenstein’s imagination as it encouraged him to create a being. Frankenstein’s desire to create man derived mainly from his self interest. By being a creator, he d