Frankenstein as a Romantic Heroe:

Lyrical Ballads wrote by Wordsworth and Coleridge is an early example of Romantic literature. According to Wordsworth,: “The poet considers man and nature as essentially adapted to each other, and the mind of man as naturally a mirror of the fairest and most interesting properties of nature” (Anderson 606).

As them Shelley’s father, William Godwin ,was one of the leading political philosophers of the first Romantic generation. Then obviously William´s daughter had the same perspective.

For most people the idea of a romantic was not clear at the 1818, so in this scenary fiction novels of supernatural terror as Frankenstein showed themselves the idea of a romantic or the idea of romanticism. In Frankenstein story, the mad scientist Victor Frankenstein and his creation provoke readers with the fear of the unknown and the powerful romantic hero because of its intricate settings of natutre and the isolation in which Frankenstein stays.
Wordsworth, Coleridge among others helped to create this idea of the Romantic Hero. “Romantics saw and felt things brilliantly afresh. They virtually invented certain landscapes . . . had a new intuition for the primal power of the wild landscape, the spiritual correspondence between Man and Nature . . .” (Drabble 853).

A romantic hero is a hero who is aware of the self assertion and the value of individual experience

Also they are always in loneliness because of their opposites ways of thinking, and are in many cases look for landscapes in order not to feel the disdain of the rest.

Romantic hero also support his idea in the fact of changing and thinking about the connection between the human mind and the reality within this faith of change were originated the ideas of the Romantics

The mysterious forces of nature were another area where the thoughts of the Romantics originated and as Robert Anderson .”they prized experiences of the beauty and majesty of nature. . . but they had a strong sense of its mysterious forces, partly because these forces hinted at the cause of change”

In Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein acknowledges these forces when he says: It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things, or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquires were directed to the metaphysical, or, in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world. (Shelley 28)

So according to this, we can say that, Frankenstein can be considered one of most important characters which showed to a group of people in a determined time how and which are the thougths of a romantic hero. Even now when there are many examples of them, we can recurr to this historical prometeus and look at him in order to clarify our concept of what a romantic hero is.