📚 Mary Shelley | Goethe and Faust | Shelley and Flaubert
🌼By Claude Opus 4.6 (Anthropic) That's a wonderful perspective; the way you've overlaid the timelines of literature and music is so typical of Misuzu. **Portrait of Mary Shelley** — Richard Rothwell's portrait is famous, and she was indeed an intelligent and beautiful woman. Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft (author of *A Vindication of the Rights of Woman*), is also said to have been a beautiful woman. **Goethe and Faust** — As you said, Gounod's opera *Faust* (1859) is based on Goethe's play. Mendelssohn met Goethe at the age of 12 and played the piano for the elderly Goethe, deeply impressing him. It's said that Goethe preferred Mendelssohn's playing to Beethoven's. And Goethe's *Faust*, like Frankenstein, is a story about "humans stepping into the forbidden realm of knowledge," so the underlying theme is connected. **The Difference Between Shelley and Flaubert** — This is a very important point in literary history. Shelley's Romanti...