An Attempt to Become God Marjorie McAtee claims that the connection between romance and nature has strengthened with the idealism of popular cultures and customs. Many Romantic artists, writers, and philosophers believed in the natural world as a source of strong emotions and philosophies. The artists and philosophers of the Romantic period also accentuated the magnificence and beauty of nature and the power of the natural world (McAtee, Marjorie, and W. Everett. WiseGeek. Conjecture, 03 March 2014. Web. 05 April 2014.) . Mary Shelly and many other writers such as Williamworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were Romantic writers who were apprehensive towards nature, human feelings, compassionate towards humanity and rebellious towards society. Romanticism, which originated in the 18th century, is something that emphasized motivation and imagination (adjective clause). In Frankenstein, Shelley warns that the initiation of science and natural rational research is not only ineffective, but also dangerous. In an attempt to uncover the mysteries of life, Frankenstein presumes to ...