FrankenKraft is inspired by builders who unite technical expertise with entrepreneurial vision to create something new and unleash it upon the world - hopefully for its betterment.
But FrankenKraft also owes its inspiration to storytellers. Particularly two named Mary.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley published Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus in 1818. A seminal work of Gothic literature and early science fiction, the novel helped shape modern horror and science fiction as we know them.
With its fragmented, layered, and sometimes unreliable narration, the novel anticipates elements of later literary experimentation. Yet it remains thoroughly Romantic in its treatment of nature as a source of beauty and the sublime, standing in tension with the scientific rationalism of the Enlightenment.
Its exploration of creation, identity, responsibility, and the consequences of unchecked scientific ambition remains extraordinarily relevant to contemporary discussions about technological advancement.
Mary Wollstonecraft, Shelley’s mother, was a pioneering feminist writer and advocate for women’s equality in the late eighteenth century. Through her writing, particularly A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and her unconventional life, she helped lay the intellectual groundwork for the women’s rights movements that followed.
Both women challenged prevailing ideas about what was possible.
And that’s something FrankenKraft shares with the builders we work with.
Writers are builders, too.
We work in different materials, but we’re united by the imagination, determination, and craft required to bring a vision to life.