Frankenstein: Mary Shelley

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FrankensteinMary Shelleys background

• Male Argoti,
• Rafa Mora,
• Gustavo Rodas,
• Ma. Gracia Yepes

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Biography

• Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born in 1797 in
  London.
• Her mother died 10 days after giving birth to her
• She is considered to be one of the first
  feminists stating that woman should not lower
  themselves to please their husbands or lovers
• Her father William Godwin was a writer and
  political journalist who had a revolutionary
  attitude towards social institutions.

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Young Adulthood

• She met her future husband Percy Bysshe Shelley
  (who was a married man) when she was 16
• After her father forbade her to see him, they
  both ran away to France in 1814
• In 1815, Mary Shelley gave birth to her daughter
  Clara who died a few weeks later, year later she
  gave birth to her first son, William
• Finally in December 30, 1816 Percy and Shelley
  married.
• They both wrote about their experiences around
  Europe in History of Six Weeks Tour

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• Her husband expressed throughout his poems the
  longing for an open marriage, this was around the
  time Shelley had started writing Frankenstein
• She had 2 more children in which one died and her
  firstborn child died.
• In1822 she suffered a miscarriage which
  threatened her life, the same year her husband
  was killed in a boating accident in Italy

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The Final Years

• Shelley took it upon her responsibility to
  compile the poetry and writing of her late
  husband
• She returned to England with her son Percy where
  she wrote Valperga and her second most popular
  novel The Last Man
• In 1851 she died at home at the age of 51

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Mary Shelley and Frankenstein

• There are many explanations as to why Mary
  Shelley wrote or came up with the idea of
  Frankenstein
• While staying with half sister Claire, husband
  Percy at Lord Byrons the challenge among the
  guests was to come up with the scariest story, it
  is thought that Dr. Frankensteins monster
  presented itself in a dream she had.
• connection between Shelleys personal life and
  Frankenstein
• Mary Shelley began to write the novel while she
  was on her 3rd pregnancy, it is rumored that the
  fear of her child dying or born deformed
  transmitted itself to the creature in
  Frankenstein.

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Other Works

• Valperga (1823)The last man (1826)Ladore
  (1835)Faulkner (1837)

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Bibliography

• Merriam Webster incorporate, "Merriam Websters
  Encyclopedia", Merriam Webster publisher,
  Massachusets, 1995 pg 1004
• Mary Shelley Biography . (n.d.). Retrieved
  October 27, 2010, from USEM http//people.brandei
  s.edu/teuber/shelleybio.html
• Merriman, C. (2006). Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  . Retrieved October 27, 2010, from The Literature
  Network http//www.online-literature.com/shelley_
  mary/
• Why did Mary Shelley write Frankenstein. (n.d.).
  Retrieved October 27, 2010, from Wiki Answers
  http//wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_did_Mary_Shelley_wri
  te_Frankenstein