Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly has written many books in her life. She has received much criticism about one of her books inperticular, Frankenstien. Frankenstein was one of her most famous novels. Shelly had written Frankenstein in order to enter a contest but what few people realized was that Frankenstein was one of many nightmares that Shelly had during her rough childhood. Shelly has become one of the most renowned Gothic authors because of her use of graphic descriptions and settings and her use of many significant themes.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly was born in London on August 30, 1797. Shelley was the daughter of a philosopher named William Godwin. Shelly's mother died while giving birth to her and her father was remarried in 1801(Drabble 121). Shelley disliked her father's new wife so, as a result, he sent her to go live in Dundee with the Baxter's, foster parents, where she stayed until 1814. Shelley took many visits back to London to visit her father (Bloom 3014).

On May 5, 1814, Mary met Percy Bysshe Shelley on one of her visits to London. Percy

Shelley left his wife, Harriet, and went to France with Mary (Bloom 3014). Shelley returned to London to give birth to a daughter only to lose the child two weeks later. Percy Shelley proposed to Mary Godwin and they were married in 1816. Shelley became pregnant again and again lost the child at birth. Out of four children, only one survived, Percy (Drabble 121).

Well after her death, Shelley was still remembered. In 1876 a poem was published titled "A poem on Shelley's Death". Then, in 1891, almost seventy years after Shelley passed away, another book was published. This book entitled "Tales and Stories by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley", was a collection of short stories written by Shelley but never published (Goldberg 3205).

Victor Frankenstein was born in Geneva. Victor showed an early promise in the natural sciences. When he grew older, his father sent him to the University of Ingolstadt. Victor learned all that the university could teach him in the natural science field. One day while studying, Victor stumbled across the secret of creating life and once he had the knowledge he couldn't rest until he could create a living being (Magill 2154).

Many people consider The Last Man to be Shelley's most famous work. The central vision of this novel is the spiral of human history in the central vision. The Last Man is set in the distant future, at the time, of the twenty-first century. This novel begins with a peaceful and flourishing society but tragically ends with total death throughout the world by the plague. Only one man survives this decimation, Lionel Verney (Bloom 3018).

Shelley used symbolism to relate some characters in her novel to real life people. The monster is a symbolism of Adam and Satan. The monster realizes that he is either Adam, destined for eternal grace, or Satan, doomed to eternal darkness (Goldberg 3205). The monster likes to compare himself with Adam before the creation of Eve, but Satan is an even "Eitter emblem" of his condition (Kiely 3213). The monster encounters books envying Satan because he is drawn to the fact that Satan had his companions (Kiely 3213). All of this symbolism backtracks or in some way leads to the story of creation in the bible (Magill 2422).

Shelley, along with the use of symbolism, also incorporates many themes in her novel. A major theme of this novel is the theme of estrangement. This theme is in direct relation with Shelley's own loneliness

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