had a large influence on how she wrote Frankenstein. In

Frankenstein, her personal life played a significant roll on the

gothic appeal of the book. The people that influenced her book

the most was her father, William Godwin, her Mother, Mary

Wollstonecraft Godwin, Her Husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley and her

Mary Shelley's father William Godwin was a philosopher and a

political theorist. Her father was a great writer but he was not

there when Mary needed him and he didn't give Mary the attention

that she needed. He was not a bad father he was just not there to

raise her and watched after her, he still managed to earn her

love though. This would help to explain why Mary was a great

author, but wrote about dark and dominated things in

Frankenstein. "Despite her resentment of her father's bleak

rationality, she acknowledged her deep intellectual debts to his

novels by dedicating Frankenstein to him"(Davenport 191). Her

father also wrote dark stories of misery. "Mary saw as did her

father, the duality in human nature which is capable of brining

misery and ruin to the most gifted of beings." (Bloom78).

staying in Switzerland spark the idea for Mary but it also

guide her, like the monster does. The creature is a symbol for

quote, when victor first brings the Monster to life represents

is mothering and the absence of mothers: Mary Shelley's own

that she could express herself was through writing Frankenstein.

that night. Swift as light and as cheering was the idea that

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