PARALLELS BETWEEN MARY SHELLEY and FRANKENSTEIN

It is clearly evident that there are many parallels between the novel Frankenstein and the life of its author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Throughout her life, Shelley experienced many deaths of loved ones. These tragedies led her to create a monster story that expressed her psychological state of mind. From researching biographical texts of Shelley, I learned that the deaths of loved ones that Mary Shelley experienced had a significant influence on the plot of Frankenstein.

Mary Shelley was born into a family that contained notable writers, William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. These two writers influenced Mary Shelley's decision to become a writer. One night as Shelley was going to sleep, she began thinking of a horror story. Before she realized it, pages and pages of words were flowing and soon enough, Frankenstein was created. Without realizing it, Shelley was incorporating events that were taking place in her life to the story that she was writing.

Mary Wollstonecraft became very sick when Shelley was born. She had suffered due to complications during childbirth. Everything happene

understand the real reason as to why this happened to William. Was he the cause? No matter what the implications were, Frankenstein knew that Justine, his cousin, could not kill her own family member. Questions were left unanswered and things were always a mystery to Frankenstein.

Victor Frankenstein created a monster through his scientific genius. The creation was a representation of the life that Victor desired to live until it started overpowering Frankenstein's life and destroying it. The creature is very sensitive and when it is told how ugly and disgusting it is, anything could happen. One day, Frankenstein's little brother William saw the monster and was scared. William told the monster how ugly he was too. Without any warning, the creature approached William and killed him. At first, Frankenstein had no idea who had done this to William; but he knew that his cousin Justine was falsely accused . The death of William broke Frankenstein's heart; he loved the little boy so much. William was taken away from Frankenstein the way his mother was and again, he had no control over it.

d all at once and two weeks after she gave birth, Mary Wollstonecraft died. Mary Shelley was the cause of the death of her mother. Never would she be able to get close and bond with her mother the way mothers and daughters

When the monster began controlling Frankenstein's life and making demands, Frankenstein knew something was wrong. Frankenstein would not create a mate for the monster so it promised to put revenge on him. Sure enough, on the night of Frankenstein's wedding to Elizabeth, the monster raped her and killed her, leaving Frankenstein all alone with no one to love. Now he realized that the monster killed little William. This was so overwhelming for Frankenstein. He felt that he was the cause of these two deaths. If he had never created this monster, his brother William and his future wife would be alive and well. Frankenstein began to breakdown and was self-destructing. How was he going to live with himself knowing that he caused these deaths?

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