Frankenstein
             The pursuit of knowledge is what drives mankind to achieve new and monumental achievements. We thirst for it as though the world that we live in is never enough to keep our imaginations churning, we know there is something more out there, and will stop at no lengths to find it. This thirst is what lies at the heart of the Frankenstein, it's what drives Victor Frankenstein to dangerous and disturbing levels of discovery and what lands Robert Walton trapped between sheets of ice on the open sea.
             Born on August 30, 1797 as an only child of Mary Wollstonecraft, the famous feminist, and William Godwin, a philosopher and novelist. She was also the wife of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary was lucky enough to have lived through the Romantic era into the Victorian. Mary was born during the eighth year of the French Revolution. Since she was a child, Mary was treated as a unique individual with remarkable parents. High expectations were placed on her and she was treated as if she were born beneath a lucky star. Her father was convinced that babies are born with a potential waiting to be developed. From an early age she was read famous philosophers, writers, and poets. Almost every day she would go for a walk with her father to the St. Pancras churchyard where her mother was buried. Her father taught Mary to read and spell her name by having her trace her mother's inscription on the stone. [1]
             At the age of sixteen Mary ran away to live with the twenty-one year old Percy Shelley, who was at the time an unhappily married heir a to very wealthy family. Although she was cast out of society, even by her father, because of her leaving home, Mary was still inspired by Shelley to produce her most memorable novel, Frankenstein (publish in 1818). She created Frankenstein during a house party while staying at Lake Geneva in Switzerland with Lord Byron and Shelley. She was only nineteen at the t
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