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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).

. . .

Reading the book is almost like reading about the life of Mary

Shelley. She was so desperate for love that she

followed him all around Europe. She did not

give Mary any of the attention or love that she needed from a

mother.

Through characterization Mary develops the creature into a symbol

of herself. Both of their father’s did not give them the

attention and the love they needed, they acted like they never

created either one of them. It was almost unheard for a women to write a

book especially one that is as morbid as Frankenstein. Another constant

refrain, that of complex familiar relationships, is seen embodied

in the five children, no one of whom could muster two parents in

common, Charles and Jane Excepted” (Harold78)

The death of her mother was probably the biggest factor that

affected the writing of Frankenstein. ”(Davenport) This is why

we pity it. They were

staying at the house of lord Byron , in Switzerland.

The death of Mary’s Children and her little brother help to

explain why Frankenstein had so much death in it. “I possessed no money, no

friends, no kind of property….

“The idea so possessed my mind, that a thrill of fear ran

through me , and I wished to exchange the ghastly image of my

fancy for the realities around. ”( Bloom) This was perhaps a main contributor

the dark and gothic appeal of the book.

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