Parellels between Mary Shelley and Frankenstein
Natalie Maio Romanticism 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
He felt that he was the cause of these two deaths. "The world will never be to me again as it was - there was a life and freshness in it that is lost to me. When Mary Shelley gave birth to a boy, she decided to name it William in honor of her father. Frankenstein could not understand the real reason as to why this happened to William. The death of William broke Frankenstein's heart; he loved the little boy so much. Frankenstein experienced death and overcame death the same way that Mary Shelley did. Dealing with the death of loved ones is probably the hardest thing that a person has to go through and when tragedy occurs time after time, it is not easy to gain back hope. The creature is very sensitive and when it is told how ugly and disgusting it is, anything could happen. I ought to have died on the 7th of June last" (Walling 19). She could not come to any realizations as to why her baby was taken away from her. Mary Shelley was the cause of the death of her mother. "Mary was tormented by the thought that if she had not been so wrapped up in her own affairs, she might have sensed Fanny's despair and somehow helped her overcome it" (Leighton 84). Never would she be able to get close and bond with her mother the way mothers and daughters do. While his mother was taking care of Elizabeth, his "sister," from scarlet fever, she became very sick and simultaneously died. How was he going to live with himself knowing that he caused these deaths? Frankenstein's attitude is very similar to that of Shelley.
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