"It's alive!!!" These are just some of the words that come to mind when
you think of classic horror writing. I hear you asking yourself, "Just who wrote
those famous words?" The answer, Mary Shelly. She is one of the masters of the
genre of gothic horror. This isn't just by chance. Mary's life was a total mess
from the beginning to the end. Because of these traumatic events she was to cast
such a darkness on her writing, which has never again been recreated in
First off, ever since Mary Shelly's birth, her life was to be disseminated
with death. "In some ways the death of Mary's mother was one of the lowest
points in her childhood life" (Great Writers of the English Language 3). with her
mother dead she was very lonely, this was because her father didn't give her the
love and security that a child needs. In her book, Frankenstein, there is a direct
correlation with this event in her life. In the story Mary tells of the monster,
herself, and how it kills it's creator's wife. This, in turn, would be it's mother.
Thus creating a situation for the monster with no mother.
Next, when Mary turned the age of sixteen years she meet a man. This
man, who went by the name Shelly, took a liking to Mary. This was even so
dispite the fact that he was married. Because of this her father tried to break up
there relationship. Mary and Shelly did not take a liking to this. In order to
escape the pressure of her father, trying to separate them, they fled to a different
country where they then decided to elope. There destination country ended up
being, after some searching, the rolling hills of France. This was a significant
event, because just as Mary and Shelly were traveling from place to place
through Europe, the Frankenstein monster aimlessly wondered throughout the
woods. Also, another interesting fact that appeared to me in my research was
that while Mary and Shelly were enduring their t...