A Shadow of Darkness: The Early Life of Mary Shelly
"It's alive!!!" These are just some of the words that come to mind whenyou think of classic horror writing. I hear you asking yourself, "Just who wrotethose famous words?" The answer, Mary Shelly. She is one of the masters of thegenre of gothic horror. This isn't just by chance. Mary's life was a total messfrom the beginning to the end. Because of these traumatic events she was to castsuch 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 disseminatedwith death. "In some ways the death of Mary's mother was one of the lowestpoints in her childhood life" (Great Writers of the English Language 3). with hermother dead she was very lonely, this was because her father didn't give her thelove and security that a child needs. In her book, Frankenstein, there is a directcorrelation 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. Thisman, who went by the name Shelly, took a liking to Mary. This was even so
And, I believe that's what you would callhostility towards a member of your family. It is none more obvious then in her book Frankenstein. These events are what led me tobelieve that in this instance Shelly was the "monster". And, if Shelly was caught, no,they wouldn't have killed him, but they would have put him in debtors prison,which pretty much ment life in prison, (seeing how you were in prison there wasno way to pay back your debt) which might as well have been death for Shelly. Mary's next child was also born healthy as a horse, but afew weeks after it's birth, the child died. This was a significantevent, because just as Mary and Shelly were traveling from place to placethrough Europe, the Frankenstein monster aimlessly wondered throughout thewoods. This timearound Mary had a miscarriage. The reason for death was stated as apost nasal depression. dispite the fact that he was married. I also believe that Mary realized this too. Though it was not directly stated that it was done on purpose, I believe that thisdeed was part of a plan, yet again, to destroy the relationship between Mary andShelly. And some people might actually mistake this deed fornone other than a nice gesture, but those people would be wrong. In order toescape the pressure of her father, trying to separate them, they fled to a differentcountry where they then decided to elope. Seeing how the Frankenstein monster trudgedaround killing the animals.
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