Mary Shelley's Frankenstein contains an interesting blend of writing styles and genres. Its complexity becomes extremely apparent when one attempts to classify this novel. This is due to the numerous content of which Frankenstein includes. Frankenstein is a novel composed in the eighteenth century and has often been considered by critics as a "phenomenon of popular culture" ("Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley."15). Some aspects of this novel include gothic fiction, science fiction, and fantasies of all kinds. There are also many elements of romance including components of lust. For example, the question exists whether the sexy villain would rather rape or murder the heroine. The gothic elements include Victor's interest is the supernatural and his use of science, particularly chemistry to support this. Shelley also uniquely used double fiction in her novel. This a technique that links two characters together as essentially the same character. Mary Shelley's Frankenstei!
             n is a difficult book to classify but there are some specific genres that appear in it such as Gothic Fiction, Romanticism, and the theory of doubles.
             Mary Shelley's family tells the entire story of who she is. She was born of "...two of the day's most noted freethinkers" ("Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley" 3202). Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, was a feminist and an author. She wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Women. Her father was a political philosopher and also a novelist. With this genetic background set for Shelley she was given precisely the right tools needed for her
             success. Shortly after Shelley's birth her mother died from complications so Shelley was left motherless until her dad remarried. This marriage made her life terrible. Her stepmother mistreated her and Shelley spent much of her time alone and depressed. This young and sad girl was never formally educated...