Mary Shelley had a dark childhood and a abnormal life. This
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).
After the death of his wife and Mary's mother he married
Mary Jane Clairmont. Mary was a very bad stepmother. She did not
give Mary any of the attention or love that she needed from a
mother. It only got worse when Mary Jane gave birth to her first
child. Now that Mary Jane had a child of her own she did not give
any attention to Mary. Mary Jane would go on to have four more
children. "The five children crowded into one house increased
Mary's feeling of inner isolation, the refrain which sounds
throughout her novels and short stories. Another constant
refrain, that of complex familiar relationships, is seen embodied
in the five children, no one of whom could muster two paren...