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             common, Charles and Jane Excepted" (Harold78)
             The death of her mother was probably the biggest factor that
             affected the writing of Frankenstein. "One theme of Frankenstein
             is mothering and the absence of mothers: Mary Shelley's own
             mother was heavily pregnant with her when her parents married :
             her mother died as a result of her birth." (Gothic 188). This is
             where Mary conceived the idea of the " "Frankenstein Impulse"-
             The desire to alter human nature even to the point of creating
             life itself."(Sunstein 233) A quote that best represents the
             relationship between her mother and the creation of the monster
             dreams seeing pictures of his dead mother ten he wakes up and
             sees the dead monster."(Frankenstien43) This quote describes the
             relationship between Mary Shelly's mother and the creation,
             because Mary had been born into the world motherless, like the
             creature and throughout her life she had only had a father to
             guide her, like the monster does. The creature is a symbol for
             Mary being born into the world as a motherless child. "Her
             reserved manner hid deep feelings baffled by her mother's death
             and her father's distance- two kinds of coldness, one might say,
             both of them which are embodied in the monster's dead and also
             Mary's Mother also a had a very big in
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