but picked up much of her intellect from the atmosphere around her father. Shelley married at the age of seventeen to Percy Shelley.
             The two of them lived in financial difficulty and tragedy. Three of their children died in infancy and Percy was becoming interested in another woman. All of these elements caused Mary to fall into a deep depression. In 1822, Percy Shelley drowned while sailing so Mary was left alone with her child. To support herself and her child she began writing. With a background such as Mary Shelley's it made her writing style apparent. It is what forces her to write in the Gothic and Romantic Traditions.
             Gothic Fiction was a distinct kind of writing in the mid eighteenth century. It most often has a central character, usually a virginal young woman, who finds herself set or trapped in a web of disaster and misfortune. This central character is most commonly being pursued throughout the novel. Also a Gothic Fiction novel usually contains a very dark male figure who always has something terrible in mind for the central character. This character also finds themselves in environments such as caverns, castles, ruins, or abbeys. Another aspect of a gothic fiction novel is the use of science to support fictional horror and to add credibility to the supernatural.
             Shelley's Frankenstein has gothic narratives in fiction, science, and social science combined to produce evil that is planted in the interior of the reader's mind (Nardo 63). Frankenstein does not entirely fit into the genre of gothic
             literature, but many links can be drawn to it. It is a novel o
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