Frankestein by Mary Shelley

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During the romanticism era several novels where published but Mary Shelley published her most famous novel Frankenstein. Her novel was very mysterious due to the fact that it related a lot with her personal life and her struggles with in that time she was writing Frankenstein. Before she began to write her story she was inspired by Lord Byron. Which one night her and a several group of friends who got together one night decided to tell scary stories and see who had the most scary story and would win. That night after everyone was asleep Shelley had a very long nightmare about a monster that was created as she woke up the next morning she decided to write that nightmare as a story.
Shelley was born in London England on august 30 1797 at the age of 19 she got married to another poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley had a passion for writing she used to write stories to her dad every night before she fell asleep. Shelley had a very hard childhood after her mother’s death. Not long after her mother died her father got remarried she didn’t get along with her step mother or her stepsister. She was encouraged by her father who was a social political liberal views and theories. Soon she became annoyed and frustrated with her stepmothers mistreatness. When she got married she got pregnant from her husband her father refused to help her and not to mention her stepsister and her stepmother. Her husband, Percy seem like he did not want to be with Shelley. Shelley’s life consisted of many deaths ones who where her sons deaths. After focusing on something that took her mind off of her depression so she focus on her currently writing novel Frankenstein.
Frankenstein is consisted of different literary elements the novel starts off by the creation o...

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...y victor and the monster come to life.

Another theme was individual over society, it showed when victor first created the monster, he thought of himself and his own individual curiosity and greed before considering what the monster could do to society. Initially it seemed like a selfish and self empowering plan, that in the end back fired. The structure of this theme made it somewhat difficult to understand some of he situations. Some of the situations end with an epiphany.

This Novel portrays Man vs. Himself because Victor created the monster because of his on selfish reasons and curiosities. I the end the monster killed his loved ones which made his own creation backfire on him.
What started as a summer trip and a writing contest ended in the creation of an animal labeled as a monster who sought out revenge for people who caused his loneliness and isolation.

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