Frankenstein: The Life Of Mary Wolstonecraft Shelley

   Frankenstein can be read as a tale of what happens when a man tries to create a child without a woman. It can, however, also be read as an account of a woman's anxieties and insecurities about her own creative and reproductive capabilities. The story of Frankenstein is the first articulation of a woman's experience of pregnancy and related fears. Mary Shelley, in the development and education of the monster, discusses child development and education and how the nurturing of a loving parent is extremely important in the moral development of an individual. Thus, in Frankenstein, Mary Shelley examines her own fears and thoughts about pregnancy, childbirth, and child development.

Frankenstein, a novel first published in the year 1818, stands as the most talked about work of Mary Shelley’s literary career. She was just nineteen years old when she penned this novel, and throughout her lifetime she could not produce any other work that surpasses this novel in terms of creativity and vision. In this novel, Shelley found an outlet for her own intense sense of victimization, and her desperate struggle for love. Traumatized by her failed childbirth incidents, troubled childhood, and scandalous courtship, many of Shelley’s life experiences can be seen reflected in the novel. When discussing the character and development of the monster, Shelley launches an extensive discussion on the

This novel reflects Shelley’s own childhood, which consisted of her feeling obligated to rebel against her own father’s wishes and his choice for her marriage. Frankenstein is a way for Shelley to tell her own experiences with parental conflict and how she feels she was affected by her demanding father and the environment she grew up in, by comparing herself to Victor’s monster. Shelley analyzed her own characteristics, and the characteristics of her father, and placed them within Victor and the

Frankenstein is a book written by Mary Shelley in 1818, that is revolved around a under privileged scientist named Victor Frankenstein who manages to create a unnatural human-like being. The story was written when Shelley was in her late teen age years, and was published when she was just twenty years old. Frankenstein is filled with several different elements of the Gothic and Romantic Movement of British literature, and is considered to be one of the earliest forms of science fiction. Frankenstein is a very complicated and complex story that challenges different ethics and morals on the apparent theme of dangerous knowledge. With the mysterious experiment that Dr. Victor Frankenstein conducted, Shelly causes her reader to ultimately ask

    Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein is commonly misrepresented as a horror story. Frankenstein’s creation is know by most to be an evil monster out to ravage the world around him. In reality the novel shows a story of a neglected loving creature, that has been unfairly labeled as a brute due to his unattractive appearance. Realities as abysmal as that of Frankenstein’s creation are hard to dream up, and indeed Shelley’s life shares many common themes with her characters. The idea of neglect and resentment so apparent in her novel was not a fantasy created by Shelley but a reflection of the emotions she was feeling at the time of writing. Her family was far from supportive in her childhood, and

Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, had been raised by strong women’s rights advocates, which makes her characterization of the women in her story a wildly controversial discussion topic even all these years later. Mary Shelley’s philosopher father paid for her high education, and her mother wrote several works about equality for women. She lived a substantially progressive lifestyle, considering the time period in which she lived. This has raised many questions regarding the weak female characters in her story, due to her own very contrasting beliefs.

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, is one of the most famous texts in literature, but it holds a much more different message than everyone is used to. When people think Frankenstein, they think “It’s alive!”, those words are never said nor implied in the actual book so it begs the question, what is this book really about? Some would say that it is a piece of literature about a man creating a monster that eventually comes back to haunt him. This may very well be true, but an interesting way to look at this text is through a feminist critical perspective. Specifically, the parent-child conflict that goes on throughout the book between Victor and his monster. Comparing this to the modern feminist allows for a look into Mary Shelley’s mind and what her

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley endured many hardships during her life. Some of these included her mother dieing during childbirth, her loathing stepmother, and later in life, the death of her beloved husband. Although she maintained a strong relationship with her father, it did not cover-up the absence of a strong maternal figure. Mary Shelley 's novel Frankenstein, was influenced by the pain she encountered in her life.

Childbirth in the 1900s, when Frankenstein was written, was fraught with peril and disaster during child-bearing which Mary Shelley experienced vividly through the majority of her life. Shelley lost all of her children at an early age and nearly died herself with an infection stemming from a stillbirth. Shelley explores the theme of childbirth through the creation of the monster by Frankenstein's hands, including the regret and pain that followed. Abortion is another aspect explored in her novel, the regrets of Doctor Frankenstein and his actions when creating the female monster show that terminating his creation before its life even began was on his mind. Using both childbirth and abortion as themes in Frankenstein enabled Shelley to write

In Frankenstein, the Creature kills some of Victor’s family members as revenge for being abandoned. When the couple’s second and third children die, Percy Shelley is struck with grief and depression. Much like this, Frankenstein spends a good part of the novel ill with a “nervous fever with which I had been seized just at the time that I dated my creation” (Shelley

“Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley was born out of the waking nightmare she had on June 16, 1816 (see notes 1 and 4). It was an intense vision that produced one of the greatest and powerful horror stories n the western literature, it is a story which assumed a mythic view as it taken into account the profound result concerning understanding of a man of his position in the world and the results of transgressing against nature and God (Gilbert, 2000, 1-4).

Young Author, Mary Shelley has directly advanced our view of the world and have caused us to become skeptical of one's knowledge constantly, as we deeply engage in her writings. She has used writing techniques that were beyond her time along with utilizing complex methods to convey information to the targeted audience. Her intense, fictional stories compel readers and draw in various audiences of all ages. Shelley’s life story is one of the most tragic, sorrowful tales on its own, and has influenced many of Shelley's novels, as it is oftentimes displayed in her work. One of her most famous novels, that has made its mark in the history of literature, is Frankenstein.

Have you heard of the book Frankenstein? I sure you have, in this paper I will share with you the life and the success of the famous author Mary Shelley. I will start with her child hood; Mary had two famous authors for parents William Goodwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. But unfortunately Mary mom died when she was only eleven days old Mary’s dad hired a nanny immediately. The nanny made Mary’s life full of adventures and fun times while the father was distancing from his children. Mary had a half-sister named Fanny. Mary’s father then married his neighbor her name was also Mary.(Mellor Anne K. “ Shelley, Mary (1797-1851) British writers supplement 3 Ed George Stade NY Charle)

A romantic life full of pain and abandonment could only be given the monstrous form of "Frankenstein." Mary Shelley 's life gave birth to an imaginary victim full of misery and loneliness and placed him as the protagonist of one of her most famous and greatest works of art. As most people would assume, he is not just a fictional character, but in fact a creature who desperately demonstrates Shelley 's tragedies and losses during the age of the Romantic Era. Since Mary Shelley 's birth there have been numerous losses in her life. One extremely dominating event in Shelley 's life was the death of her mother. Soon after, her father remarried and Shelley entered a battle as the victim of a fight for love. In her

Mary Shelley’s book, Frankenstein, parallels her own experiences. Shelley’s mother died in childbirth, and she was left “dependent on none and related to none.” Her father, William Godwin, abandoned his daughter emotionally when he remarried a woman who treated Mary poorly. Shelley often searched for an understanding of who she was. She did not have a mother to give her an education, so Mary taught herself by seeking