Frankenstein context
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- Frankenstein Context
- Mary Shelley
- Percy Shelley
- His wife, Harriet also had an affair. but despite this Harriet fell pregnant with Percy’s child. She drowned herself in London in November of 1816; Mary and Percy were married weeks later.
- As a teenager Mary met Percy Shelley, a dashing young poet. Sparks flew, and, in 1814, they ran away together for a tour of France, Switzerland, and Germany—Mary escaping her family and Percy his wife.
- Percy edited Mary’s manuscript for Frankenstein
- PArents and early Life
- Her Mother died giving birth to her so she was left in the care of her father
- Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, was the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, a feminist tract encouraging women to think and act for themselves.
- Lost a sister to suicide
- Tradgedy
- From 1815 to 1819, three of her four children died in infancy
- in 1822, Percy drowned off the shore of Tuscany, leaving Mary a widow and single mother
- Percy Shelley
- 1812
- Time of great scientific progress
- The Creature represents the dangers of science and how the future of science is unknown
- Electricity
- Anatomy
- Scientists at the time were discussing the posibility of bringing the dead back to life
- Scientists at the time were discussing the posibility of bringing the dead back to life
- Time of social change
- Shelley's parents' viewpoints greatly influenced her own- socialist, femenist
- She had the same femenist viewpoints as her mother.
- Shows that life should only be created by a woman or it will go horribly wrong
- She had the same femenist viewpoints as her mother.
- Time of great scientific progress
- The Creature represents the dangers of science and how the future of science is unknown
- Electricity
- Anatomy
- 1789 – French RevolutionThis showed what happens when the lower classes are treated badly by the state – they rebel
- Shelley uses the Creature to warn the Government against mistreating the masses
- Shelley's parents' viewpoints greatly influenced her own- socialist, femenist
- Gothig Genre was very popular in the 18th and 19th century
- Religion
- Relious believers were horrified by the prospect of creating life because it was seen as playing God and disrespecting the sanctity of life.
- Christian
- Relious believers were horrified by the prospect of creating life because it was seen as playing God and disrespecting the sanctity of life.
- Time of great scientific progress
- Gothic Genre
- Outsider; Isolation ; Loneliness
- Combines elements of horror and romance
- Gothig Genre was very popular in the 18th and 19th century
- Epistolary Novel- written as a series of letters
- Setting
- Isolated; Abandoned
- Bad Weather ( Pathetic Fallacy)
- Fear of the unknown
- Monsters; Supernatural
- Mary Shelley
- Gothic Genre
- Outsider; Isolation ; Loneliness
- Combines elements of horror and romance
- Epistolary Novel- written as a series of letters
- Setting
- Isolated; Abandoned
- Bad Weather ( Pathetic Fallacy)
- Fear of the unknown
- Monsters; Supernatural
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