Mary Shelley
Taryn Morris
Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley is a British/English:August 30th 1791Death:Febuary 1, 1851Gothic Movement/ Philosophical was educated at home by tutors were she studied her parents writings and literature and poetry as well as learning Latin, french, and ItalianThough were many Gothic influences around Shelley in 1816, she wrote Frankenstein as neither finished Gothic nor a science novel, actually the focus of Mary Shelley s Frankenstein has move to do with everyday relationships with the misuse of science or how to enjoy a good gore fest.
Mary Shelley was no ordinary 19 year old, she was the daughter of radical novelist William Godwin and feminist Mary Wollstone and the wife one of the leading second generations romantic poets, she was as Gilbert and Guber style her one of England's most notable literary heiresses. Both her mother influence and her own youthful self-assertiveness should not be underestimated. They clearly stand for instance in marked contrast to the closely circumscribed expectations of the women figure in Frankenstein. There are two further areas in Frankenstein seems to register many Wollstone's influence on her daughters thinking. One is in the extensive record of travel in the novel part of which is filtered through Mary Shelley's first published work " A history of a six week tour" , an account than in its small way appears to emulate her mothers masterful letters written during a short residence in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. The second influence is more direct and telling. There exists no closer model in literature for the existential isolation of Victor Frankenstein creature than Wollstonecraft's haunting profit of the orderly in the insane asylum to which her heroine of Maria, of the wrongs of woman is confined. Frankenstein is also seen by many as a parallel to some of the events of Mary Shelley own life. Her apparent inability to produce a healthy child of her own is reflected in Victor Frankenstein disgust all his own failure in creating a human life. Moreover, the creatures quest for love in some way mirrors the lack that Shelley felt as a motherless child. In addition like her mother Shelley's "monster" strives to bring enlightenment and benefits mankind once it has become educated.