Mary Shelley- Author of Frankenstein

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Mary Shelley- Author of Frankenstein

Main Details

Parents: William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft

Spouse(s): Percy Bysshe Shelley (married. 1816–1822; his death)

Famous works: Frankenstein (1818)

Occupation: Writer

Death: 1 February 1851 (aged 53) Chester Square, London

Birth: 30 August 1797 Somers Town, London

Her Life

Starter writing Frankenstein after they moved to England.

She had moved to France with her lover

She fell in love with Mr. Shelley and later had a child who also died in a few days just like her mother after she was born.

Her father was a great philosopher, so her house was visited by many famous writers of those times.

Her mother dies in a few days after she is born.

Frankenstein

Dr Frankenstein is a brilliant scientist,who is obsessed with the idea of gaining control over life and death, refusing the limits of contemporary science. He carries out his research alone and unaided until he eventually succeeds in bringing to life a monster he has created out of the organs of dead men. However, even Frankenstein is frightened when he sees the fruit of his insane fantasy. The monster escapes from the laboratory and appears some time later in the Swiss Alps, where he is rejected by all the men that he encounters, not so much for his ugliness as for his clearly non-human features. His need to communicate with others is continually frustrated and anger towards all mankind builds up leading to a tragic climax in his killing of Frankenstein's best friend, his little brother and his wife. The monster takes refuge at the North Pole knowing that only there, in a place of total desolation he will kill no more. Dr Frankenstein follows him, intending to kill his creation but it is the doctor himself who is mortally wounded by the monster. He accuses Dr Frankenstein and the rest of mankind of lacking all compassion. The story ends with the monster being borne away on an ice raft in the Arctic sea.