Work Cited

Shalley, Mary. Frankenstein. New York: Barnes and Noble Classics, 2003. 2003

Mary Shelley.

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Mary Shalley

Mary Godwin Wollstonecraft was born on August 30, 1797; she was the daughter of two rebels of the 1790's William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft.  Her mother died eleven days after her birth; she died from childbirth complications.  At the age of sixteen, she leaves to france with the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.  Shelley's first wife, whom he had abandoned for mary, drowned herself in the Serpentine River.  Mary and Percy married days after harriet's death.  Mary with her new family moved to the shores of the Lake Geneva, and there formed a gruoup of people that stayed up at night telling stories of scientifi and supernatural topics.  later one the grup members suggested the idia of having a contest to see who could write the scariest story among them.  Mary had a dream and realized she could used it as her story!  The novel Frankenstein was the result of the dream which mary had that summer.  Mary won the contest and later in 1818 Frankenstein was anonymously published, the novel was an instant success.  Mary had four children and only one lived beyond the age of three.  In june 1821, Mary almost died as she had a miscarriage of her fifth child and a month later shelley died in a boating accident at the age of twenty-nine in the Gulf of Spezia.  Mary never marry again and devoted the rest of her life to writing novels and traveling with her only son.  Mary Shalley died on February 1, 1851, and was buried with her parents at Bournemouth.

Themes

 Frankenstein by Mary Shalley has more than one theme throuhgout the novel but one of the most important is the secret of life which Victor trys to find!  Victor spends the majority of his life looking for secret of life which he believed that by find it he would  help everyone.  Victor's idea was helpless and impossible at the same time; he wanted to find a way to make everyone inmortal!As result he gives life to a monster to which he abandones him; Victor does not like his creation and leaves it on its own.  Abortion is another theme showned in this novel because both the monster and Victor express  their sense of the monster's hideousness.  Victor regrets the  thouhtless creation of the monster and wants to destroy such creation.  The nonster feels a similar disgust for himself; he feels lonely, rejection, and isolation.  The nonster wishes tha Victor had never engaged in his creation.