Introduction & Historical Background.  British author  Née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin  1797 – 1851  Mother was Mary Wollstonecraft  Famous feminist.

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Introduction & Historical Background

 British author  Née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin  1797 – 1851  Mother was Mary Wollstonecraft  Famous feminist writer  She died after giving birth to Mary Shelley  Father William Godwin  Famous political philosopher

 When Shelley was 16, she began a romantic relationship with Percy Shelley. He was 21 and married with a child on the way.  They often met secretly at her mother’s grave  They ran away together to Switzerland.

 Shelley’s sister Fanny committed suicide.  Percy Shelley’s wife, pregnant with their third child, drowned in an apparent suicide.  Mary Shelley became pregnant with Percy Shelley’s child. The baby was born premature and died 2 weeks later.  Mary and Percy Shelley were married in 1816.

 Mary Shelley had a recurring dream that her dead child came back to life.  She wrote in her journal:  “Dream that my little baby came to life again – that it had only been cold and we rubbed it by the fire and it lived – I awake and find no baby.”  She gave birth to a health baby boy the following year.

 In 1816, the Shelleys visited Lord Byron in Geneva.  Because of the rain, they were often stuck indoors.  To pass time, they stayed up late discussing science, philosophy, and topics such as the possibility of returning a corpse to life and galvinism.  Galvinism – stimulating muscles by electric currents.

 They also read German ghost stories around the fire. Byron suggested they write their own horror stories.  This is when Mary Shelley came up with the idea for Frankenstein.

Recurring dream about her baby coming back to life. + Deep conversations about science and philosophy. + Suggestion to write a horror story. = FRANKENSTEIN

 It is a gothic novel of the Romantic Movement, and one of the first examples of science fiction.

 The second title for the book is A Modern Prometheus.  Prometheus was a titan in Greek mythology, who created mankind. He then secretly took fire from heaven and gave it to them.  When Zeus discovered this, he sentenced Prometheus to be eternally punished by fixing him to a rock where each day an eagle would peck out his liver, only for the liver to regrow the next day.  Fire is the gift that hurts in the end, such as the Industrial Revolution—Man is given too much power and abuses it.

 The novel begins with the correspondence between Robert Walton and his sister Margaret. He set out to explore the North Pole and ends up encountering Dr. Victor Frankenstein in pursuit of his monster, and he warns Walton about the dangers of ambition.  Example: The Princess Bride Film