Mary Shelley Life And Frankenstein

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Mary Shelley Life And Frankenstein

It is clearly evident that there are many parallels between the novel
Frankenstein and the life of its author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Throughout
her life, Shelley experienced many deaths of loved ones. These tragedies led her
to create a monster story that expressed her psychological state of mind. From
researching biographical texts of Shelley, I learned that the deaths of loved
ones that Mary Shelley experienced had a significant influence on the plot of
Frankenstein. Mary Shelley was born into a family that contained notable
writers, William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. These two writers influenced
Mary Shelley’s decision to become a writer. One night as Shelley was going to
sleep, she began thinking of a horror story. Before she realized it, pages and
pages of words were flowing and soon enough, Frankenstein was created. Without
realizing it, Shelley was incorporating events that were taking place in her
life to the story that she was writing. Mary Wollstonecraft became very sick
when Shelley was born. She had suffered due to complications during childbirth.
Everything happened all at once and two weeks after she gave birth, Mary
Wollstonecraft died. Mary Shelley was the cause of the death of her mother.
Never would she be able to get close and bond with her mother the way mothers
and daughters do. She realized that she had to stay strong and accept what life
had to offer her. “Though she had struggled to reject that instinctive guilt,
carefully schooled as she had been in logic throughout her thirteen years by her
renowned philosopher father, the thought continued to haunt her” (Leighton 3).
Thoughts of her mother would always be with her, but life had to go on. There
was no better way for Shelley to keep the spirit of her mother alive then by
following in her mother’s footsteps and becoming a writer. Now she would be
able to be as expressive as she wanted and release all her grieves and emotions.
The way Shelley’s mother died is quite similar to the way Frankenstein’s
mother died. While his mother was taking care of Elizabeth, his “sister,”
from scarlet fever, she became very sick and simultaneously died. Here,
Elizabeth feels that she is the one responsible for her mother’s death. If she
had insisted that her mother stay away from her while she was sick, she would
have still been alive. Elizabeth and Victor had to accept what happened and move
on with their lives. “My mother was dead, but we had still duti...

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