MARY SHELLEY’S LIFE

He had a different perspective of love as something to be felt with freedom; for Mary's husband

marriage was just an illogical. He would prefer a relation without boundaries keeping people always of the world around them. This idea actually came from his actual marriage in that moment. As Mary fell in love with him she ignored his vision and run away to live their affair.

Throughout the whole life of Mary Shelley, death has always followed her:

• Starting with her mother’s death, she died because she get very ill after giving Mary birth.

• When Mary was 17 years old, she had a baby (premature) and the child died after a few weeks.

• When Mary was in her 19s her half-sister Mary Wollstonecraft killed herself.

During 19th century, women did not have actually real rights or voice, that is why I was almost impossible to be recognized as a writer. In those years she decided to publish the book anonymously because women were supposed to meet the role of the mother, wife, man’s possession, and so forth.

Three of her children die when they were only starting to live

• Clara: the baby girl who died a few week after her birth.

• Clara Everina: who get sick of dysenrety and dies in Italy

• William: a three years old boy who died of malaria in Italy.

With only 29 years old, on July 1st, 1822, Percy Shelley dies. He was found death on the beach and recognized after a days of going out sailing with a friend in order to visit Lord Byron.

She worked hard so the world could know his husband’s poetry and the wonderful work he had done. She tried also to support herself and her son by writing different novels.

The book was actually a success, however, it happened just after her son William got Malaria, so she could not really enjoy the success she was gaining by her writing.

Like Mary, Clair wanted to be the wife of a poet so she seducted Byron by writing him letters. After some time she won the title of being Lord Byron mistress, and she get pregnant, however after he time Byron get tired of Clair and lost interest on her.

The romantic period was not about romance, fairytales and happy endings; it was more focused on nature, science and a very elegant way to narrate ordinary situations of life as the most scientific and elegant style to express what happens.

For example:

• Love of nature: The scenes in the whole book that were presented were always wonderful, the way it talked about the mountains, cities and the creature itself.

• Individualism: From the perspective of Frankenstein learning to live in this world by his own. And Victor feeling the power of creating life himself.

• Pessimist tone: Frankenstein is very depressed being, so the way he analyzed his life and the reason why he was alive make him wish never arrive to this world.