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单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,Mary Shelley,Mary Shelley,1,Portrait of Mary Shelley,Mary Shelley,the author of the legendary Frankenstein,was no commonplace nineteen-year-old teenager.In a matter of way,she was a literary novice in her own respect,right from childhood.Being the daughter to the thinker,novelist and publisher William Godwin and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft,she basked amongst literary elite right from her early days.,Portrait of Mary Shelley Mary,2,Whilst girls of her age attended to ball frocks and hair-dos she was more occupied with contemporary Gothic novels;,Paradise Lost,by Milton,Paradise Regained,Areopagetica,Lycidas,and,Comus,.On the other end,Shelly digested the works of her poet-husband Pryce Shelley,Byron,Wordsworth,and Coleridge and while writing down the notorious,Frankenstein,she was going through,Gullivers Travels,by Swift.,To some degree,Frankenstein was more of a girls wonder that owed to childhood feasts on dark and peculiar fantasies.,Whilst girls of her age a,3,How was Frankenstein Born,One Dark Stormy Night,How was Frankenstein BornOne D,4,It started one stormy night at the residence of Lord Byron where a group of contemporary literati were assembled.Mary Shelly was also visiting,accompanied by her future husband Percy Shelley.To pass the stormy days and nights,they decided they would have a competition to see who could write the best horror story.It was one such night,Mary Shelly saw her monsters first silhouette in dream.Shelley dreamt about a scientist who created life and was horrified by what she had made.Then Frankenstein was written.,PS,:,Ellen Moers was one of the first to claim that Shelleys loss of a baby was a crucial influence on the writing of,Frankenstein,.,How was Frankenstein Born,It started one stormy nigh,5,The,influence,of,her,parents,Mary Shelley(1797-1851)was destined to become one of the most prominent figures in English literature.Both her parents were revolutionaries and writers:Her father William Godwin(1756-1836)was an English journalist and novelist and one of the major proponents of anarchist philosophy.Marys mother Mary Wollstonecraft(1759-1797),one of the earliest feminists,was equally radical.In her book,A Vindication of the Rights of Women,Wollstonecaft argues that the inferior role of women in society was not natural,but rather a consequence of miseducation.She called for equality of women and men,the womens right to work and proper education for girls.Although she died ten days after giving birth to her daughter Mary,her works continued to influence Mary Shelley.Mary grew up surrounded by intellectual minds and she was educated and tutored by her father,who married his second wife Mary Jane Clairmont in 1801.,TheinfluenceofherparentsMary S,6,Percy Shelley,a poet and radical free-thinker,fell in love with Mary,despite being still married to his first wife Harriet.Mary and Percy both shared a love for literature and they used to discuss literary classics and philosophy.,The influence of her husband,Percy Shelley,a poet and,7,The story is partially based on Giovanni Aldinis,electrical experiments on dead and(sometimes)living animals and was also a warning against the expansion of modern humans in the Industrial Revolution,alluded to in its subtitle,The Modern Prometheus,.It has had a considerable influence across literature and popular culture and spawned a complete genre of horror stories and films.,Social Background,The story is partia,8,Latent reasons behind Mary Shelleys account of Frankenstein included the death of her first child,Willy,whom she had thoughts about,restoring to life.Additionally,hers was an era of scientific exploration and biological experimentation.Galvanism was regarded as a way to call upon life in corpses through electrification,leading to mythical qualities.Also,there had been successive deaths in her family shaping her infant brain to see the traumatic side of life and escapism.,The dream,in the after math of Lord Byrons challenge coupled with Mary Shelleys contemporary and domestic situation lead her to write the story of Frankenstein monster,a creature cursed by his own plight.,Latent reasons behind M,9,The Revelation,Guilt&Anxieties,Feminist,The worry for science and technology,The romantic promethean,Lacking faith in Godwins theory,The RevelationGuilt&Anxietie,10,To some degree,the book shows Shelleys,guilt,for causing her mothers death as well as for failing as a parent.Shelley scholar Anne K.Mellor suggests that,from a feminist viewpoint,it is a story about what happens when a man tries to have a baby without a woman.Frankenstein is profoundly concerned with natural as opposed to unnatural modes of production and reproduction.Victor Frankensteins failure as a parent in the novel has been read as an expression of the,anxieties,which accompany pregnancy,giving birth,and particularly maternity.,To some degree,the
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