It is the summer of May 1816, and I am currently at Geneva along with Percy and Claire Clairmont. We are visiting the experienced poet, Lord Byron. He decides to rent a building near Lake Geneva, and we ended up writing stories, boating on the lake, and talking until late at night. It is a “wet, ungenial summer”, and during that time I reached the zenith in my writing career. One day on a rainy afternoon, Lord Bryon comes up of the idea of a competition to see who can write the best ghost stories. At that time, I encountered an inspiration that led me to start writing my novel, Frankenstein. Also, my husband encouraged me in my writings.
My Novel, Frankenstein
It is now a year after this incident, and I have finally accomplished this supernatural tale. Some of my ideas for this story came from “Luigi Calvani’s experiments with electric shocks to make dead frogs' muscles twitch”. This concept leads me into creating my monster from my novel. Lord Byron’s teacher, James Lind, actually demonstrates the technique to me so I truly know how the conception works. My book, Frankenstein, revolves around the central Romantic theme. My novel shows the critique of science in that it is dangerous when science tries to dominate nature because the monster created in my novel is done by science, and he ends up initiating chaos throughout the entire story. Also, my novel represents a factor in the poor treatment of women in which my mother, Mary Wollstoncraft, tried to fight against because it shows how the monster is isolated in society just like how some middle and lower class women were treated in my time of the 1800s. Most importantly,I hope my novel, Frankenstein, will soon become well-known, so people can see how it relates to the factors of everyday lives.
Sources: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/mshelley.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley
http://www.shmoop.com/mary-shelley/timeline.html
http://kabunky18.blogspot.com/2009/11/frankenstein-and-depiction-of-women.html
Western Civilization- Spielvogel Sixth Edition
Sources: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/mshelley.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley
http://www.shmoop.com/mary-shelley/timeline.html
http://kabunky18.blogspot.com/2009/11/frankenstein-and-depiction-of-women.html
Western Civilization- Spielvogel Sixth Edition
1 comments:
Oh my god! Huge fan! I love and adore your novel, Frankenstein. It's my all-time favourite book, and I always have a copy handy. I was wondering if this monster Dr. Frankenstein created can actually come into reality. I mean not like people rising from the dead, but a machine using electricity just like Dr. Frankenstein used lighting to bring a stopped, but not dead heart back to life. When a heart stops, it doesn't die immediately. If such a machine or technique could be invented, we could save a whole bunch of people suffering from heart attacks and serious allergy. I don't know, but maybe your novel inspired some great scientists out there. Many one day, this hear-reviving machine could be invented. I'll be waiting for it my whole life.
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