By: Cody Conyers & Zach Morgan

The Life of Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley was born on august 30, 1797 as Mary Godwin. Mary's mother died soon after her birth and she and her half sister Fanny gained a stepsister , Claire, when her father remarried Mary Jane Clairmont. There were bitter times for Mary growing up with a cruel step mother and emotionally distant father; she consoled herself at her mothers graveside and spent periods of time in Scotland with friends of the family. She was educated at home by tutors were she studied her parents writings, literature and poetry, as well as learning Latin, French and Italian. She also read the works of the Enlightenment literary figures her unorthodox parents associated with including the poets William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Charles Lamb.

Marys future husband

Mary met her future husband Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) around the age of sixteen when he became acquainted with her atheist father and his philosophy, which he soon adopted. He spent most of his time at the Godwin's house hold discussing politics and events of the day. Percy was unhappily married to Harriet Westbrook (17951816) at the time, and despite Mary's father forbidding her to see him anymore, he and Mary eloped to to france in 1814 with Claire in tow for a six week tour of Europe. Marys fathers free love philosophy did not esxtend to her and they were estranged until she married

Marys family life

Living in london with Claire and Percy, Mary and Percys daughter Clara was born in February of 1815 though she died a few weeks later.

Soon after, William was born (1816-1819) and the trio set out without a summer of 1816 at lake Geneva.
Mary and Percy married on December 30 th 1816 at St. mildreds church in london. They jointly wrote about their travels in history of 6 weeks tour(1817). , where Lord George Gordon Byron also summered and had a scandalous affair with Claire. They had a daughter, Allegra Byron (18171822).

Why did she write Frankenstein

Mary Shelleys novel Frankenstein, is presented as an encoded message of unconscious emotions of pain that served as a waking expression of unconscious feelings of hurt in reaction to Percy. The monsters role plays the part of idea of her relations with Percy being, in some ways deformed, hurtful, and hideous in ways. It is further proposed that the losses and frustration of her earliest years inclined her to accept Percy's violations in the hope of the secure love she longed for. The answer relates to this paper's title, in accounts for why Frankenstein is taken to refer to the unnamed monster and not its creator.

Romanticism
Romanticism- is defined by having romantic feelingsthat make you want to do something.

The literary movement- Known as romanticism developedas a reaction to many social influences.
The unrest of the French Revolution exess of the industrial revolution and widespread poverty and oppression of workers.