Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - yet another Writers' Club Selection
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Frankenstein;
or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by Mary Shelley about
eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque
creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started
writing the story when she was nineteen, and the novel was published
when she was twenty-one. The first edition was published anonymously
in London in 1818. Shelley's name appears on the second edition,
published in France in 1823.
Shelley had
traveled in the region of Geneva, where much of the story takes
place, and the topics of galvanism and other similar occult ideas
were themes of conversation among her companions, particularly her
future husband, Percy Shelley. The storyline emerged from a dream.
Mary, Percy, Lord Byron, and John Polidori decided to have a
competition to see who could write the best horror story. After
thinking for weeks about what her possible storyline could be,
Shelley dreamt about a scientist who created life and was horrified
by what he had made. She then wrote Frankenstein.
The novel
Frankenstein is written in epistolary form, documenting a
correspondence between Captain Robert Walton and his sister, Margaret
Walton Saville. Walton is a failed writer who sets out to explore the
North Pole and expand his scientific knowledge in hopes of achieving
fame. During the voyage the crew spots a dog sled mastered by a
gigantic figure. A few hours later, the crew rescues a nearly frozen
and emaciated man named Victor Frankenstein. Frankenstein has been in
pursuit of the gigantic man observed by Walton's crew. Frankenstein
starts to recover from his exertion; he sees in Walton the same
over-ambitiousness and recounts a story of his life's miseries to
Walton as a warning.
Victor
begins by telling of his childhood. Born into a wealthy family in
Geneva, he is encouraged to seek a greater understanding of the world
around him through science. He grows up in a safe environment,
surrounded by loving family and friends. When he is four years old,
his parents adopt Elizabeth Lavenza, an orphan whose mother has just
died. Victor has a possessive infatuation with Elizabeth. Much of the
story focuses on this infatuation and the rise and fall of their
interactions. He has two younger brothers: Ernest and William.
As a young
boy, Victor is obsessed with studying outdated theories of science
that focus on achieving natural wonders. When he witnesses lightning
strike an oak tree, splitting it in two, he is inspired to harness
the power of lightning. His mother dies of scarlet fever weeks before
he leaves for the University of Ingolstadt in Germany. At university,
he excels at chemistry and other sciences, and develops a secret
technique to imbue inanimate bodies with life...
(source: Wikipedia)
(source: Wikipedia)
About the author:
Mary
Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1
February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer,
dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for
her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She
also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet
and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political
philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and
feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.
In 1816,
the couple famously spent a summer with Lord Byron, John William
Polidori, and Claire Clairmont near Geneva, Switzerland, where Mary
conceived the idea for her novel Frankenstein. The Shelleys left
Britain in 1818 for Italy, where their second and third children died
before Mary Shelley gave birth to her last and only surviving child,
Percy Florence. In 1822, her husband drowned when his sailing boat
sank during a storm in the Bay of La Spezia. A year later, Mary
Shelley returned to England and from then on devoted herself to the
upbringing of her son and a career as a professional author.
(source: Wikipedia)
(source: Wikipedia)
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