LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE ENGLISH ROMANTIC
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Because their friend Keats died
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Because their friend Byron died
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Because their love ended
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Because Some of their children died
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Detailed explanation-1: -Mary recounts a recurring dream in which she was able to resuscitate her baby: “Dreamt that my little baby came to life again – that it had only been cold & that we rubbed it by the fire & it lived – I awake & find no baby – I think about the little thing all day”.
Detailed explanation-2: -Only one of the Shelleys’ four children survived. The first, a girl whose name, if she had one, has been lost to the ages, lived only a few weeks. William and Clara died as toddlers, and the Shelleys were childless before the birth of their fourth and last child, Percy Florence.
Detailed explanation-3: -In July Hunt, with his family, joined the Shelleys at Leghorn (Livorno) to Shelley’s great delight, but a week later Shelley, Edward Elleker Williams and Charles Vivian were drowned when Shelley’s boat capsized off the coast near Pisa.
Detailed explanation-4: -Mary sustained two devastating blows while writing Frankenstein: the suicides of her half sister Fanny and Harriet Shelley, Percy’s first wife. These tragedies drove home what Mary already knew: unmarried mothers and illegitimate children were hated by society just like Frankenstein’s creature.