FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MARY SHELLEY
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Scotland has maintained a solid diplomacy with England and a peace that allowed them a prosperous industrial development.
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It was possible to demonstrate a battle that caused Mary to leave the Island and return to London
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England, being located south of France, had the best land transport in the world
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Mary Shelley wrote stories about the culture of the Mediterranean taking advantage of her first plane trips to Greece
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Detailed explanation-1: -Because of tensions with her stepmother and illness, in 1812 Mary was sent to live in Scotland with William Baxter, an acquaintance of her father. There she became friends with his daughter Isabell, and later wrote that in Scotland she made up fantasy tales.
Detailed explanation-2: -Frankenstein was set in the 18th century, at the end of the enlightenment and romanticism period. Enlightenment emphasized reason, analysis, and individualism. Rather than following religious teachings, enlightenment thinkers turned to scientific study and practiced scepticism, similar to Victor Frankenstein.
Detailed explanation-3: -Lord Byron’s suggestion of a ghost story competition to while away their Swiss holiday not only inspired Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, but also Polidori’s short prose The Vampyre (1819) which later became a source of inspiration for Bram Stoker’s seminal work, Dracula (1897).
Detailed explanation-4: -Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born in 1797 to two exceptional writers. Her father, William Godwin, was an acclaimed journalist and political philosopher. Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, was the author of the radical book, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, among other celebrated works.