ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

MARY SHELLEY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What event in Mary Shelley’s dreams inspired the novel?
A
A dead body coming alive on a surgery table.
B
A monster chasing her.
C
A green man being hit by lightning.
D
A mad scientist working with explosive chemicals.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Mary had a bad dream about a dead man reviving and haunting people around. It is believed that Mary’s dream was influenced by the untimely death of her 11-day-old girl in 1815. 3. The novel was published three times before it was accepted as an authentic work of Mary Shelley.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ultimately, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein as a way of putting her depression into coherent thoughts and ideas. Her miscarriages and the death of her mother was the cause of her postpartum depression, which she utilizes to write one of the greatest pieces of literature in the 20th century.

Detailed explanation-3: -That night, she dreamed of a plot for a “tale that haunted my midnight pillow, ” as she wrote in the introduction to the novel’s 1831 edition. The book tells the story of a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who builds a creature from dismembered corpses.

Detailed explanation-4: -In her 1831 preface to the novel, she attributed her inspiration to a nightmare she had at Geneva, where the company spent their evenings terrifying each other with chilling stories.

Detailed explanation-5: -Frankenstein’s dream after “giving birth” suggests that the creature represents the unspeakable body of the mother within the Symbolic Order. Shelley’s representation of female characters implies that sadism and sensibility are complementary responses to the paradoxical views of motherhood within patriarchy.

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