FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MARY SHELLEY
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Her love for Percy Shelley
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A dream at the house of Lord Byron
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The death of Percy Shelley
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Meeting Coleridge
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1816, Mary, Percy, and Lord Byron had a competition to see who could write the best horror story. After thinking for days, Shelley was inspired to write Frankenstein after imagining a scientist who created life and was horrified by what he had made.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Why did Mary Shelley write Frankenstein? She wrote it as a response to a contest by Lord Byron and her husband to think of a horror story.
Detailed explanation-4: -Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was famously inspired by telling ghost stories with Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron during a cold, wet summer in the Swiss Alps. It continues to serve as shorthand for the dangers of reckless scientific advance, yet literary historians have never been able to agree on its origins.
Detailed explanation-5: -As a diversion from the rainy day boredom, Lord Byron suggested that everyone present should write a “ghost story, ” and Mary Shelley penned the first draft of Frankenstein in response. Byron himself didn’t produce any notable ghost story that summer, but he, Shelley and Polidori believed Mary’s tale was exceptional.