FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MARY SHELLEY
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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In an ugly man she met on one of her trips.
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In a nightmare he had at 18 years of age.
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In a horror story that they told him.
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In nothing, he just started writing.
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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: -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-3: -Since Shelley created the catalyst for the science fiction genre, without Frankenstein, we wouldn’t have many of the great stories we do today such as H.G. Well’s The Time Machine and Frank Herbert’s Dune. These stories, much like Frankenstein, rely on science as the literary tool which moves the story along.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -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.