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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The death of her first born child.
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Her mother’s death while giving birth to her.
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The death of her husband.
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All of the above.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
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: -Victor continues to hold himself responsible for both the existence of the horrifying creature and the creature’s deadly deeds. He spends his remaining days on earth chasing the creature across the Arctic, intending to kill him.
Detailed explanation-4: -Answer: At the age of seventeen, Victor Frankenstein leaves his family in Geneva to attend the university at Ingolstadt. Just before Victor departs, his mother catches scarlet fever from Elizabeth, whom she has been nursing back to health, and dies.