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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A contest with her friends
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A competition in Lord Byron’s house
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A contest in a villa on Lake Geneva
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All are correct
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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: -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: -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: -She wrote her masterpiece Frankenstein when she was just 19 years old, and the dark, stormy summer nights that helped bring her monstrous creation to life were nearly as dramatic as the novel itself.