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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leave him lying on his bed
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bury him
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Take the heart and burn it
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Comerselo
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Detailed explanation-1: -The heart was eventually given to Mary Shelley, who reputedly kept it in her desk until her death thirty years later. Louis Édouard Fournier, The Cremation of Percy Bysshe Shelley, oil on canvas, Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery.
Detailed explanation-2: -Instead of burying it with the rest of his remains in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome, Mary kept the heart in a silken shroud, and is said to have carried it with her nearly everywhere for years. In 1852, a year after she died, Percy’s heart was found in her desk.
Detailed explanation-3: -Following the cremation of Percy Shelley’s body, his heart was still relatively intact, although burned. It was taken from the ashes by Leigh Hunt, one of Percy’s friends. Mary kept it for her lifetime. When she died, it was kept by their son, Percy Florence Shelley and was buried with him when he died.
Detailed explanation-4: -Pregnancy and childbirth, as well as death, was an integral part of Mary Shelley’s young adult life. She had four children and a miscarriage that almost killed her.