FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MARY SHELLEY
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Question
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Why did Mary Shelley write Frankenstein?
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because she wanted to criticise science
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for a contest with befriended writers
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because she wanted to use her new pencil
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because her husband asked her to do so
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Explanation:
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: -Mary Shelley recalls the ghost story competition at Villa Diodati in the Preface to her 1831 edition of Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus.
Detailed explanation-3: -Why did Mary Shelley write Frankenstein? She wrote it as a response to a challenge to a contest by Lord Byron and her husband, Percy Shelley, to think of a horror story. Whoever wrote the best story would be declared the winner.
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