FRANKENSTEIN

MARY SHELLEY

Mary Shelley was born on 30th of August of 1797 in London, and she died on the 1st of February of 1851 in England because of a brain cancer. She was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her novel Frankenstein, which we are watching in class. 

Her father was a political philosopher and her mother was a philosopher, she was also very feminist.

She wrote Frankenstein in 1818, so we can say that this is an historical novel. He always wanted to be a writer. She wrote other novels like Valperga, The last Man, the autobiographical Lodore and Mathilde.

FRANKENSTEIN

Frankenstein is a popular old novel written by Mary Shelley. It talks about a man, Victor, from Geneva, who wanted to create life. He had this idea because her mother died during childbirth, and he thought that it shouldn’t happen. He went to study to another place and he studied how to create life, he finally got it. But the result wasn’t what he expected. He created a monster.

We can say that this is a masterpiece, a classical and a universal story because it talks about different topics that people can identify with. It gives us examples of topics like:

-Relationships between people.

-We can’t abandon our challenges and problems.

-Everything we expect to be good can be finally wrong.