PPT-Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley

17971851 Author Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus 1818 Mathilda 1819 Valperga 1823 The Last Man 1826 Lodore 1835 Falkner 1837 William Godwin . Frankenstein. Modern World Literatures. Royal Institution . Lectures, . 1801. Quarterly . Review. , 18 (1818): 457-8, . on . Arctic exploration:. “[Such] expeditions may fail in the main object of the arduous enterprise; but they can scarcely fail in being the means of extending the sphere of human knowledge ... ‘Knowledge is power’; and we may safely commit to the stream of time the beneficial results of its irresistible influence.” . 1792. Percy . Bysshe Shelley Born. Percy . Bysshe Shelley is born in Horsham, England. He is the first of seven children of the Whig Parliamentarian Sir Timothy Shelley and his wife Elizabeth . Pilfold. Frankenstein. Alison Aitken, 2012. Mary Shelley. Born 1797. Died 1851. Wrote Frankenstein 1816. Published 1818. Image source: http://alextrenoweth.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/mary-shelley1.jpg. . Frankenstein. “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” . ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” . Frankenstein. Mary Shelley. Wrote . Frankenstein . when she was only 18. Published anonymously. Both parents were famous writers.. Marriage to Percy Shelley, a famous poet . “Romantic beyond romance.”. 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797. Aim:. To understand contextual information regarding Mary Shelley’s mother and the rights of women at the time.. What rights did women have during late 1800s?. Shelley’s mother, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote a text entitled “A Vindication of the Rights of Women”.. Frankenstein. “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” . ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” . Frankenstein. Mary Shelley. Daughter of famous writer William Godwin (wrote about injustice in government) and famous feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary was born five months after her parents married.. Epigraph.  . Did . I request thee, Maker,. From thy clay. To mould me Man, did I. Solicit thee. From darkness to promote me?. Book 10: 743-745. Milton’s . Paradise Lost. Mary Shelley. 30 . Frankenstein. The Origin of Modern Psychology And . Thematic Biography. Mary Godwin Shelley . 1797-1851. Mary Shelley’s Mother: . Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797). Mary Wollstonecraft. Author of . A Vindication of the Rights of Women . An Introduction. Mary Shelley. Born in 1797 to writers William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft.. Her mother died shortly after Mary was born.. Shelley learned about her mother through her writings, including . Mary Shelley’s Background information. Born in England on August 30. th. 1797. Her mother, also named Mary, died shortly after giving birth to her. Raised by her father. Both parents were established writers with radical beliefs for the time. Chapter 22, Section 2. All humans were naturally selfish and wicked, therefore governments must keep order.. People should hand over their rights to a strong ruler. This was what Hobbes called a . social contract. Volume I . Chapters 5 – 7 . Volume 2. Chapter 1. Chapter 5 marks a return to a previous narrative style. What device does Shelley use to maintain first person point of view, while allowing us to understand what has gone on at the Frankenstein residence in Geneva? .