PPT-Introduction to Mary Shelley and

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. 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. “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.”. . (1797-1851). A look at literary criticism and conversations about Shelley’s novel, . Frankenstein. By: Jessica Berke. Inspiration behind the novel. The idea for what is often called the first science fiction novel was born on the shores of Lake Geneva, in the "year without a summer. 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.” . 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 . . Fall 2013. Frankenstein. by . MarY. Shelley. Mary Shelley was born Mary . Wollstoncraft. in 1797 to William Godwin and Mary. Wollstoncraft. both very prominent and liberal writers. Her mother had written . 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. Horror Stories . What scares us? Why? . Think about the scariest movie you’ve ever seen...what made it scary? . What is the scariest monster in film/books? . >What makes the monster scary? . Why do we seem to take pleasure in scaring ourselves? . :. Frankenstein. Belongs in . the . Canon. Marsha Law, M. S. Ed.. CORE Academy, June 2015. marshalaw3@gmail.com. “I think most readers will agree that . Frankenstein. really is a good novel, both scary and . 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? .