Tuesday, October 21, 2008

mary shelley?

so did this mary shelly  have a pretty messed up life or what?

well as i am reading Frankenstein i cant help but think that maybe Shelley's life was really sad or something or maybe similar to this. I don't know but i was curious to know what inspired her to write this novel..

so yeah, Mary's life was pretty horrible. Her mother died giving birth to her, so she never met her. She was raised by her father and then ran away with Percy, her soon to be husband. her first baby dide in the womb, so thats the beginning of her troubles. she then had 2 other kids who died. they finally had their 4th and last child but he lived. then her husband drowned. so basically she had a pretty depressing life. but she wrote Frankenstein because she was with a group of friends and they had a "most scary story" contest. im pretty sure she probably won but that is also how Dracula came about. Ok, i just thought all that was pretty interesting so i thought I'd share!

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