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Mary Shelley And The Night That Birthed Frankenstein

" In the summer of 1816 a cold spell swept across Europe and North America. The unusual chill caused snowfall in July and unparalleled thunderstorms. Pamphlets were passed around predicting the end of the world.

Mary had spent her childhood haunted by the idea that she’d murdered her mother and was determined to prove her consequent life worthy. It had not been easy growing up the child of famed revolutionaries. Now, practically disowned by the father she adored, and in the company of the poetic geniuses, Byron and Percy, Mary felt an even greater need to prove herself.

Mary wrote, “I busied myself to think of a story,- a story to rival those which had excited us to this task. One which would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature, and awaken thrilling horror.” "

- Mary's sub-conscience of quilt and terrified that she had nothing else to live for decided to make something out of her life. Mary Shelley did regret in some ways her evil deed. She had to search deep and far deep into her soul and decided what she would do rather than agonize all her life about her mistake. Motivated from her disastrous past fueled the conception of Frankenstein.

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