"I placed my head on my pillow, I did not sleep, nor could I be said to think. My imagination unbidden, possessed and guided me.. I saw with shut eyes, but acute mental vision, - the pale student of unhallowed arts standing before the thing he had put together, I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion... frightful must it be; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavour to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world. His success would terrify the artist; he would rush away from his odious handiwork, horror stricken.... He (the artist) sleeps but he is awakened; he opens his eyes; behold, the horrid thing stands at his bedside, opening his curtains and looking on him with yellow, watery, but speculative eyes." Frankenteinfilms.com. This is the vision she had and the vision which is described in the preface of the novel and is the vision she had some days after she and her friends decided to write a ghost story. This vision led her to write Frankenstein in which the events in her dream are represented.
Her dream has influenced the content of her book very much, however many other aspects of her life are represented in the book she had written. She wrote about life and death, and creation, and these be a derivative of the events which have taken place in her life, such as the death of her mother and children, and the run off of her husband at some point in her life. Her dream however, gave her a pathway to create the story which could express many underlying issues she had.
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