Quote from Mary Shelley 4

"My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings."

Personally, what Mary Shelley is trying to say here is that she no longer had to dream what she could do with her talent; she could now show it in her books, poems, and other writings. This was mainly due to the restrictions that were current on the 1800's where women could not and were not allowed to do work that men did; it was prohibited for a women to write a book. Women were restricted at home, house wifes and thats it. However, once she sought the chance to write her thoughts on paper it became clear that talent does not come with gender.

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Quote from Mary Shelley 3

"I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves."

This here seems, perhaps, a constant struggle that woman have today in the workforce. A lot of women compete as if they will dominate man in the workforce or even at home. Naturally, men are more practical and women are more emotional; however, I do agree that women should have power over themselves. I do agree with Mary Shelley because this is a way of saying if women have character and show confidence that sets them apart from another woman in a non emotional way then that woman has power over herself and could possibly have power over a man, easily.

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Quote from Mary Shelley 2

"Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil. "

Here in this quote we can tell that Mary Shelley was conscience of the hypocrisy there was in politics. We all know that our government, like many others in the world, have ways of persuading deeds in exchange for their own ideological investments. Not all, but some, politicians have interests in foreign countries' oil, gold and other natural minerals which lead to the persuasion of war or conflict. War or conflicts would be the productive evil carried out by the persuasion of politicians that pose to carry out good, or freedom, for the people of its native country. Mary Shelley was very astute and knowledgeable because this definitely went on before and are events that continue to happen daily.

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Quote from Mary Shelley 1

"A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse."

-A quote directly from Mary Shelley.

This is representation clearly expresses the struggle for women to gain equality in society. It is very common for a man to show his presence as the authority; as the one who directs all to do what needs to be done around the work area and home. Women often cannot endure the struggle because in many cases they have to give something to get where they want; often times it can be to give up their dignity in exchange for a promotion in the work place.

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Mary's Literature Encouraging for other Women

"Article abstract: As an innovative and politically subversive writer of novels, tales, and stories, Shelley was a significant contributor to the history of women’s writing and the development of prose fiction."

Shelley is considered one of the very first contributors of women authors. Women couldn't do anything men did which forced women to falsify names and publish their books with a mans name. Shelley encouraged other women to express their talent and ideas to others through their novels due to Shelley's novels. Shelley is the reason more women started writing more and more books were published with new novels to read and new ideas to feed the imagination as well as entertainment.

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Mary Shelley's relation during the Enlightened and Romantic Era

"Just as her fictional scientist found his name forever fused with the name of his greatest creation, so Mary Shelley is forever associated with her greatest creation: her novel Frankenstein. And why not? Shelly wrote it at an amazingly young age (19!), and it is one of the most influential novels of the last two centuries. However, two things are even more impressive than Shelley's age when she wrote it: that the creature she created has moved into our shared reference (like a modern myth), and that her work could speak to so many people and still be so deeply personal as the novel was to her. Frankenstein is rooted in Shelley's life, her family, her philosophies, and her loves."

We could clearly see, Mary and her creation of the book Frankenstein, that she is recording a time in history as well as her personal life. This is evidence that very few people had the urge to explore new horizons; not many people wanted to bother "thinking outside the box". A lot of people during Mary's lifetime thought it was blasphemous to even start teaching others anything other than the bible and standard schooling. Mary definitely took her thoughts to another level and engraved her imaginations to all who have read it since and even now. We can now use this literature to embrace our knowledge and challenge ourselves mentally for life.

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Frankenstein birth!

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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More facts

“The idea for Frankensteincame to Mary Shelley as the result of a ghost story contest between Mary, her husband, the poet Lord Byron, and Dr. John Polidori. It came to her in a dream.”

Clearly we can tell how creative she was in comparison to her character, Dr Frankenstein, from her book Frankenstein. She shares this passion of creativity which helped her pursue and complete her dreams as a writer.

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Mary Shelly - Couple of facts

"Shelley’s mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, was an influential feminist. Her A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) helped found the modern feminist movement and provided much of its early philosophical foundation." This is stating the initial push of women writers who were talented and ready to share their creativity with everyone. Thanks to her mother she was able to accomplish these goals as well as other goals. Just like Dr Frankenstein, he persevered until he woke the "monster" from his corruption.”

"When she was 16, Mary married Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of the greatest Romantic poets of all time. (They eloped.) Percy Shelley was a freethinker and a radical. He helped Mary complete her education...and tried to make her part of a free love community in which several people would share partners."

This is important to know because we can tell that she didn't have much access to information; yet, she was able to cultivate and harvest her ideas which helped her become a very creative and intellect woman.

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