ENGL200B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: William Godwin, Percy Florence Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
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Summarize the main events in the life of mary shelley. Identify the importance of shelley"s parents in regards to literary and political history. Explain the ways in which the novel frankenstein responds to the main currents of. Evaluate the novel frankenstein as a rebuttal of certain romantic ideals. 9, the chapter where the creature asks frankenstein to make him a mate and the ensuing events that takes place because of this request. Born 1797 to mary wollstonecraft (author of a vindication of the rights of woman) and. William godwin: mother was a feminist, father was a radical, shelley"s mother mary dies at 11 days from giving birth transmission infection (uterary) Happy in early life: has older half sister, cared for by nurse until age 3. Father remarried: jane clairmont, (she too already has two children) New wife is jealous of mary"s closeness with her father and of mary wollstonecraft"s fame: she"s a classic evil stepmother.