Mary Shelley is Born
30 Aug 1797
Mary Shelley was born on August 30th, 1797. She was the daugher of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin and is widely known as the author of Frankenstein, which hugely contributed to the development of the science-fiction genre. She was a Romantic novelist, and some of her other works include The Last Man, Falkner, Valperga, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, and Lodore. She also married Percy Shelley who was a poet, and she also spent her life publishing Percy Shelley's works after his passing. She also had a son by the name of Percy Florence Shelley, who she spent time educating. Frankenstein itself has themes in regards to the very theme of what makes us human. While the creature is not human, it desires one thing that many other humans also desire: connection. On top of that, the creature was abandoned by it's own creator which adds to the tragic backstory that leads to the creature's desire of wanting connection.
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