Mary Shelley's Style of Writing
The Idea of Frankenstein
- The idea came to Shelley in a dream where she saw a student using parts of different men to bring it to life as one man.
- The work is considered to be a mixture of science fiction, gothic novel, and having parts from the Romantic movement.
Early Life
Criticism
Characteristics of writing style
- "The birth of Frankenstein and of it's Monster are among the most celebrated events in Literary and Popular history."
- "Although Frankenstein is Undeniably a novel constructed out of the currency of the radical movement, it is also a critique of that system and of the personalities of the men who were it's proponents."
- Mary Shelley had many important influences while growing up:
- Her father, William Godwin, was an important philosopher.
- Her mother,Mary Wollstonecraft, was famous journalist, radical thinker, and a feminist.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley was a major voice in English Romanticism.
- She adds complexity to her writting style by choosing to create 3 different narrators in the story.
- This narrating structure creates an unclear timeline, but it displays qualities of chararcters as well.
- Her style is rich in vocabulary and is highly descriptive especially when describing a landscape.
- The landscapes often mirror the character's feelings.
- She doesn't over use figurative language.