Mary Shelley had a dark childhood and a abnormal life. This had a large influence on how she wrote Frankenstein. In Frankenstein, her personal life played a significant roll on the gothic appeal of the book. The people that influenced her book the most was her father, William Godwin, her Mother, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Her Husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley and her little brother William Godwin. Mary Shelley’s father William Godwin was a philosopher and …showed first 75 words of 1922 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1922 total…is almost like reading about the life of Mary Shelley. Mary was a type of writer that would take events in her life and put them into the stories she was writing. Only a Mary would have a life that was so bad that she could create a great novel from it. Frankenstein was one of the greatest books ever written but the author had to suffer a lot in order to create that book.