Book Review of Frankenstein by Marry Shelly
FULL TITLE: Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus
AUTHOR: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
TYPE OF WORK: Novel
GENRE: Gothic science fiction, Gothic Horror, Gothic Romance
LANGUAGE: English
TIME AND PLACE WRITTEN: Switzerland, 1816, and London, 1816–1817
SETTING (TIME): Eighteenth century
SETTING (PLACE): Geneva, the Swiss Alps, Ingolstadt, England and Scotland, the northern ice
DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION: January 1, 1818
OTHER PUBLISHED EDITIONS: 1823 and 1831
PUBLISHER: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones This is the cover of the Novel. It shows the horrific monster created by Victor Frankenstein. The writer explains the monster’s eyes as ‘pale yellow eyes’. The said phrase is used as a symbol in the novel by the writer to explain the ugly and terrifying physical look of the monster which makes people repudiate him due to fear of his pale yellow eyes.
Marry Shelley was an English novelist, born on august 30, 1797 in Somers Town, London. She was the second child of the famous Philosopher, Journalist and Writer William Godwin. She claimed that her favourite pastime was the ‘formation of castles in the air’ and it was one such waking dream that led to her most famous creation. In 1814, Mary first met Percy Bysshe Shelley who often visited her father. Later on they were married. After her husband’s death, she came back to England in 1823 where she continued to live as a professional writer until her death in 1851.
The story of Frankenstein came to life when Mary Shelley once along with her husband, stayed at shore of Lake Geneva at the house of Lord Byron. One night, Lord Byron dared everyone to make up ghost stories and that was the night when Mary’s dreams gave birth to the character of Frankenstein. She, encouraged by her husband, began working on it and formed the first modern work of literature in science fiction genre. In his book, Billion Year Spree, Brian Aldiss claims ‘Frankenstein represents the first seminal work to which the
AUTHOR: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
TYPE OF WORK: Novel
GENRE: Gothic science fiction, Gothic Horror, Gothic Romance
LANGUAGE: English
TIME AND PLACE WRITTEN: Switzerland, 1816, and London, 1816–1817
SETTING (TIME): Eighteenth century
SETTING (PLACE): Geneva, the Swiss Alps, Ingolstadt, England and Scotland, the northern ice
DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION: January 1, 1818
OTHER PUBLISHED EDITIONS: 1823 and 1831
PUBLISHER: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones This is the cover of the Novel. It shows the horrific monster created by Victor Frankenstein. The writer explains the monster’s eyes as ‘pale yellow eyes’. The said phrase is used as a symbol in the novel by the writer to explain the ugly and terrifying physical look of the monster which makes people repudiate him due to fear of his pale yellow eyes.
Marry Shelley was an English novelist, born on august 30, 1797 in Somers Town, London. She was the second child of the famous Philosopher, Journalist and Writer William Godwin. She claimed that her favourite pastime was the ‘formation of castles in the air’ and it was one such waking dream that led to her most famous creation. In 1814, Mary first met Percy Bysshe Shelley who often visited her father. Later on they were married. After her husband’s death, she came back to England in 1823 where she continued to live as a professional writer until her death in 1851.
The story of Frankenstein came to life when Mary Shelley once along with her husband, stayed at shore of Lake Geneva at the house of Lord Byron. One night, Lord Byron dared everyone to make up ghost stories and that was the night when Mary’s dreams gave birth to the character of Frankenstein. She, encouraged by her husband, began working on it and formed the first modern work of literature in science fiction genre. In his book, Billion Year Spree, Brian Aldiss claims ‘Frankenstein represents the first seminal work to which the