Frankenstein玛丽雪莱的创作背景.ppt

Guilt Anxieties Feminist The worry for science and technology The romantic promethean? Lacking faith in Godwins theory * * * * * * Portrait of Mary Shelley Mary Shelley, the author of the legendary Frankenstein, was no commonplace nineteen-year-old teenager. In a matter of way, she was a literary novice in her own respect, right from childhood. Being the daughter to the thinker, novelist and publisher William Godwin and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, she basked amongst literary elite right from her early days. Whilst girls of her age attended to ball frocks and hair-do’s she was more occupied with contemporary Gothic novels; Paradise Lost by Milton, Paradise Regained, Areopagetica, Lycidas and Comus. On the other end, Shelly digested the works of her poet-husband Pryce Shelley, Byron, Wordsworth, and Coleridge and while writing down the notorious Frankenstein, she was going through Gulliver’s Travels by Swift. To some degree, Frankenstein was more of a girl’s wonder that owed to childhood feasts on dark and peculiar fantasies. How was Frankenstein Born It started one stormy night at the residence of Lord Byron where a group of contemporary literati were assembled. Mary Shelly was also visiting, accompanied by her future husband Percy Shelley. To pass the stormy days and nights, they decided they would have a competition to see who could write the best horror story. It was one such night, Mary Shelly saw her monster’s first silhouette in dream. Shelley dreamt about a scientist who created life and was horrified by what she had made. Then Frankenstein was written. PS: ?Ellen Moers was one of the first to claim that Shelleys loss of a baby was a crucial influence on the writing of?Frankenstein. The influence of her parents Mary Shelley (1797-1851) was destined to become one of the most prominent figures in English literature. Both her parents were revolutionaries and writers: Her father William Godwin (1756-1836) wa