Analysis Of Mary Shelley s Frankenstein - 1028 Words

Frankenstein thinks that everything is alright now, but Elizabeth has a premonition that the monster will return, and she warns her fiancà © that she fears some harm is going to befall him. At the same time, during the entire village’s celebration, the father of the dead girl carries her lifeless body though the streets for all to see. The shock crowd stops its celebration, stunned and outraged over the death of Maria, and they demand justice from The Burgomaster (mayor) and local police. By nightfall, the angry mob has organized into torch carrying search parties to find the murderer. Frankenstein is determined to destroy the creature, and leads one of several groups looking for the monster, up the mountainous terrain. Frankenstein gets†¦show more content†¦Within two years she had published the novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). Shelley came from well-to-do family, highly educated, and liberal background. She was married to poet and philosopher Percy Shelley, and during a bleak summer of 1816, â€Å"the couple famously spent a summer with Lord Byron, John William Polidori, and Claire Clairmont near Geneva, Switzerland† (Wikipedia). Because the weather was rather confining, they remained inside, and decided to tell each other ghost stories to pass the time away. What manifested that faithful night became two legendry tales of horror and science gone wrong, as mentioned in Guy Haley’s book Sci-Fi Chronicles, â€Å"Polidori produced a short story, The Vampyre, which was more influential initially and provided the impetus for the creation of the modern vampire myth, but it was the 19-year-old Mary who produced a novel that would come to be regarded as the fir st work of science fictionâ€Å" (Haley 19). Mary Shelley often wrote her books on biographical, historical, romantic, and gothic themes. Another noteworthy book by Shelley is a science fiction apocalyptic novel The Last Man published in 1826. â€Å"The book tells of a future world that has been ravaged by a plague. The novel was harshly reviewed at the time, and was virtually unknown