Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein brilliantly. A book that has been told countless times, a story that almost all children heard growing up, almost becoming an American tradition. Various aspects of the story, albeit fictional, were reflections of Mary Shelley's personal life. Shelley uses tragic and shocking events to develop her characters. The symbolism he uses is that of what is happening in the world at all times, mirror images of our real society. Shelley's writing was strange for its time. Mary Shelley was the daughter of famous authors. Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the first feminists to mirror her female characters in some way. Growing up in Europe it was natural to base the book on a place he knows. Frankenstein was born literally from Shelley's mind as he came in a dream. After the dream he had to describe the horror he felt in that nightmare. The idea to write the story came to her from another writer, Lord Byron. Mary Shelley had all the ingredients to be an incredible writer, her father, mother and husband were famous writers. Yep...