2. MARY SHELLEY
BIOGRAPHY
• Mary Shelley was born on 30th of August, in 1797 and died on 1st February,
in 1851.She was an English novelist, a short story writer, a dramatist, an
essayist, a biographer, and a travel writer. She is best known for her Gothic
novel Frankenstein;or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited
and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and
philosopher Percy Shelley. Her father was a political philosopher and her
mother was a philosopher and a feminist.
• After her mother’s death, Mary was raised by her father, who was able to
provide his daughter with a rich, education, encouraging her to his own
anarchist political theories. When Mary was four, her father married a
neighbour, with whom, as her stepmother, Mary came to have a troubled
relationship.
• In 1814, Mary began a romance with one of her father’s political followers,
Percy Shelley, who was already married! Together with Mary’s stepsister,
Mary and Shelley left for France and travelled through Europe. Upon their
return to England, Mary was pregnant with Percy’s child. They married in
late 1816,after the suicide of Percy Shelley’s first wife, Harriet.
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4. FRANKENSTEIN
HOW MARY SHELLEY STARTED THINKING ABOUT
THE STORY
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel that tells the story of
Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a hideous, creature in
an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story
when she was 18 and the first edition of the novel was published in
London on 1st January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared
on the second edition, published in 1823.
Shelley travelled through Europe in 1814. Along the river Rhine in
Germany she stopped in Gernsheim, which is 17 kilometres away from
Frankenstein Castle! There, two centuries before, an alchemist was
engaged in experiments. Later, she travelled in Geneva (Switzerland),
where much of the story takes place. Mary, Percy and Lord Byron decided
to have a competition to see who could write the best horror story. After
thinking for days, Shelley dreamt about a scientist who created life and
was horrified by what he had made, her dream later evolved into the
novel’s story.
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6. STORY SUMMARY
The story starts with captain Robert Walton, who sees a huge man on a sledge.
The captain takes the man on the ship. The man is Victor Frankenstein who chases a
monster.
Frankenstein was born in Geneva and he studied science. He wanted to give
life to dead people. He made a monster with blue eyes and yellow skin.
Frankenstein wants to destroy the monster, but it disappears. He goes back to
Geneva where the monster has killed his little brother, William. Their maid is
blamed for the murder and killed. The monster also kills Elizabeth, Frankenstein’s
wife.
Finally, Frankenstein wants revenge, but at the end of the story he dies. The
captain finds the monster in Victor’s cabin and feels that he’s sorry for what he did.
Now the monster is alone in the world and leaves to face death and peace!
KEYWORDS: maid=καμαριέρα,
monster=τέρας,sledge=έλκηθρο,chase=καταδιώκω,disappear=εξαφανίζομαι,
Murder=φόνος,revenge=εκδίκηση
7. ΟΝΌΜΑΤΑ ΜΑΘΗΤΩΝ ΑΥΤΉΣ
ΤΗΣ ΟΜΆΔΑΣ
Μιλτιάδης Καναβός Α’4
Γιώργος Καναβός Α΄4
Αδάμ Κανάκης Α’4
Βασίλης Καρυπίδης Α’4
Αλέξης Κοντοπάνος Α’4
Γκέραλντ Χαντίλι Α’4
