Traumatic Events In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

In Mary Shelley’s days of her childhood, youth, and as a young woman, Mary had losses, tragedies, but as well also had discovered new inspirations from her traumatic events that she would later use for her dearly beloved book “Frankenstein” as she got older. Firstly, Mary had already undergone a traumatic event when she was born, so due to that circumstance her Mother dies from the complications of childbirth after a short month. Already, Mary Shelley holds a great guilt that she was the reason her mother died, creating this emotional toll on her. As a child, her father remarried but what was troubling about that was her stepmom didn’t have much fondness for Mary so instead of sending both her and Mary’s sister to school she only sent Mary’s sister; therefore, Mary had to be self-taught, learning to write her name by tracing her name on her Mom’s gravestone, surrounding herself with intellectual poets that her father had suggested for her to do, reading many of the books’ her father had in his library, and learning to write on her own. Later, as she was in her youth, Mary went to live with Acquaintances of her Father’s, William Baxter and his family, resulting in an experience of …show more content…
I do feel like Mary Shelley suffered from severe depression in her life time, so incorporating those feelings into Victor was a way to descriptively describe what he was feeling from her own experience with it. Similarly, The Monster as well suffers from a severe sadness from the mistreatment of Victor. A way for The Monster to release that anger and sadness on Victor was to start a rampage by killing each one of Victor’s loved one, escalating in the destruction of Victor’s