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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is frequently called the world’s first science fiction novel. Films like Edward Scissorhands or Avengers are adaptations of Frankenstein in disguise.  
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is one of the most famous horror novels ever. She published it in 1818 and, since then, hundreds of film adaptations of it have been made. The novel’s success lies in the fact that it poses philosophical questions that continue unresolved today. Mary Shelley created this novel in the Romantic spirit of her time and added gothic and horror elements to create a spooky story that warns us about the dangers of an irresponsible use of science and technology.  

Mary Shelley was born in 1797 in London. Her parents were William Godwin, a philosopher, and Mary Wollstonecraft, a feminist writer, who died soon after giving birth to Mary Shelley. Mary Shelley received a great education, not common for women at that time. While other girls’ education consisted in learning to be good wives and mothers, Mary Shelley read a lot of books of philosophy and politics and literature. She was only 19 years old when she wrote Frankestein, a novel about a scientist who gives life to a creature and then cruelly rejects it, causing the creature become brutal as it tries to make friends.

Mary Shelley’s idea for her most famous novel came while she was spending some days in Geneva (Switzerland) with her husband, the poet Percy Shelley, their friend Lord Byron, and other famous authors. During those days, the weather was very bad, and it rained almost every day, so the group of friends had to stay indoors most of the time. They were reading horror stories when Lord Byron suggested having a horror story contest. Everyone wrote their story and read it to the rest, but Mary could not think of one. One night, Mary had a fantastic dream while she was sleeping. As soon as she woke up, she wrote it down and read it to her friends. They all felt amazed. It was brilliant. Percy Shelley encouraged Mary Shelley to make it longer and create a novel.  The novel was published as Frankenstein two years later, and it became more successful than any of the other writings produced that summer.  
Since then, Frankenstein has been present in the popular culture worldwide and has influenced many of the science fiction films that we know today, such as Edward Scissorhands, about an artificially created human-like creature whose scissor-hands provoke the scorn of people, or Avengers: Age of Ultron, with the figure of a mad scientist who achieves something god-like but ends up creating something terrible. (10/04/2022) 
Adapted from:  
https://junkee.com/the-blockbuster-films-you-didnt-realise-owe-everything-to-mary-shelleys-frankenstein/56548   (10/04/2022) 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley (10/04/2022) 
https://historia.nationalgeographic.com.es/a/tormento-literario-mary-shelley_15577 (10/04/2022) 
 
1- Why does Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein continue to be so popular today? 
2- Who were Mary Shelley’s parents? 
3- What type of education received Mary Shelley? 
4- What is Frankenstein about? 
5- Why did Mary Shelley decide to write Frankenstein? 
6- When did Mary Shelley’s inspiration to write Frankenstein come? 
7- What do the films Edward Scissorhands and Avengers: Age of Ultron have in common with Frankenstein?