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Really need help with this one
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Can anyone just briefly explain how Lord Byron influenced Mary Shelly and Frankenstein? Its my topic for english I have no idea where to start Sad
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#2
Mary was inlove with lord byron :p xD
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#3
You can look up your book summaries from sparknotes. Give a short summary of the book and discuss in detail about the connection in the body and then conclude.
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Quote:Mary Shelley, aged 18, and her lover (and later husband) Percy Bysshe Shelley, visited Lord Byron at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva in Switzerland. The weather was consistently too cold and dreary that summer to enjoy the outdoor holiday activities they had planned, so the group retired indoors until dawn.
Among other subjects, the conversation turned to galvanism and the feasibility of returning a corpse or assembled body parts to life, and to the experiments of the 18th-century natural philosopher and poet Erasmus Darwin, who was said to have animated dead matter. Sitting around a log fire at Byron's villa, the company also amused themselves by reading German ghost stories, prompting Byron to suggest they each write their own supernatural tale. Shortly afterwards, in a waking dream, Mary Shelley conceived the idea for Frankenstein:
Hope this helps. Here's the link I found the info from.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein
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