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Proverb has said that, "One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints." If this is so, then Mary Shelley's Frankenstein deserves no acclaim. As the daughter of radical thinkers William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and the wife of the celebrated poet Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley was intimately acquainted with and heavily influenced by all the ideas of the leading literary figures of her time. As a result, Frankenstein is nothing more than a conglomeration of other's ideas. Some of the works where she obtained her ideas from were John Milton's Paradise Lost where she modelled the "creature" after the character Satan; Caleb Williams by William Godwin where she adopted the theme of perilous knowledge; and the Promethean Legend, where she found her scientist, Frankenstein, who is a modern Prometheus. It is evident therefore, that Mary Shelley derived many of her ideas for Frankenstein from other literary works, and as a result, we should not give her any credit.

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