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Frankenstein

The novel Frankenstein was written in by Mary Shelley. She came up with the story in 1817 whilst on holiday with her husband Percy Shelly a great poet, Lord Byon another famous poet. It was Byon who suggested that they each write a horror story of some kind. Mary Shelley went to bed that night without knowing of what to write. That night she must have had a pretty terrible night mare as she dreamt up the whole story line. The novel was first published in 1818. In my essay I intend to write about how Shelly has terrified and shocked audiences for nearly 200 years.
Merry Shelley uses effective descriptive language to horrify her audience. This is apparent when she describes the monster and its creator in chapter 5. Shelley’s description of Frankenstein monster provokes fear and revulsion in the reader because the discription is unusual and quite disgusting. You can see this when Shelley uses the phrase “watery eyes that.... “, This creates a very powerful......

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