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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The novel brought me to the sadness and the loneliness surroundings of a creature being abandoned by his creator. The narrative and the characters' growth in the book was amazingly strong which it still lingers in my mind and it still kept me in awe of the way the story was written. The name Frankenstein will automatically bring our imagination to a huge green monster, tall, with a rusty old nail stuck in its neck with creepy stitches on the skin or similar to the Herman in The Monster TV show. Well, this month, I had learned that Frankenstein was the name of the obsessed intelligent creator who recreates human with the selected body parts and eventually resulted to become a gothic hideous creature. The story leads me to a huge pool of question of how Mary Shelley arrived at the idea of creating the monstrous world of Victor Frankenstein. She adapted some of her life events, griefs, lost, guilty, romanticism and obsessions. From some of the sources I have read, she seems to