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Bailey A. Blaze Mrs. Duffey AP English 12 17 Aug 2015 Dracula and Frankenstein Dracula and Frankenstein are both novels within the category of Fantasy. They are both also written in the Gothic style. The authors of Dracula and Frankenstein each experienced many hardships in their life. Some that may have affected the themes used in their novels, and some continued to affect them after the novels were published. Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley are two authors that shaped the Gothic genre into the deep, dark, and thrilling category it is today. Mary Shelley was born in London, England on August 30, 1797. Her parents were William Godwin, her father, a philosopher and political write and her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, a famed feminist. Mary Shelley never met her namesake due to her dying shortly after her birth (bio.com). She also had an older half-sister named Fanny Imlay, a result of her father s affair. In 1801 things changed, her father married Mary Jane Clairmont who brought two more children to the marriage, and later her father and Ma ry Jane had a son. While Jane, one of Mary s stepsisters, was sent of to school Shelley was never formally educated. Instead she used the resources of her Father s extensive library. It was through her father that Mary met Percy Shelley in 1814. He was a student of her Father s. As time went on Percy took most of his focus away from her father and focused it on her. They ran away together to England with Mary s stepsister Jane.Show MoreRelatedA Comparison of Film Techniques of Two Film Versions of Mary Shelleys Frankenstein1861 Words   |  8 Pagesof Film Techniques of Two Film Versions of Mary Shelleys Frankenstein Mary Shelley wrote her novel Frankenstein when she was just a young girl of nineteen. She wrote it in 1816, when she went on holiday with her friend, Byron. Byron was already a famous poet, and it was him who suggested that whilst they were away, they should both write a ghost story. At the time it was just a way of passing time and having fun for Mary Shelley, but little did she know that her story wouldRead MoreWhere Do Monsters Come From? - The History Of Frankenstein And The Vampyre2381 Words   |  10 PagesHistory of Frankenstein and The Vampyre Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Dr. John Polidori’s The Vampyre were conceived in 1816 on a blustery and rainy evening in Western Europe. That night, they not only created science fiction, but molded horror fiction and gothic fiction a we know them today. Such a frightful summer night, with overly violent storms cascading across the lands with such ferocity. There could almost be no more perfect of a setting for a night of ghostly tales to astonish. Mary GodwinRead MoreFrankensteins Monster: from Misunderstood Creature to Scientific Breakthrough2710 Words   |  11 PagesThe 19th century reader of the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley was treated to a tale of fantastic proportions. A story of a monster that was created from parts of corpses and could be brought to life would have been an extremely scary story. They would not know if the creation of a monster in this way was really a scientific possibility. The 21st century audience however, now knows that this is not scientifically possible. The fear that was struck in the hearts of the 19th century readerRead MoreThe Development Of The Horror Genre Throughout The Years1758 Words   |  8 Pages(Masters, 1). Since then the development of horror can be created to a number of sources: evil folktales, witchcraft, fables, myths, ghost stories, and Grand Guignol melodramas (American Movie Classics Company, 1). Even the most memorable writers like Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, and Robert Louis Stevenson helped this genre be at forefront amongst audiences for decades (AMCC, 1). In the 18th and 19th century, gothic horror began to emerge in fiction and film (John Belton, A Brief History of