Frankenstein context - created from Mind Map

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Shelley was intelligent, with her own views on various social and political views

Tragedy followed her throughout her life

On holiday, Lord Byron proposed that each of them wrote their own ghost story to amuse and frighten each other.

French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose ideas inspured French Revoluntaries, argued that all people are born innocent and good by natue. He believed taht society corrupted people. Shelley seems to hold a similar view.

Shelley wanted to write a story "whcih would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature and awaken a thrilling horror"

She dreamed of a man creating a "hideous phantasm of a man"