Why Did Mary Shelly Write Frankenstein?

• Frankenstein was a way for Mary Shelly to unconsciously vent about the emotional pain that she especially felt with Percy's actions in their relationship.

1. Mary Shelly never knew her mother because she died 11 days after she was born
2. Her father remarried when she was 4 1/2. Mary Shelly felt as if her new stepmother was getting in between Mary and her father.
3. Percy was married to a woman named Harriet at the same time he fell in love with Mary Shelly, which caused Mary to later feel very guilty for taking away Harriet's husband.
4. Her father did not approve of Mary and Percy's relationship
5. Mary Shelly gave birth to a baby girl, but it died two weeks later. Percy had said he was disappointed that it was a girl.