Why did Mary Shelley write Frankenstein?

Question

What were her reasons?

Her beliefs?

Did anything in her life significant happen?

Anything in her life make her write Frankenstein?

thanks

Answer 1

A contest with her friends to see who could write the best scary story.  The weather was bad, it was summer in Switzerland, everyone was bored, everyone had been reading a book that gave them the initial idea, maybe some people had a few too many shots or Whiskey... lol.  The novel was inspired by the Romantic movement and served as a warning about the Industrial Revolution.  

Answer 2

Shelley was on extended holiday w/her new husband & literary friends, in Switzerland. They challenged each other to each write a scary story. Mary wrote the basis for Frankenstein. She later developed the story more fully. It's a wonderful read, available from B&N for only a few bucks. The story stands as a cautionary tale against the marvels of the (then new) age of scientific discovery.  

Answer 3

Some sources say she saw it in a dream.

Answer 4

To show people that prejudice is bad

Answer 5

I heard that it was a contest amongst friends and family as to who could write the scariest tale.  ^..^

Answer 6

I think it was the two couples on retreat with friends - and they all thought up ghost stories to scare each other

She and her bud - and the other gentleman was Lord Byron, I believe and his date

can't remember the name of the movie - but it showed how they wrote their stories and misused drugs

Answer 7

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) is best known for her novel "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" (1818), which has transcended the Gothic and horror genres and is now recognized as a work of philosophical and psychological resonance. In addition to "Frankenstein", Shelley's literary works include several novels that were mildly successful in their time but are little known today and an edition of poetry by her husband, the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, which she issued with notes that are now regarded as indispensable. Her reputation rests, however, on what she once called her "hideous progeny," "Frankenstein".

http://www.answers.com/topic/mary-shelle...

A Biographical Sketch of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851)

http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian...

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Frankenstein Resources:

http://home-1.worldonline.nl/~hamberg/

http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/mshelle...

Answer 8

she was Frankenstein's wife