How beyond a story can go?

How different might the feeling of loneliness be between the women from the 18th century, and the ones from the current society? The consequences of a dull and unhappy life should be very simmilar if not the same for themselves and for the rest of the people who surround them. How do they handle life, deal with care, and face love being in that condition? This is one of the interpretations that it is possible to take out from Frankenstein, especially when reading about its author’s life, Mary Shelley since lots “this monster’s” words are the reflection of his creator’s life.

Love is the main feeling, theme, even the issue that rules each one of people’s life. It can be felt and expressed as freely as wished. Most of the time there are not much reason, but experience, dreams, authenticity, and the willing to say or do what our inner thoughts ask to. So, according to Mary Shelly’s life, what could have been the personal love pattern that she followed when writing Frankenstein? What can be deducted from one of the essays written by Kim A. Woodbridge, devoted to M. Shelley’s different aspects of her life, including as a writer, is that she was very pasionate, and really went into the pursuit of her happiness. “At the age of sixteen Mary ran away to live with the twenty-one year old Percy Shelley, the unhappily married radical heir to a wealthy baronetcy. To Mary, Shelley personified the genius and dedication to human betterment that she had admired her entire life. Although she was cast out of society, even by her father, this inspirational liaison produced her masterpiece, Frankenstein”.
What she did, was an impressive act of bravery in those days. Going away from home to be with a man to get married but everybody who does something like that, it is only because of love. In the case of Mary Shelly, it was love for the man she loved, and love for herself. By this I mean that while being away from home she had the liberty to write and give birth to all of her masterpieces. However, little did she know about the emotional weight that she had to carry, then. Suicides, the trauma that the deaths of her two beloved children produced on her, and finally the fact that Mr. Shelley left her totally moneyless and hopeless. Accoding to the way a woman deals with her feelings, it is undoubtedly that these were the facts which disturbed her and led her to create Frankensktein.
This last point tells us about how she faced the idea of feeling herself helpless. Maybe she never thought about finding herself in those conditions, which finally were her main base to start being the creator of a monster. She started expressing her love in the way it had been expressed to her up until then, which means that, as it happened to her, she gave life to a creature, but then she took out all what could have made him feel happy, such as company and education.

M. Shelley’s experience is very simmilar to what happens nowadays. Although mortality rate in under two year old children were much higher in those times than now because of hygenical and technological reasons , current lost and sometimes unloved women have managed other ways to “kill” their children. These are the mothers of children who, as long as they grow up, they have trouble at school, reject studdying, and very unfortunatelly go into drugs; there is no support for them, most of the time, not because they want their children to be like that, but because they are not that different. If we relate Frankenstein story, we can realize that he did not want to have trouble with people, he didn’t want to threat, either to fright; he wanted to be loved; however, he was made that way. It was not his fault.

Hopefully, this issue’s overview has been changing little by little. There are children who are really loved by their mothers. Even if they have to live against suficient life conditions, and carry out their daily activities within a drowned world, there are mothers who do find what is good enough for their children to emerge and have all the necessary skills such as social, learning, etc in order to face up the world that they want to.

References:
http://www.kimwoodbridge.com/maryshel/life.shtml
http://www.kimwoodbridge.com/maryshel/birth.shtml