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Mary Shelley (then Mary Godwin) was only a teenager when she visited Lord Byron's home in Switzerland with her boyfriend, poet Percy Shelley. One night while they were there it was a (pardon the cliche) dark and stormy night, and the friends began telling ghost stories. Mary had had a dream about a man who created a monster, and she drew inspiration from that dream. She may have also taken ideas from conversations she had with these friends about galvanism, which is when a current of electricity is applied to muscles and nerves (based on the scientist Galvani's work shocking frogs and making their muscles twitch). At the time, the early 1800s, they were beginning to come upon some technology that would "bring the dead to life" or resuscitate people, like artificial breathing or what we now call CPR.

When Did Mary Shelley Write Frankenstein

Mary Shelley was a part of the romance time and movement which means she believed science and nature where defying each other. She wrote Frankenstein to show that the further science goes the more we push nature to destroy us. Frankenstein was real though. He was a doctor who wished to create life without the balance of nature. He dared to challenge the perfection that is nature. Sadly he died in a blizzard last Mary heard of him. In the book Frankenstein is the doctor who created the monster. Frightened by it's appearance he fled his monster. The monster, though nameless, was upset with the man who created him so he grow mad and murdered Frankenstein's family and close friends. Mary Shelley saw some of this in her dreams and mixed it in with the letters she received from Frankenstein as well.

Mary Shelley says she imagined this story, as she lay in bed one night.

The origin of Frankenstein is almost as mysterious and exciting as the novel itself. It all began back in the summer of 1816 at the famed Villa Diodati on the shores of Lake Geneva, Switzerland, where Mary Shelley spent most of that summer together with her future husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, her stepsister Claire Clairmont, Lord Byron and Dr. John Polidori, Byron's physician. Inspired by a reading of the Fantasmagoriana, a collection of German ghost stories, on June 16 they decided to try their hands on supernatural stories themselves.

The first one to come up with a story was Polidori, who began his now famous tale The Vampyre. Its main protagonist Lord Ruthven was supposedly modeled on Lord Byron. However, Mary Shelley was not that quick in creating her first piece of literature. Initially, she suffered from some kind of writer's block and produced nothing so far until one day she had (or claimed to have) a sort of vision that finally inspired her to write Frankenstein. She described this vision in the preface of the novel:

If you want more detail, Google `The Origin of Frankenstein`.

Because doctor frankenstein who was an alchemist in 1533 or something in Great Britian and This was when alchemy is illegal and later Shelley wrote a book about him that another writer gave her the advice to twist it to a creature making animal

It was a contest between friends to see who could write the scariest book.

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Megan Bram Stoker was 4 years old when Mary Shelly died. He was not in part of the contest because he wasn't even alive when she wrote the book.

There was a friendly competiton going on between her, Bram Stoker and several other friends to see who could write the scariest story.

Um... cause in them days weren t nothin else for them educated type peoples to do with theysels.

She decided to write it for the LULZ

cause she was a sopped up stoner that got bored,

seriously sweetie, do your own homework.