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Because of Mary's popular novel and some 46 movies made about "The monster", the story has become a modern ____ 3 ____.
Today the spirit of Mary Shelley's original story has greatly changed.
But it is that basic theme of Man ____ 4 _____ God's work which marks it out as the first true work of science fiction and it is considered a ____ 5 _____ of writing.
The name of the ____ 6 ____ Victor Frankenstein, is used today to describe an ____ 7 ____use of science and technology and everyone knows that a Frankenstein Movie is a certain type of horror film.
Mary Shelley was born in London on August 30th 1797. She never knew her famous feminist mother, Mary ____ 8 ____ . Mary Wollstonecraft died from a fever only 10 days after giving birth to Mary Shelley.
Mary never received any ____ 9 ____ education. She learned to read her father, and his wife, and followed her father's advice that the proper way to study was to read two or three books at the same time. Luckily, she had access to her father's excellent ____ 10 ____ , and to the political, philosophical, scientific, or literary conversations that he conducted with famous visitors
In 1813, at age sixteen, Mary ____ 11 ____ to France with the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, for which Mary's father temporarily disowned her.
In 1816, the Shelleys moved to the shores of Lake Geneva, Switzerland. While they lived there, they formed a ____ 12 ____ circle that included George Gordon, Lord Byron.
The group regularly held all-night discussions on scientific and ____ 13 ____ topics.
After one of these conversations, Byron suggested a friendly "ghost story" ____ 14 ____. Mary had a dream that became the ____ 15 ____ for Frankenstein her first novel.
Thus the story was born that is the basis of Frankenstein movies which focused on the ____ 16 ____ thrill of creating life out of dead body parts.
Mary's young life was filled with ____ 17 ____and loss. Of the four children Mary had with Percy Shelley, only one lived beyond the age of three. In July 1821 Shelley drowned in a boating accident in the Gulf of Spezia, at the age of twenty-nine.