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PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY IS VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN
Of all the Romantic poets the most likely source of Mary Shelley’s material is that of the life and work of her husband, Percy Shelley, he did in fact write the original preface to the 1818 edition. Many of the ideas and themes dealt with in ‘Frankenstein’ are similar to those that concerned Shelley.
Percy Shelley is probably one of the most mythopoeic figures in literary history. ... If Mary Shelley can be said to have drawn on the metaphors of the French Revolution to show the causes for the alienating effects of totalitarian theories on society, she definitely had enough material through her life with Shelley to show the causes of moral, spiritual and personal isolation.
The similarities between Victor Frankenstein and Percy Shelley are too numerous to be dismissed as coincidence. At the age of ten, Percy was sent to Syon House Academy both for academic reasons and to attempt to discipline his already wild character.
Approximate Word count = 780
Approximate Pages = 3.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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