Frankenstein: Reflects Of Mary Shelley's Life

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(Ellis 125). In her book however, the relationship between parent and child becomes creator and creation. "I felt what the duties of a creator towards his creature were, and that I ought to render him happy before I complained of his wickedness" (Shelley 70). One can now see how the characters from the novel reflect Shelley's own life.
The style in which Shelley wrote is shown in the novel. Since she grew up under the influence of a feminist mother and a philosophical father, she writes with a distict style. "The motif of the Doppelganger was certainly in Mary's mind during the writing..." (Levine 15). Explain Doppelganger (lit. ex.) "...as it was a part of the Gothic tradition in which she wrote..." (Levine 15). Throughout the novel, one sees many examples of Gothic scenes and characters. Shelley states in Frankenstein:
A flash of lightning illuminated the object, oand discovered its shape plainly to me; its gigantic stature, and the deformity of its aspect, more ...

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