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In the author’s introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley writes, “O! if I could only contrive [a story] which would frighten my reader as I myself had been frightened that night!” Do you think that she has been successful?
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Frankenstein was originally an idea for a ‘ghost’ story that Mary Shelley had conceived, whilst on holiday in Switzerland. It is through her introduction to the novel in 1831, that Shelley confesses that at first she had felt a ‘blank incapability of invention’ and further explains, that invention ‘does not consist in creating out of void, but of chaos’. There is an important clue in this statement, if we are to examine the real terrors that are revealed in Frankenstein. It is the different
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