People often classify Frankenstein as horror; in fact, Mary Shelley's novel is the first work of true science fiction, as it uses real science (Galvanism, bioelectricity and organ transplant and renewal) as a basis for creating and reanimating the creature. But more than a science experiment, Frankenstein is about child neglect and abandonment, the dangers of obsession, the profiling of those considered "other," unnatural acts, and the true meaning of "humane." The creature does not come into the world with a desire to murder people. Humans teach the creature how to treat others, reacting to his mere appearance, assuming the worst, shooting him, at one point, when he tries to rescue a girl from drowning.
Mary Shelley's life was filled with death. Her mother died when she was just eleven days old. She lived, feeling the burden of having killed her own mother just by coming into the world. She lost children, some from miscarriage, others by stillbirth, and others lived a few days or even months. Early on, her father's party guests, the best and brightest intellectuals and poets, ushered the teenager into an adult world of atheism, free love, and reckless living. An affair with the married poet Percy Shelley ended in scandal when Percy's wife killed herself. Percy's wife's family tried to use Galvanism, electric shock, to re-start her heart. Mary had also read of the scientific experiments of Galvani performed on deceased prison inmates and a dead frog. During a ghost-story contest proposed by George Gordon, Lord Byron, Mary went to her room, fell asleep, and dreamed Chapter Five, the Creation scene. The poets urged her to continue the work. Frankenstein was published when Mary was nineteen years old in 1818.
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