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Frankenstein
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In Mary Shelley's ''Frankenstein'' Is the Monster good or evil? Mary Shelley started to write "Frankenstein" in 1816 when the idea to write it came to mind when her husband Lord Byron, Polidori and herself were reading ghost stories on a rainy day, Lord Byron, was the one who said 'We will each write a story'. They all thought of one except Mary. She wanted to make one which would "dread the reader to look round", and to "curdle the blood and quicken the beatings of the heart". She was asked and asked if she'd thought of a story, but the answer was always negative. When Shelley went to bed one night she had a terrible nightmare of a 'Pale student and a 'Hideous phantasm' and saw someone working on something with 'Signs of life'. This nightmare gave her a story, one that would make the readers blood curdle, it...
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