Psychological Origins Of Frank

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soon gave birth to a daughter, Clara, who died two weeks later.

Mary threw Jane out of her home. Jane, who had changed her name to Claire and had begun to pursue Lord Byron, invited Percy and Mary to accompany her and Byron to Switzerland. There, the four spent the coldest summer of the century engaging in intense conversation, reading ghost stories, and other various activities. It was there in Switzerland on June 15 that Mary conceived of the idea of Frankenstein.

Six months before writing Frankenstein, Mary had given birth a second time to a baby boy that she named William. She wrote her novel during her third pregnancy at the age of only nineteen. Her deepest subconscious fears about the death of her first daughter were unleashed. "What if my child is born deformed, a freak, a hideous thing? Will I wish it dead again (as Frankenstein wishes for his monster)? Could I kill it? Could it kill me (as I killed my mother)?"

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