Whose Book is it anyway?

Byron and Shelley- directly responsible for the writing of the book

-Byron suggests writing ghost stories

-Byron and Shelley discuss the essence of life and soul

Many Characters from the story relate to Shelley

-Victor is a nickname of of Percy Shelley

-Shelley had a sister and mother are named Elizabeth

Frankenstein and Shelley had a similar Childhood

-Privileged and promising Scholars

-Indulging Parents

Both Frankenstein and Shelley had " an early passion to learn 'the secrets of heaven and earth' one may say that in both the drive was inherent

- The difference is that Frankenstein is driven from this path due to an accident.

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The author of the this passage suggests that often times throughout the novel, when Victor states his interests and motivations, it might be Shelley speaking

Shelley and Frankenstein had the same interests. " The compulsion to penetrate the 'secrets' both of the material and immaterial worlds- 'whether it was the outward substance of things, or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my enquiries were directed to the metaphysical or, in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world'"