>he's literally me
Percy wrote it.
>>24942754>Percywho?
>>24942754Whenever I see a book by a female author I always ask myself which male relative or lover actually wrote this.
>>24942754Prove it
>>24942778What other things has Mary written? Does it make sense for someone with zero novel experience to crank out a masterpiece on her very first try? Does it make sense for someone to write a wildly successful novel and then immediately retire without ever writing a second book? If so, why? Did she run out of ideas? It just doesnt make sense.
>>24942778She's a woman. I need no other proof.
>>24942799she explains this in the introduction to the 1831 version
>>24942850I think I read that. She said she just wanted to see if she could. Yeah. That's a shitty non-answer. You dont discover you're good at something and immediately abandon it. >Hmm, I think today I will practice medicine. >congratulations, doctor. The heart transplant was a success. >well that was fun. Back to being a housewife. I dont buy it.
>>24942859Why would percy let the book be authored by Mary if it were true that she didn't write it? Whats the motive here?
If Rembrandt's wife, who had zero painting experience, suddenly picked up a brush and painted a masterpiece that just so happened to contain several stylistic influences reflective of Rambrandt's work, people would scratch their chins and find it suspicious. But if it's a novel nobody finds it strange at all.
>>24942869Probably the same reason King wrote under Richard Bachman.
>>24942859'It is not singular that, as the daughter of two persons of distinguished literary celebrity, I should very early in life have thought of writing. As a child I scribbled; and my favourite pastime, during the hours given me for recreation, was to "write stories."'
>>24942778This isn't an exhaustive list but off of the top of my head:1) The themes of the book are in line with what Percy was exploring at the time (you can't demonstrate this with Mary).2) The book references material Percy had read an interacted with (not Mary).3) The party which spawned Frankenstein also spawned The Vampyre which Byron had outlined and then given to Polidori to work out (there's clear evidence that the established writers were mentoring and, in Percy's case, supervising the work that came out of said gathering).4) Like Byron, Percy hid his involvement with Frankenstein AND avoided association--this is because Polidori ran into a lot of problems when the publisher associated Byron with the manuscript5) Even hinting at Percy's involvement has led to ostracization due to REEEEEing feminists who want Mary to be a #GirlBoss 6) Despite that last point multiple scholars have examined the work and made the case that Percy contributed multiple passages verbatim. Note this is not to even mention his editorial role.So yeah. Percy was largely responsible for Frankenstein and pretending Mary was a genius that came out of nowhere and never wrote anything of note again is nonsense.
>>24942869He had greater motivation than Byron handing over The Vampyre to Polidori. Mary was a teenager running around Europe with a married man and hanging out with a notorious bad boy. When Percy dumped his wife for Mary she killed herself.
>>24942751Mary wrote it because it is stylistically similar to teen dramas, just like other female "classics." Characters are emotional and irrational, with a woe is me cloud on their heads which makes it seem evil to treat them with contempt. That's how women write. The similarities to PB are irrelevant because obviously his wife who loved his cuck ass would emulate him. Maybe he had notes and edits, but at its core it's her story.
Percy wrote it!>how do you know?Because it's not like anything else Mary ever wrote!>have you ever read anything else written by Mary?Well, no, but... surely that doesn't matter...
Foids, parasocial by nature, have so few group accomplishments they have a meltie when they find out Mary's actual path to fame was being an established poet's side-piece, lol.
>>24943264Both of her parents were famous
>>24942754It was originally published anonymously but the dedication was to Mary's father
>>24943467That's probably why she ended up bouncing all over Europe with a married man, lol.
>It was originally published anonymously but the dedication was to Mary's father
>>24943474Both her parents would see nothing wrong with that. Her mother died when she was born but her father was an anarchist and brought her up quite unconventionally
>>24943619Her father disowned her for a period when she eloped with Shelley, dumbass.
>>24943652>for a period
>>24943654>her parents would see nothing wrong with thatYou were wrong on the internet, lol.
>>24943146>Novel about man having child without female intermediary>novel about man leaving man to find woman and have kids right after byron left percy to be with his bae>Mary spends rest of career writing novels paraphrasing gossip and events from her own life like all other foid authorsIts was written by a man. A (very) gay man
>>24943654They never fully reconciled.
None of the replies in this thread are about the book, instead the replies consist of gossip about the author. Makes you ponder if anyone in this thread has actually read Frankenstein (Spoiler alert: they have not, but they have read wikipedia page about it). It's an issue that plagues Frankenstein - everybody thinks he has the right to discuss the book, becouse they have seen some adaptation of it and becouse the Monster has been referenced so many times, but they never realise that the pop-culture Monster is nothing like the book Monster.To actually be the single person who will react to OP.>he's literally me1) He's literally any human. For we can imagine that just like Frankenstein has abandoned his Monster after he created it and realized what he has done, so too God has abandoned humanity. And just like the Monster humanity is monster who yearns for love from his creator, but receives only rejection.2) The psychology in Frankenstein is amazing, like the character development of Monster perfectly fits human development and identity formation, even though it completely predates the scientific field of psychology and any of the theories. The monster gets stuck in 'negativity loop' and is psychologically/socially/emotionally deprived - which leads to behavioral/psychological issues (just like in real life - but this was discovered in like 1950s becouse of increased criminality of children who were forced to spend most of their early life in nursery away from parents) Fuck /lit/, go read. You are just like redditors, obsessed with identity shit when it's completely irrelevant to the contents of the book.
>>24943652That must be why Percy dedicated his anonymously published novel to him
>>24944546Shut up fag
>>24944581I am not the one gossiping like woman, underage gaylord. Go read a book.
>>24944546The monster years for love from his creator but also love from literally anyone. He is an outcast from humanity without a friend and finally asks his creator to make him a wife which his creator aborts
>>24944586Reading is just a boring side quest to getting laid, faglord.
>>24944606the cool part? Similarly to how Frankenstein does not consider if the Monster wants to be awaken to life, so too the Monster does not consider that when he asks Frankenstein for female counterpart, the Monster does not even consider if the She-monster would want to love him. Both father and son behave selfishly and disregard others.
>>24942859You can write a book without publishing it, you know. Most authors write several books before ever publishing one.
>>24944688The monster's issue is a reference toward Adam in Paradise Lost, a quite actually included at the beginning of the first edition, wherein Adam tells God in his defense that he never asked to be created
>>24944567>now that my wife killed herself and we're actually married your dad doesn't hate us as much >let's dedicate this novel I mostly wrote to him to show my positive influence on you and get back into his willMakes sense.
>>24945341No one even knew it was by Mary. Percy wrote the preface on why it should be read, and people assumed it was his for years. I don't think it would have sold very well if her name was attached, although she ultimately became a novelist.
>>24942859>implying writing a good book is as hard as heart surgery
>>24942859She didn't abandon writing, bro. She continued to publish even after Percy died
>>24945358>>24942992
>>24945463We have many sections of the original draft in her writing prior to Percy's editing, pic related for some example. The style is a lot simpler but the structure and characterization remain unchanged. Actually she herself changed the most on that in her revisions after Percy's death
>>24945504>Percy's editing
>>24945511>I, uh, have never...seen a vagina...
>>24945517You're not missing much.
>>24945504>We have many sections of the original draftNo "we" don't. The original draft is lost, retard.
