1. Sutton Hoo
After all of the children Shelley birthed, she was extremely lucky not to have died from complications as her mother did (2). ... During this era, children died young due to diseases and birthing complications; Before she wrote her novel, Shelley had three children who each died at an early age or prematurely, which is similar to the novel since the savage's first victims are children. ... The second was a young woman named Justine Moritz who represents Shelley's daughter Clara, who died at the age of one (Franklin 3). ... Shelley's mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, died on August 9...
The summer was nearly as bad; diseases flourished in these harsh conditions. ... On looking at the chap next to me I felt sick, for green stuff was oozing from the side of his mouth as he died." ... Some were killed outright; others would take days to die from their horrific injuries, lying alone and helpless in the mud. Their pitiful cries as they slowly died were deeply distressing to their comrades back in the trenches who could do nothing to help them. ... They loathed the old men They desired that profiteers should die by poison gas. ...
"Of the dying year, to which this closing night will be the dome of a vast sepulchre vaulted with all thy congregated might.... He says "As summer winds that creep from flower to flower", a lonely spirit, moving on. ... Eventually darkness starts to fall in the poem, "Like darkness to a dying flame!...
During a sea voyage Bethia's father dies, so now they are left without a father and a teacher. ... They strive at school and then Caleb and Joel move on to Harvard, where they both die around graduation time. ... During the summer a whale washes up onto the beach near the settlement. ...