Mary Shelley's life, personal affirmations, friends, and family all contributed greatly to her personality and beliefs, which also transcended onto her writing in Frankenstein. In Anne Mellor's work, "Approaches to Teaching Shelley's Frankenstein," published in 1990, Mellor states: Above all, Mary Shelley associated her modern Prometheus with Percy Shelley, who had already announced his desire to compose an epic rebuttal to Aeschylus" Prometheus Bound when he reread the play in 1816, although he did not begin writing Prometheus Unbound until September 1818, after Franken...

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