Mary Shelley clearly had Percy ( husband ) on her mind when she wrote Frankenstein. Percy influenced Mary in many way, the death of their son in William in 1819 helped him to write some of his greatest poetry:"Stanzas" Written in Dejection near Naples. In which he poor his emotion out of the death of his son. In one section of the poem he say es "I could lie down like a tired child, and weep away the life of care.In that ex cert i think was trying to let his audience not only read how he felt, but share some of his most intimate feelings that a farther could have.
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