Earlier in the week we discussed Frankenstein in class and how Shelley relates to her character Robert Walton based on the letters he wrote to his sister. What I found was that Shelley incorporated aspects of her life into Walton's stories and insights. When Walton would began to describe his adventurous experiences, he compared them to that of a child's: "with the joy a child feels when he embarks in a little boat...on an expedition of discovery up his native river". This relates to Shelley's life in that her children would all pass away at a young age and she might have reflected her fantasies of a child's playfulness into her book. Also, she had an expedition of discovery herself when she began to read her mother's books and decided to become a writer herself. Walton's letters also revealed a sense of loneliness when he would tell his sister of his longing to have someone to talk to and it could be possible that Shelley herself felt lonely and found writing to be her way of expressing herself.
How does Shelley incorporate aspects of her life into this weeks reading?
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