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How would you relate William Godwin to Frankenstein?

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To be honest, I've struggled with this question for a few days now, and my answer is with great difficulty. read more

On top of that, she went off and married the man who claimed to be William Godwin's"intellectual heir", Percy Shelley himself. Yet we can't really point at any part of Frankenstein and go"Aha! This is influenced from Godwin!". read more

Although Godwin has been viewed as a powerful influence on the works of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley, little notice has been taken of his influence on the work of his daughter, Mary Shelley. It has, on the contrary, been popular to attribute Mary's Frankenstein to the influence of her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley. read more

William Godwin William Godwin was born 3 March 1756 in Cambridgeshire, England, and was educated, beginning in 1773, at Hoxton Academy, a liberal Presbyterian college in London. Though he was trained for a career as a dissenting minister, Godwin remained in that profession for less than four years, preaching in Ware, Stowmarket, and Beaconsfield. read more

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