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I. Introduction A. With pregnancy comes happiness. With pregnant comes joy and bliss. But this is not everything. With pregnancy comes responsibility, worry, and most of all uncertainty. Mary Shelley was pregnant during the time that this book was first written. Her mind would have been filled with stress and worry. Frankenstein is a journal of her mind during the time of her pregnancy.

This is significant because she is the first author to write a book during her pregnancy.

II. Mary Shelley is afraid of giving birth and the responsibility A. Kim A. Woodbridge (http://www.kimwoodbridge.com/maryshel/birth.shtml) 1. Mary Shelley already had 2 pregnancies and a death of a child 2. Evidence 2 with critic B. Mary Shelley is scared of death of a child 1. She gave birth to a premature child who died. (http://www.carondelet.pvt.k12.ca.us/frankenstein/MaryShelley/Second%20Page%20%28mary%20Shelly%29.htm) (http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/mshelley/bio.html) 2. A death of a child is mental hard for a mother. A. Women have died giving birth 1. Her mother was a German and had died on giving her birth. The infant had been placed with these good people to nurse: they were better off then. (674) 2. But monster is not only one B. She was afraid of what might happen to her child if something happened to her 1. I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form (1437) III. The creation of Frankenstein is like birth. A. The creation needs amniotic fluid 1. This is like a child who is inside the mother’s stomach B. The creation needs electricity 1. This is like the natural electricity we have in out bodies C. The needles 1. They are like the umbilical cords

IV. Point Three A. In the end, Mary Shelley wants to make sure that her child is not abandoned. If a child is abandoned, he will turn out to be like Frankenstein.