
The extraordinary story of how the 19-year-old Mary Shelley created Frankenstein, one of the world's most terrifying monsters. Daughter of Mary Woolstencraft, wife of Percy Byshe Shelley and close friend to Lord Byron, Mary Shelley's life was every bit as extraordinary as her most famous work. Dramatising the adventures, love affairs and tragedies of her young life, the film shows how her monstrous creation reflected her own extraordinary experiences. In life, as in literature, Mary Shelley's famous monster, Frankenstein, overshadows its creator. The story of Frankenstein has become a modern myth, one which has developed a life of its own, mutating with every re-telling. It is frequently forgotten that the creature now thought of as Frankenstein -- Boris Karloff's dumb, inarticulate beast -- is massively removed from the sophisticated, sensitive creation of Mary Shelley, perfect in all but appearance. Using Mary's own words and accounts from the people who knew her, and dramatic reconstructions of events in Mary's life and from her famous novel, Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster tells the true story of Frankenstein's monster and the remarkable woman who created him. It reveals how the turbulent events in Mary's emotional life - the death of her mother in childbirth, the suicide of her sister and the drowning of her husband -- fed the depictions of rage and loneliness that Frankenstein's creation experiences. It demonstrates how the book -- like Frankenstein's monster -- is <b>...</b>
Frankenstein
Mary
Shelley
Literature
Frankenstein's Monster
Biography
Roses
Of
Time