what event brought about the book Frankenstein?

Question

we know who wrote the book, but what was going on at the time to have her write the book

the girl who talke about the weather was very close to what i was thinking, know anything about that weather?

sadly no one knew what i was hinting at...
the main reason why she wrote the book was due to the fact that during the summer while away with friends and lover, the weather went freakish and turned bitter cold, forcing them inside... the reason for the weather was a far away valcano that had erupted causing mass global weather changes.
see something was happening

Answer 1

In the summer of 1816, nineteen-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and her lover, the poet Percy Shelley (whom she married later that year), visited the poet Lord Byron at his villa beside Lake Geneva in Switzerland. Stormy weather frequently forced them indoors, where they and Byron's other guests sometimes read from a volume of ghost stories. One evening, Byron challenged his guests to each write one themselves. Mary's story, inspired by a dream, became Frankenstein.

Answer 2

The simple answer is that the film won't do. There are a number of differences as listed in the wikipedia answer above. Plus, some of the wikipedia entry is incorrect (in relation to Justine and creating a bride for the monster). It's a good book. If you have time to watch the film you would probably be better starting to read the book instead.

Answer 3

After accepting a challenge from Byron and Shelley to write a horror story, Mary Shelley had a dream one night about a scientific experiment gone horribly wrong, and woke up the next morning with the plot of Frankenstein. Apparently she was influenced by Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Rime of Ancient Mariner"

Answer 4

Actually going back during the days of the vikings? or sometime around there.. between 1200 and 1800, there was a mini ice age in europe. Because of this, people tended not to venture outside. One group of people had a contest to see who could write the scariest book, and a female, i dont remmebr her name, came up with the first variation of frankenstein. Throughout history though, it has evolved and many version of it are circulating. There was a special on the history channel about this

Answer 5

Mary Shelley accepted a challenge from Lord Byron to write a scary story. Shelley got the idea from experiments going on at Eton College involving the use of electric shock to bring frogs back to life.

Answer 6

well the writer and a couple writer friends (names elude me) went on a little trip to the country. they had a little contest amongst them to see who could come up with the best short story over the weekend. the normal ideas came out but then Shelley went to bed and in the night had a nightmare which was all about the monster of Frankenstein. she was abit freaked out and told the friends who encouraged her to write it into a book. so after some adjustments and fine tuning. Dr frank was born.
there was obviously no TV in those days

Answer 7

NOthing was going on at the time. Mary shelley , who's future husband Percy (she was having an affair with the guy at the time) was a writer, and 2 writing friends of theirs basically had a competition on who could write the best story. Mary's was published, and the others were not..

Answer 8

The book Franenstein is supposedly based on the life of Vlad the Impaler ..no doubt Mary Shelley had research her book and came across this ...and decided to incorporate it into her story

Answer 9

It was a bet with her husband and some friends to see who could write the scariest book.

Answer 10

Wasn't it a nightmare that Mary Shelley had that gave her the idea?