Fortune

I am curious to learn more about the word fortune because I think it is something most people believe in on some level but never think about it. Every day we go about our lives hoping that we will do well on our test, find money on the floor, or will have the fortune to have something good happen. I am curious to see how far back the concept of luck or good fortune goes. I find it hard to imagine in a time where someone did not desire the chance of something turning out favorable. Right now fortune to me contains an important message or desire present in almost everyone's life on some level, which can be unreliable but reassuring.

Percy Shelley and Frankenstein

Bryon and Shelley helped her start writing Frankenstein after discussing about “the principle of life.” Shelley helped with Publishers.

While Bryon saw Mary's writing as a diversion, Shelley pushed Mary to keep writing. He even dropped his own writings to encourage her. However while Mary states she owes the expansion of her ideas to Shelley, she insists that not " the suggestion of one incident, nor scarcely of one train of feeling" was his. 

Shelley, took the name Victor for his writing. The word “victory” was often used in his poems. Anyone who knew Shelley could scarcely think of Victor or victory without thinking of him.

Frankenstein and Shelley close in character. Both are ardent and high-spirited youths that are both promising and passionate individuals.

Frankenstein and Shelley both have a similar description of their childhood.

“my  temper was sometimes violent, and my passions vehement; but by some law in my temperature they were turned , not towards childish pursuits, but to an eager desire to learn.”

            Shelley’s boyhood in Life: His early understanding and early development of imagination never permitted him to mingle in childish players.”

Both Shelley and Frankenstein had an interest to learn “the secrets of heaven and earth.” It is believed that in Frankenstein when Frankenstein describes his obsession to find the secrets of both the material and immaterial worlds “ whether it was the outward substance of things, of the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my enquiries were directed to the  metaphysical or , in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world”—it might be Shelley speaking.