What is the main idea of the introduction to frankenstein? a. the best way to write a gothic story is to read good examples, then hold a competition with your friends. b. humans who try to play god will be haunted until death by their hideous creations. c. the idea for frankenstein comes to mary shelley as a series of terrifying images after she overhears a discussion about reanimation. d. mary shelley and her husband meet lord byron during a rainy summer in switzerland.

The correct answer is C. The idea for Frankenstein comes to Mary Shelley as a series of terrifying images after she overhears a discussion about reanimation. Mary Shelley made an anonymous but powerful debut into the world of literature when Frankenstein was published in March 1818. She was nineteen years old when she began writing her story. One night Mary Shelley imagined the "hideous phantasm of man" who became the deeply sensitive creature in Frankenstein. The novel combines, for example, themes of nature versus nature, good versus evil, and ambition versus social responsibility dominate readers' attention.

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each morning i wrote my name

on the dusty cabinet, then crossed

the dining table in script, scrawled

in capitals on the backs of chairs,

practicing signatures like scales

while mother followed squirting

linseed from a burping can