Mary Shelley's Frankenstein A romantic life full of pain and abandonment could only be given the monstrous form of "Frankenstein." Mary Shelley's life gave birth to an imaginary victim full of misery and loneliness and placed him as the protagonist of one of her most famous and greatest work of art. As most people would assume he is not just a fictional character but in fact a creature who desperately demonstrates Shelley's tragedies and loss during the age of "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings." Since Mary Shelley's birth there have been numerous loss's in her life. One extremely dominating event in Shelley's life was the death of her mother. Only ten days after Shelley'