Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, author of the famous novel Frankenstein, was born in Somers Town, London, to William Godwin, a philosopher and writer, and Mary Wollstonecraft, a feminist. philosopher, died eleven days after the birth of her daughter. Even at a very young age, Mary was strongly encouraged to write by her father and she enjoyed it immensely. At twenty-one, she released her most famous novel, Frankenstein (Mary Shelley - Biography). In this novel, Victor Frankenstein uses his vast medical knowledge to create a new human species. At first, Victor is happy with his creation until it mysteriously comes to life! Then the creator is horrified by his creation. There are many parallels between the novel and the account of the creation of humanity in Genesis, where God is equivalent to Victor and Adam is parallel to the monster. Mary Shelley, with her novel Frankenstein, exposes the fragile relationship between a creator and creation, which parallels the creation account in Genesis. While these two wonderful stories begin the same way and follow the same timeline of events...