Mary Shelley was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, travel writer, and editor of the works of her husband, Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley was taken seriously as a writer in her own lifetime, though reviewers often missed the political edge to her novels. After her death, however, she was remembered only as the wife of Percy Shelley and as the author of Frankenstein.
Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of committed science student Victor Frankenstein. Obsessed with discovering the cause of generation and life and bestowing
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There's Victor who shows how he loves his wife Elizabeth. He uses terms of affection like "my love"(l.15) to talk to her. Moreover After the monster killed Elizabeth, Victor says things like "Could I behold this and live?" (L.30) demonstrating the impact of Elizabeth's death upon him. Also "Elizabeth whom i had loved and cherished" (l.38) which is pretty explicit of Victors feelings about his dear wife.
In the addition of Love, there's also friendship between husband and wife. In one side there's Elizabeth that seems concerned about Victor, where when she sees "Victor's glance which communicated terror" (l.13), she asks him using also a term of affection "What is it that agitates you, my dear Victor? What is it you fear?" (L.14). In the other side there's Victor which upon Elizabeth's death he says that she was "so dear, so worthy" (l.34-35).
The story shows us two different types of relationship. In one hand, we can see the marriage between Elizabeth and Victor, "my love, my wife" (l.34); Where they show love and affection towards each other. Even when there's an ambiguous side to it because while on their wedding night, instead of staying together and cherish each other's company, Victor leaves Elizabeth's to search for the monster. However many this act of leaving her as an act out of love, he left her to secure her from the monster that he