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The Role Of Erikson's Crisis In Frankenstein By Mary Shelley

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Throughout Frankenstein, there was a lot of life and death. Mary Shelley’s book seemed almost like something was missing from her life. The events in her book were very drastic and they do not follow Erikson’s crisis at all. Some researchers have believed that it was because of her life. After looking at her life and Erikson’s crisis, it is obvious that the lack of parental care and other events in her life led to the creation she called Frankenstein. Mary Shelley’s mother passed right after giving birth and she writes about the white gravestone and motherless child. Mary was the motherless child and her mother had a white gravestone. This hindered the first and second process of Erikson’s crisis in Mary Shelley’s life because she lacked
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