2022-2023学年高二典范阅读 In Greek mythology 学案

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Mary Shelley (1797–1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. After Wollstonecraft's death less than a month after her daughter’s birth, Mary was raised by her father, Godwin, alone. When Mary was four, her father married a neighbor, with whom Mary came to have a troubled relationship. In 1814, Mary began a romance with one of her father's political followers, Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was already married. Together with Mary's stepsister Claire Clairmont, Mary and Shelley left for France and travelled through Europe. Upon their return to England, Mary was pregnant with Percy's child. Over the next two years, she and Percy faced constant debt and the death of their prematurely-born daughter, after which, Mary wrote about a dream in her dairy: “I dreamt that my little baby came to life again—that it had only been cold and that we rubbed it before the fire and it lived.” They married in late 1816, after the suicide of Percy Shelley's first wife, Harriet. In 1816, the couple famously spent a summer with Lord Byron, John William Polidori, and Claire Clairmont near Geneva, Switzerland, where Mary conceived the idea for her novel Frankenstein. The Shelleys left Britain in 1818 for Italy, where their second and third children died before Mary Shelley gave birth to her last and only surviving child, Percy Florence Shelley. In 1822, her husband drowned when his sailing boat sank during a storm. A year later, Mary Shelley returned to England and from then on devoted herself to the upbringing of her son and a career as a professional author. The last decade of her life was dogged by illness. Task 1: Read through the reading material, and underline the historical figures mentioned in the passage and f