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As the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and the political philosopher , and the wife of Romantic poet Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley had a politically influenced childhood and young adulthood which may be evident in the creation of Frankenstein. The character of can be seen as presenting a critique of society by means of the objections it voices about its treatment by other people on account of its appearance. Alternatively, the monster's character may reflect a fear of mob rule in society. The novel was largely completed in one of its main settings , where Mary and others shared a villa with poets Percy Shelley and , who challenged the house guests to write . A discussion between Shelley and Byron about the reanimation experiments involving dead frogs that were carried out by Erasmus Darwin led Mary to use contemporary advances in the field of as an inspiration for her story. This is reflected in the alternative title for the novel, The New . The character of Victor also embodies the spirit of the period of the in his attempt to reshape the natural world by scientific means and his about the power of .