what influenced mary shelley to write frankenstein
Frontispiece illustration to 1831 edition of Frankenstein. When Mary Shelley composed Frankenstein, she was influenced by several literary classics she had read with her future husband Percy. She references these works in Frankenstein, among them Ovid's Metamorphoses and John Milton's Paradise Lost.
Rating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: The idea of someone trying to play God was influenced by her husband, Percy Shelley and his friends talking about it. She never planned to write Frankenstein, she and her friends went away on holiday to Switzerland and while there they made up ghost stories to tell to each other. Mary Shelley was determined to think up of a frightening story and it took her a few days to find the right one.