The influence of William Godwin on the novels...

The influence of William Godwin on the novels of Marry Shelley

Author Name : Dr. Ashutosh Kumar Bharti

ABSTRACT The present study deals with the influence of William Godwin's political theories on Mary Shelly's novels. Godwin was a political philosopher, journalist and novelist during the late 18th to the early 19th century. He was the father of philosophical anarchism and is the most famous for his work "An Enquiry concerning to political justice (1793)" and novel as "Caleb Williams," "St. Leon," "Mandeville," and "Cloudeslay" etc. In these books he uses his political ideas through his novels. He also wrote annually which were summaries of domestic and for geopolitical affairs. He joined a club called "the Revolutionist" and associated much with Lord Stanhope, Home Tooke and Hopcroft etc. His family, his circles, his education and religious faith Calvanic ideas, had much influenced their children. In the present time it reflect in Indian politics, administration and other activities of society. His whole members were writers and Godway turned in Literary world so he is significant today. The writing career of Mary Shelley was developed primarily under the guiding hand of her father William Godwin. She was an affectionate, intelligent woman, but her intellectual drive and power to create needed the stimulus of a more galvanic force than her own. This force she derived from a number of literary friends and visitors, but especially from P.B. Shelley and William Godwin. With the death of Shelley she looked chiefly to Godwin. With the death of Shelley, she looked chiefly to Godwin for her inspiration, and to the memory of Shelley and her mother, Many Wollstonecraft.