Mathilda: (Annotated Edition)
- ISBN-10
- ISBN-13
- 9798468005835
- Series
- Mathilda
- Pages
- 62
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-09
- Author
- Mary Mary Shelley
Description
Mathilda is a novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley that explores the life of Matilda, a woman isolated from society due to her unconventional upbringing. Matilda's mother dies immediately after childbirth, leaving her father devastated. He passes on the parental responsibility to Matilda's aunt and leaves. Sixteen years later, the father returns only to confess his undying incestuous love for her daughter and then proceeds to commit suicide by drowning. After the death of her aunt and father, Matilda falls into a cycle of loneliness, unhappiness, and suicidal tendencies. Drowning in a deep depression, she fakes her death and completely removes herself from the society, choosing to live in utter isolation with only her one maid as a company. Plagued with the same fate as her father, she plans to commit suicide. Matilda enlists the help of her close friend who is a poet and tasks him with making her death as romantic as possible by consuming poison together.
