LITERATURE

Frankenstein



Frankenstein

Introduction

Mary Shelley Wollstonecraft was a British Romantic novelist, poet, travel writer, and biographer whose most popular novel Frankenstein (1818) is credited with having pioneered the science fiction genre. In addition, the novel, as well as Shelley's oeuvre as a whole, is often read as a nightmare of procreation, constellated as it is by fears of childbirth and of death of family members, especially children. William, the couple's son born in 1816, died three years later, and in 1822 Mary fell into a deep depression after the miscarriage of her third child. However, several notes are overshadowed in popularity by Frankenstein, written in her 20s.

Feminist readings of Shelley's novel Frankenstein in the 1970s made it an important text in the literary canon. The novel, where a monster is created by a male inventor, can be interpreted as a commentary on the nurturing role of women in society. Famously defined by the author as “my hideous progeny,” the book, some feminists readers interpret, spells out the warning that a science based on masculinist assumptions is dangerously marginalizing the role of women as educators. In addition, through such a tragic act of reproduction that excludes women, the novel indicts this exclusion and critiques theories of nonsexual reproduction that had been put forth by the science of the day. In her critique, it is the scientist Victor, the perpetrator of such motherless reproduction, who becomes the true monster of the story.

Thesis Statement

Retribution is a natural feeling dwelling which requires a stimulant for it to break loose. The way it should be controlled varies from individual to individual.

Discussion

Currently, vengeance is an attribute that is still in existence which persists in the calm façade that exists in the outer and it only requires a stimulant for it to break loose. The proof of which can be seen from the reactions of the American people for Bin Laden. Laden destroyed and impacted so many lives, and now, there is probably not one American that would not love to get their revenge with him considering that he has hurt so many people. The hunger for the feeling of vengeance that exists is completely Dionysian and is such is found in Mark Shelly's Frankenstein.

Mary Shelley discusses various topics like the shadow & light, orphans, loneliness, love, friendship, eloquence, education, the injustice, the innocence, the enormity, the science, consciousness, the look, prejudice, the status of women, the ...