Frankenstein Feminism

Frankenstein feminism

Frankenstein is a novel written by Mary Shelley, The story is based on the legendary book involving Victor Frankenstein's obsession with discovering how to sustain life in earthly animals, and eventually humans. He creates a person of his own by spare body parts, keeping a journal the entire time. Eventually, Frankenstein animates his creation, realizes the creature was an abomination and tries to destroy it; however, the creature escapes with the doctor's journal, learns about what he is, learns English from a family in a countryside home, and eventually seeks out his creator to have Frankenstein animate a mate for him.

After I finish read Frankenstein novel and the Frankenstein film, I personally thought that purpose of Frankenstein was to warn us that we are not gods, and that there are limits we were not meant to exceed. The creation of life is a duty relegated to God, or nature, or whichever creator you resign yourself to. When Frankenstein created the creature, he breached the boundaries of nature's design, and therefore paid the due consequences. The monster's rejection from society and eventual misery are also the burdens of Frankenstein, as it was he who introduced a life into a world that had nothing to do with its creation.

The Frankenstein is edged with hints of the feminist viewpoint. Devoid of any strong female characters, Shelly inserted into Victor Frankenstein's tale the role that society expects women to play, and shows the idealized powerless female of the romantic era.

The female character- Justine was an idealized figure, described during the trial as having a countenance which, ‘always engaging, was rendered, by the solemnity of her feelings, exquisitely beautiful.' She is the archetypal innocent, being beautiful, weak and entirely accepting of her fate to the point of martyrdom. She would doubtless incense feminists now, accepting

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