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This 7 page paper discusses some of the feminist thinking about Mary Shelley’s classic novel “Frankenstein.” Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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This paper explore the feminist thinking about the novel. Discussion Frankenstein lends itself to feminist critique, oddly enough, because of the lack of a nurturing female figure in the book.
The creature is "born" an adult but with a "miserable frame [that] embodies the omission of infancy and childhood from Frankensteins conception" (Yousef 197). That is, the creature is not
brought to life "as a small, helpless infant in need of the care of others; his height and vigor are exaggerated inversions of the tininess and weakness of newborns" (Yousef
197). This begs the question, which has no satisfactory answer: why did Frankenstein choose to create a fully-grown adult instead of a newborn? Perhaps the answer is that he was
creating his "monster" out of body parts, and Shelley knew her audience would not have accepted it if he had used the bodies of children; the "construction" of an adult
human being is distasteful enough as it is. At any rate, after the creature is "born," he undergoes a long period in of growth that might be compared to the
early explorations of a toddler; but because of his size and the fact that he is a mature individual he is denied the "varied and prolonged dependence on others" that
follows the birth of a normal human (Yousef 197). The creature himself associates the lack of a "formative history" with his physicality; throughout the book, he shows an increasing self-knowledge
that makes him extremely sympathetic (Yousef). Here, thinking of his appearance, he notes "I was unformed in mind; I was dependent on none, and related to none. ...My person was
hideous and my stature gigantic" (Shelley 128). The creature actually is a "giant"-much larger in stature than an ordinary person---and Yousef suggests that Shelley uses this device to illustrate the
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