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In ten pages this paper examines how Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel and James Whale’s 1931 film Frankenstein depict the fate of women who are entrenched within a patriarchal society that was based upon their total dependence on men. Eight sources are listed in the bibliography.
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She was, after all, the daughter of eighteenth-century womens rights crusader Mary Wollstonecraft, author of the 1792 feminist treatise entitled Vindication of the Rights of Woman. However, young
Mary never knew her mother and namesake because she succumbed to puerperal fever shortly after giving birth in 1797 (Gilbert and Gubar 237). Marys widowed father, the equally unconventional
philosopher William Godwin, was a remote and distant presence in her life. Wracked with guilt over her mothers death as the result of her birth and desperately seeking attention
from her absent father, Mary Godwins childhood was an unhappy one. Because she had no independent female role models in her life, young Mary focused upon strong men, and
so it came as no surprise that she would elope at 17 with Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (despite being an already married father of two), a man who reminded
her of her father. Instead of following in the footsteps of her trailblazing mother, Mary Shelleys foray into literary feminism had more to do with pleasing the men in
her life than it did to champion womens causes. At a gathering consisting of Percy Shelleys male artist friends, Lord Byron proposed that each person compose a ghost story
(Gilbert and Gubar 239). Marys story was transformed into the novel Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus, which was first published in 1818. This literary masterpiece was reflective of
the authors personal life as well as representative of the social patriarchy in which she lived. During the early nineteenth century, women were little more than male-dependent appendages whose
sole purposes in life were to give birth, nurture, and provide emotional support for their husbands and children. The novel and its subsequent cinematic interpretations by James Whale -
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