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A 3 page paper which examines the presence of
gender issues in Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein." Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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divisions, and many other elements that speak of gender concerns. With that in mind the following paper briefly examines Shelleys novel, through various critics, as it involves issues of
gender. Gender and Frankenstein "Not only is the narrative about the violence and tyranny of the scientific intellect; it is also about the exclusion of the feminine. Indeed, the
feminine is presented as nothing more than a mirror or vehicle for the male subject" (Dr. Claire Colebrooks Lecture). In other words it is nothing but secondary in this novel
according to this particular critic, for "Victor loves Elizabeth, who is both his sister and an echo of his mother. Walton, Victor and the monster all see woman as a
reflection and counterpart of their own nature" (Dr. Claire Colebrooks Lecture). This critic illustrates this condition through providing a quote from the novel wherein Victor says, "I ... looked upon
Elizabeth as mine - mine to protect, love and cherish. All praises bestowed on her I received as made to a possession of my own" (Shelley 37). This critic further
indicates that "Victor wants to recreate himself and repress the female body. He is a typically masculine subject, where self and others only reflect his own self....The novel can be
read as a feminist amendment to Romantic narcissism" (Dr. Claire Colebrooks Lecture). In further examination we note that "The novel is critical of the male/female boundary, showing the ways in
which the ideology and discourse of sexual difference produces positions and relations of power" (Dr. Claire Colebrooks Lecture). There is, however, the femininity possessed by Victor in that he is
the creator of life itself. In that he takes upon himself the role of mother and he fails miserably, abandoning his child and refuses to perhaps admit the feminine elements
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