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This 7 page paper discusses the elements apparent in the work of Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein. The themes of motherhood, miscarriages, sex, gender, is discussed from a psychological context based on events in Shelley's life. Examples given from the text, and cited.Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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to society. In fact, for the most part, they were still considered property by the male dominated society, having no rights, including inheritance from their own parents, rights in court,
the right to vote, or to handle money. This would have made any independent minded young woman chafe, to say the least, and would cause a great deal of social
alienation should she ever seek to breach the social confines that had been dictated. Having stated this, then, this paper will seek to give a critical analysis of Shelleys novel
in respect to her views on marriage, childhood, childbirth and a womans sexuality. These particular topics would have been something that would have been an integral part of the young
womans life during Shelleys time. By the time she was twenty-five, she had, had four children, one of them a miscarriage(Seymour, 21). Of those pregnancies, only one of her children
lived to adulthood. These types of tragedies had to have played in to her portrayal of life, death, birth and the miracle of children. Marys first child died
when Mary was only nineteen, and it would be only a few years later that she would pen Frankenstein. The fact that she would lose nearly all of her children
to various circumstances lends logic and reason to her themes in Frankenstein, which seem to embrace the delicious ambiguity of life and death and the ultimate question of ones humanity.
It can be stated that Frankenstein was probably one of the first books of its time to address womens issues. That it is done in the confines of a horror
novel is even more ironic when one considers what a womans lot was during this era. The issues of sex, childbirth and topics concerning a womans body just werent discussed
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