A Feminist Perspective On “frankenstein”

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...the first science fiction novel ever written, and as such it has been analyzed from many perspectives; as pure science fiction, as a moral fable, and from the feminist viewpoint. 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 Frankenstein’s 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...

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