The role of women through Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein do not reflect that of a feminist but the underlying message contradicts this idea. The scene of the creation of the monster and his female partner has very conflicting views. On a superficial note it, appears as the creature is being created without a female carrier, unnaturally. Victor can be seen saying “I beheld my man completed… I collected instruments of life around me that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet”(Shelley 80). This shows that the man created was not created the natural way through pregnancy but rather pieces of other humans sewn together. This originally shows the reader that women are so immensely degraded to a point where they are not even needed for reproduction, one of the most prominent characteristics of females.
…show more content…
Further, into the novel, Victor Frankenstein is asked to create a female partner for the creature and while doing so he destroys it before he finishes. Although this image created does not output ideas of feminism literally, a little deeper the reader can see that Mary Shelley is supporting feministic ideas. Victor can be seen ripping the body apart when contemplating the ideas of reproduction, sexuality, and desires. Victor is threatened by the ideas of the female creature reproducing and creating more creatures along with the fact that the male creature desires a female partner depicts the idea that women are desired by men thus threatening a world of self-independent men. This underlying feminist message helps empower the women of the nineteenth century as it shows that men are threatened by their reproductive powers along with the fact that they are desired by men and in some cases irresistible as depicted in the case of the
Further, into the novel, Victor Frankenstein is asked to create a female partner for the creature and while doing so he destroys it before he finishes. Although this image created does not output ideas of feminism literally, a little deeper the reader can see that Mary Shelley is supporting feministic ideas. Victor can be seen ripping the body apart when contemplating the ideas of reproduction, sexuality, and desires. Victor is threatened by the ideas of the female creature reproducing and creating more creatures along with the fact that the male creature desires a female partner depicts the idea that women are desired by men thus threatening a world of self-independent men. This underlying feminist message helps empower the women of the nineteenth century as it shows that men are threatened by their reproductive powers along with the fact that they are desired by men and in some cases irresistible as depicted in the case of the