Mary Shelly’s novel, The Original Frankenstein, reveals how the desire for knowledge can lead to undetermined consequences. Mary Shelly, important feminist of her time, reveals the submissive role women played in society during her time. The story first holds no strong female character, but rather they quickly enter the story and are immediate dismissed within the same chapter. Many of the female characters suffer through their life quietly until they are killed by Victor’s actions. Since these characters suffer silently the reader is not allowed to see their difficulties, instead all we experience is Victor’s miserable life. Looking at the history of abortifacients we see a decline in the power women once held for their personal being. Through
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The male monster “had sworn to quit the neighborhood of man and hide himself in deserts, but she had not… [she] might refuse to comply with a compact made before her creation,” which created a unsettling fear inside Victor that the female monster would murder humans. Victor is seen as a God because is he is able to give life to unanimated bodies, and refuse life to other bodies. The female monster could be compared to a newly conceived fetus that is growing and Victor is the pregnant woman who is essential for the monster to be created and have life. Victor aborts the life of the female monster, his act of creation, and his may be related to the concept that women have the ability to abort life if they so wish to. Victor knows if he aborts the female monster then procreation is impossible for the monsters, Victor maintains control through the destruction of the female monster, and he is able to save future generations from the monsters’ horror. According to Dworkin’s book, Victor’s decision to abort the creation of the female monster, “itself has interests at the time the abortion is performed, not whether interests will develop if no abortion takes place,” shows his interest in the future generations and how these monsters may affect the future (19). If Victor would have aborted the male monster he would have saved himself, his loved ones, and saved the monster of unending
The male monster “had sworn to quit the neighborhood of man and hide himself in deserts, but she had not… [she] might refuse to comply with a compact made before her creation,” which created a unsettling fear inside Victor that the female monster would murder humans. Victor is seen as a God because is he is able to give life to unanimated bodies, and refuse life to other bodies. The female monster could be compared to a newly conceived fetus that is growing and Victor is the pregnant woman who is essential for the monster to be created and have life. Victor aborts the life of the female monster, his act of creation, and his may be related to the concept that women have the ability to abort life if they so wish to. Victor knows if he aborts the female monster then procreation is impossible for the monsters, Victor maintains control through the destruction of the female monster, and he is able to save future generations from the monsters’ horror. According to Dworkin’s book, Victor’s decision to abort the creation of the female monster, “itself has interests at the time the abortion is performed, not whether interests will develop if no abortion takes place,” shows his interest in the future generations and how these monsters may affect the future (19). If Victor would have aborted the male monster he would have saved himself, his loved ones, and saved the monster of unending