Reflection Of Gender Roles In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Mary Shelley was a significant reflection of her parents. Her mother was Mary Wollstonecraft who published one classics manifesto of sexual equality, A Vindiction of the Rights of Woman(1792). Her father was William Godwin , he had established his preeminence in radical British political thought with his Enquiry Concerning Political Justice(1793). William won a permanent spot in literary history with his novel Caleb Williams(1794). Mary’s mother died due to complications of her birth and later her father re married . Mary felt like she had to compete for her father’s affection. As she grew older her stepmother could see a spitting image of her mother and decided to send her away to Scotland. The two years in Scotland helped nurture Mary’s literary imagination. Mary began to write Frankenstein during the 1816. Through the years in 1818 opened the publication of Frankenstein. Frankenstein is a novel …show more content…
That being that the narrator was a male and the main character of Victor Frankenstein was also a male. There are many other male roles in this novel and throughout the book when a female speaks it’s about a male character.The male’s role can also play a part on the significance of the woman’s role in Frankenstein. The male characters in this novel are detached from any domestic matter. The men are portrayed as single-minded and pursuit their own goals. Throughout Frankenstein’s research he also showed his careless neglect for domestic and social obligations. It seems that the male characters impulses spiral out of control. The male in the novel Frankenstein is portrayed as self-absorbed and single-minded. During the Victorian times, the woman took care of the domestic part of the home. Men were not expected to contribute to any domestic matters. The men would just work and bring home the money. This made it seem like that is their duty. As long as they worked, that they did not have to help around the