Mary Shelley Frankenstein Feminist Analysis

Mary Shelley showed in Frankenstein an anticipated argument that promoted a feminist message and warning against the exclusion of women as well as the debate of what is ethical. Most certainly the Enlightenment period was a time of development within most aspects of life, varying from medicine, technology, to literature as well as developing oneself to become an individual with unique thoughts and comprehending reason without simply following authoritative figures.
The publication of Frankenstein exposed a novel that emerged views that the author personally believed, which expressed that the Enlightenment was dominated by masculine values. Frankenstein evoked what appeared to be the view that as men continued to venture into developing what …show more content…
The creature created by Frankenstein has no identifiable gender, despite being created physically as male he is denied masculine dominance over the female gender by his creator, who has created him to be too grotesque to be accepted by society. The creature has no identifiable gender in terms of the fact there is no gender binary roles to show a boundary between male and female genders, but then certainly alike his creator, Victor, the creature does show feminine characteristics after being profoundly affected by literature the creature has read but also by nature, and being sensitive to emotion. The creature is seemingly made to be male so that the relationship between the creature and the creator is only to be perceived as physical, violent and rhetorical.
The absence of femininity is the creature 's integral flaw as without it, he lacks the stereotypically associated female traits that society links to femininity; a sense of compassion, nurturing and affection. Without these, the creature is not able to communicate and have a human connection the same way others do, and therefore his life may be different if such traits were embedded to him. However, this is arguable considering the creature 's grotesque appearance, which still is the creature 's inevitable downfall in society, causing him to be the