The novel Frankenstein was published in 1818 after Mary Shelley wrote it in a friction contest. It received tremendous appreciation and was later remade into dramas and movies, which showed the novel’s popularity. However, the discussion of the novel Frankenstein remained mainly on its innovative Gothic genre and role of the monster, but not on any other aspect which are yet also significant. As an example, the role of femininity is the main topic of this essay.
In the story, most of the female characters are described as representations of beauty, care, and graceful. However, before Mary Shelley, her mother Mary Wollstonecraft has authored A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). Under many reasons including the influence of her mother Mary Wollstonecraft, it is especially likely that Mary Shelley consciously arranged the ending of each of the female characters.
The first major female …show more content…
When once the little Elizabeth caught a scarlet fever, which soon turned severe and dangerous, Caroline cannot control her anxiety and attended Elizabeth’s sick bed:
“...-- Elizabeth was saved, but the consequences of this imprudence were fatal to her preserver…” (Shelley 3:1)
Mary Shelley arranged this death in order to express certain ideas, and this idea is indirectly reinforced at the end of the story through Elizabeth. Because Victor is afraid that the weak Elizabeth may become upset at the monster and the battle, he asked Elizabeth to retire for the night, and thus made a fatal flaw causing Elizabeth to be completely unprotected and killed by the monster.
On the other hand, Safie is a woman who was trying to escape the limit of her family in Turkey and to marry a European man. She ran away from Turkey and met a completely unfamiliar environment which she knows nothing about the new culture and language. In this process, Safie faced tremendous hardship, even facing the
In the story, most of the female characters are described as representations of beauty, care, and graceful. However, before Mary Shelley, her mother Mary Wollstonecraft has authored A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). Under many reasons including the influence of her mother Mary Wollstonecraft, it is especially likely that Mary Shelley consciously arranged the ending of each of the female characters.
The first major female …show more content…
When once the little Elizabeth caught a scarlet fever, which soon turned severe and dangerous, Caroline cannot control her anxiety and attended Elizabeth’s sick bed:
“...-- Elizabeth was saved, but the consequences of this imprudence were fatal to her preserver…” (Shelley 3:1)
Mary Shelley arranged this death in order to express certain ideas, and this idea is indirectly reinforced at the end of the story through Elizabeth. Because Victor is afraid that the weak Elizabeth may become upset at the monster and the battle, he asked Elizabeth to retire for the night, and thus made a fatal flaw causing Elizabeth to be completely unprotected and killed by the monster.
On the other hand, Safie is a woman who was trying to escape the limit of her family in Turkey and to marry a European man. She ran away from Turkey and met a completely unfamiliar environment which she knows nothing about the new culture and language. In this process, Safie faced tremendous hardship, even facing the