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Feminism and the Elimination of Female Characters in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein | ||
| Al-Ma'mon College Journal | ||
| Article 1, Volume 0, Issue 21, 2018, Pages 302-313 | ||
| Author | ||
| Haneen Sabah Abid | ||
| Abstract | ||
| My thesis in this paper addresses the feminist side in the 1818 version of Frankenstein and the way Mary Shelley draws the attention to women’s sufferings and weaknesses by actually creating weak female characters that die one by one throughout the development of the novel. I will portray the nature of those characters and their importance in depicting Mary Shelley’s message in the light of several critiques of the novel and Mary Shelley’s life. Shelley’s novel lacks any strong and active female characters. Her characters spend the whole time suffering from the mistreatment they get from their society and the men they love, and they spend their lives within only the domestic sphere. They are all described as being beautiful, fair, selfless, weak, and submissive to man’s will no matter how unjust it might be, and they never try to change their fate. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| feminism; Mary Shelley; Frankenstein | ||
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