Mary Shelley was not known as the owner of this master piece. The only aspect that did not allow her to say from the beginning that she created Frankenstein was that she was a woman.
She had a really difficult like and her family was very unusual. She was raised in an environment that allowed her to dream and create new characters and new ideas taken from what she could see and think.
I believe one of the main feelings that she developed in this novel is the relationship between love and family. Victor gave life to a creature that did not know anything about this world, and when he saw him for the first time, he rejected him. In these days this act is penalized by law; any parent who does this is rejected by the society and punish by the law. Nobody has the right to give life to a creature and then live it alone. So, this makes me wonder....was this usual in M. Shelley's time?? Was maternity seen in a different way in those times? were men involved in this process?
I started reading Frankenstein without knowledge about the novel. I've never watched a movie neither read a book. So, at the beginning was only a descriptive way of reading. However, after sharing experiences and ideas with my classmates I saw how much feelings arouse from me when thinking in this creature being born without a family and being raised by himself.
Maternity is something that must be taken seriously in order to have in the future better people to change this world.
She had a really difficult like and her family was very unusual. She was raised in an environment that allowed her to dream and create new characters and new ideas taken from what she could see and think.
I believe one of the main feelings that she developed in this novel is the relationship between love and family. Victor gave life to a creature that did not know anything about this world, and when he saw him for the first time, he rejected him. In these days this act is penalized by law; any parent who does this is rejected by the society and punish by the law. Nobody has the right to give life to a creature and then live it alone. So, this makes me wonder....was this usual in M. Shelley's time?? Was maternity seen in a different way in those times? were men involved in this process?
I started reading Frankenstein without knowledge about the novel. I've never watched a movie neither read a book. So, at the beginning was only a descriptive way of reading. However, after sharing experiences and ideas with my classmates I saw how much feelings arouse from me when thinking in this creature being born without a family and being raised by himself.
Maternity is something that must be taken seriously in order to have in the future better people to change this world.
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Great comments!
Answering one of your questions, it was comment to abandon children at Shelley's time especially poor families, and men's role was to bring food to the table, raising and educating was the role of the mother or people in charge...
Something that didn't change that much was the feeling of abandonees most children must felt from their families...
What do you think about humans trying to play God's/ women's role? Could it be that every time human beings do something "unnatural" the consequences are negative? Why?
Take care,
Claudia
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