Frankenstein
How does Mary Shelly change the reader’s opinion of Frankenstein’s monster in these three extracts?
Frankenstein is an enormously popular novel that is told to youngsters and elderly too. The novel was first published in 1818, based on a terrifying nightmare. However due to circumstances in that particular time, it was left without the author’s name on. These circumstances were them of the role of the woman and where her place should be. A woman’s role was believed to be at home, looking after the children, baking, sewing, most certainly not writing.
However this wasn’t the case for one woman, Mary Shelly. Instead, due to having such a radical family, consisting of her father, a professor and her mother, an outrageous fanatic believer of for the equal rights of women she followed in their footsteps. Both of her parents were encouraging her to write. Therefore that’s exactly what she did. However cunningly instead of putting her female name to the book, instead she simply left the novel with no name to it. This is due to her not wanting some dominant thinking man coming along glancing at the feminine name then tossing it aside without even reading what the book’s title was. Mary Shelly’s sly plan worked and became an extremely popular novel and now a film. The novel now has her name to it.
