Female Gothic: The Monster's Mother By Mary Shelley

According to Ellen Moers in Female Gothic: The Monster's Mother, she talked about Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and the "female gothic" as a female literature. She explained what the term "gothic" means. Moers describes the female gothic genre as it was before Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein and how Shelley changed the genre. She compared Shelly's writing styles to Ann Radcliff's "damsel in distress" general writing styles to Shelley's heroic tales which were often absent of female heroines. Shelley was one of few female writers of her time who has bored children. This perspective made her able to create Frankenstein in a different perspective than her male compeers. She brought birth to fiction writing as a Gothic fantasy.
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She highlighted the negative consequences due to the abandonment of the monster in Frankenstein which showed the darker side of birth and motherhood. In the novel, it is described of how Victor Frankenstein creates the monster from the remains of the decease and experienced the emotion when he creates the monster as Shelley wrote, “How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe or how delineate the wrench whom with such infinite pains and care I have endeavored to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful!-Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscle and arteries beneath; his hair was of lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only form a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion, and straight black lips” (Shelley, 35). This description are described by Frankenstein as he putted a lot of time and care into creating the monster as his emotions are similar to a new mother holding her newborn in her arms for the first time. When the monster comes alive, it became the combination of death and birth as the monster is created from dead body part as Frankenstein …show more content…
According to Lehman, he wrote that Mary Shelly was encourage to utilize her pen, to compose, and to take an interest in the abstract world…The two lamentable occasions throughout her life to that point focused her consideration on the wellspring of human presence. They gave the tension and inspiration which brought about the abstract achievement Frankenstein. In Victor Frankenstein, Mary Shelley made a male character which longed for the existential security of essential procreative force in the same way that she herself. Shelly used her personal experience to write Frankenstein as she focused as a gothic literature and the “birth myth” behind it. Gothic novels focus on the mysterious or supernatural and yield unease if not terror in the readers. At the age of eighteen, she was a mother of her children but one has died in infancy, she created her character named Victor Frankenstein and how he created the monster. The monster was like a newborn child as Frankenstein was the parent who has taken the female role by giving birth to a child such as the mother who worked hard to given birth to their baby. She also focused how the monster felt being abandoned as he are rejected by society; society became afraid of him and would not go near

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Female Gothic: The Monster's Mother By Mary Shelley

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