I have chosen to use “The monster within: Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" and a patient's fears of childbirth and mothering” by Barbara R. Almond as my scholarly article. The article talks about the reasons why women fear childbearing and deducts that Mary Shelley’s own fears created the novel Frankenstein and the monster. Almond propositions that the two main concerns of giving birth are “firstly, the monster is an impossible child, the issue of a failed dream… Secondly, and perhaps more important, the child as monster is a reflection of the monster within the mother” (Almond, 776). She goes on to mentions parallels between Shelley’s personal life and the novel Frankenstein, and uses her own clinical material. This may not be a dominant viewpoint;
