I chose to write about The Women of Frankenstein by William Veeder. The article doesn’t say when it’s written but its pg 271-273. In this article William starts out by saying that Mary was very sense of the weakness in herself and womanhood that makes her defensive in Frankenstein. It tells the reading that women are no more immune than a man to weakness, and that Mary justifies that women are less then weak. It states in the article that there is a lot of weakness in Frankenstein and that we must be more attuned than most criticism has been to the careful controls which prevent readers from responding. It also talks about Justine and her weakness when she has to go to court and the lessons her and Elizabeth has to face.
The author is right about Frankenstein, it does show a lot of weakness and readers have to be careful with all of the criticism. After reading every article in this book this is the only one I could really relate to, women are seen as weak but if we are told we can’t do something we are the first to prove you wrong. There are ways we are weak, and that’s a lot of us show are emotions and that can get ourselves in trouble but we are very caring people. I believe that this would be a great article to use because people can totally disagree with me, don’t think a lot of women would but men would.
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