Frankenstein Articles!

When you read the book Frankenstein you think it’s going to be 
about a big scare green monster because that’s what you have read all 
your life but reading Mary Shelley Frankenstein it’s totally different. 
When I first started reading it I keep reading about the power of women 
and the history women have faced. Women were not these powerful 
people back then, we were treated as house wives and that’s all we 
were good at. We couldn’t vote and we sure couldn’t join the military 
because that was a man’s job. Today it’s a lot better; there are things 
woman can’t do but women are showing that they can do whatever 
a man can.
               In this book there are a couple articles that are about women, 
like the article on page 214 to 224 called Female Gothic: The Monster’s 
Mother by Ellen Moers. It’s about a female writer who writes about the
 work women writers have done in the literary mode that since the eighteenth 
century we have called the Gothic. Gothic writing is not easily stated except
 that is has to do with fear. Gothic writing is seen as scare and a lot of people 
really don’t understand it but writers aren’t trying to scare the reader it’s just 
fantasy. These kinds of stories make some people not to want to put them 
down, people can read a story they really like which maybe 250 or 500 
words in just two days. 
               In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries very few important 
women writers bore children most of them were spinsters and virgins. 
Mary Shelley had brought birth to fiction not as realism but as gothic 
fantasy. Women bring this creative side to books and they make people 
want to read them until there finished. Like Harry Potter these books
 and movies every child likes and waited in lines to see them or get 
them. It’s truly amazing to see some of these new books come out and
 you would mostly think there by a man but there not and there actually
 great books. These creative books these women can create can be on the 
best selling list for years.
               Another article that I read that states things about women is page 
271 to 273 called “The women of Frankenstein” by William Veeder. These 
one talks about Mary Shelley and the weakness in herself and womanhood 
makes her defensive in Frankenstein. She admitted that women are no more 
immune than men to weakness, she insists self-justifying that women are
 less weak. In this article it shows a lot of signs that women are weak when 
Justine goes to court to talk about things that happened. She is scared but 
I think everyone in this world would be scared to go in front of someone 
and talk about things that have happen. Maybe what happened totally 
scared her and when she talks about it, it being back memories. 
               You can’t judge someone from what they are on the outside 
you haven’t see what’s in the inside to fully understand the person. 
Women seem like these fragile people that cry over a broken nail 
but so women really want to prove that they can do anything and go 
out of there way to make it happen. The book at times can be very
 depressing at some of the things it says, but it is
 also very true which truly is the sad part. Reading this I saw a lot
 of the history we already know by the way women have been 
treated and seen as. 
               This book Frankenstein is one of the most creative 
books I have read, at first I totally didn’t want to read it because it 
looked strange with all the little articles. After awhile I started to
 really enjoy it and it didn’t take me very long tofinish it. Some of 
the articles I read where really good to read and it made me 
think of women’s rights. Women were always seen as these powerless
 people and never got to do things that men did. We were always supposed
 to cook, clean and have children but people really didn’t see that women
 could do anythingmen could. From being in the military to writing books, 
to this today people think women can’t do anything but they seem 
to prove everyone wrong.



Work Citied: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley