Frankenstein: Mary Shelley’s lost paradise

Abstract

This paper seeks to attempt feminist analysis of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley focusing on how gender, motherhood, and the mingling powers of creating ostensively manifest in the text. Within the frame of reference of feminist theory, the text is read to reflect patriarchal anxieties over the early 19th century female agency and reproduction, coupled with female intellectual independence. In fact, Shelley has constructed a character-defying technology when using Victor Frankenstein as a