1. Feminist and Gender
Study of ‘Frankenstein’
Prepared by Khuman Bhagirath J.
Paper The Romantic Literature (EC-201)
Roll No. 08
Class M.A. Sem-II
Year 2011-12
Department of English, Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India
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2. Mary and Percy, Author and Editor
Newborn
Monstrous Victim of
agent of parental
destruction abandonment
• Parent’s failure towards her
• Husband’s Promethean self-absorption
• The patriarchal oppression of society
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3. Masculinity and Femininity in the
Frankenstein Family
• Gender and Parental Role, Ambiguous and
Transgressive
– Alphonse Frankenstein
– Henry Clerval
– Elizabeth Lavenza
– Victor Frankenstein
pale, confinement, on the very brink of
certainty I failed, my midnight labours,
unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, a
resistless and almost frantic impulse
urged me forward
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4. “I Am Thy Creature…”
• Victor’s refusal to parent
• Fear of reproductive power and
sexuality
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5. Source :
A Handbook of Critical Approaches
to Literature – Wilfred Guerin et al.
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