Representation of men in ‘Frankenstein’

2.  Frankenstein is a novel
written by English
author Mary Shelley
about eccentric
scientist Victor
Frankenstein, who
creates a grotesque
but sentient creature
in an unorthodox
scientific experiment.

3.  Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley (30 August
1797 – 1 February
1851) was an English
novelist, short story
writer, dramatist,
essayist, biographer,
and travel writer,
best known for
her Gothic novel
‘Frankenstein’.

4. Male characters

5.  There are some male characters in Mary
Shelley's modern Prometheus or Frankenstein.
While reading ‘Frankenstein’ one cannot, or
someone notice that some male characters
equally with female seem to have passive
role.
 Male characters are criticize because of their
passivity.
 They blamed in the novel for the reason of
passive role of women and not paying
attention to the other circumstances.

6. •Male characters in ‘Frankenstein’ are
more developed that those of the
females.
• In Frankenstein, almost every level in
the character tree there is a dominant
male character that play a significant
role in the plot.
• It is clear that Mary Shelley is
projecting through Frankenstein what
she thought the typical man of the
early 1800s.