Ragchaa Zaya Hwanhee Park Introduction to Academic Writing 22 October 2015 Feminist reading in Mary Shelley`s Frankenstein, or, Modern Prometheus This thesis examines female representation`s in Marry Shelley`s Frankenstein, or Modern Prometheus, because it is important in understanding of the reasons behind author`s motivation and choice. Marry Shelley was the daughter of one of the earliest feminist Mary Wollstonecraft who is best known for “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (1972), in which
advancement, of the ideas of equality for women (Mary Wollstonecraft Biography). It was in this influential, and radical era, that her ideas flourished to help shape what today is thought to be the norm. Mary pushed boundaries with her beliefs about female equality. It was because of her progressive, and even radical thoughts during the Age of Enlightenment on women’s rights and equality between men and women that today, nearly 350 years later we have the Equal Rights Amendment, also known as the
fatale, it is crucial to attempt to define it. The femme fatale exists through centuries of art, poetry and literature, for instance Shakespeare’s Cleopatra, but is most prominent in the mid to late nineteenth century literature. The mid- Victorian femme fatale is difficult to define or stereotype, she is a lot more complex and has many different sides to her than the vampires or she-devils characterised by late 19th century novelists. (Hedgecock, 2008) She is not a dangerous, treacherous woman and would