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Shared on Mon, 03/26/2007 - 20:06The bit today is from wikipedia
A common critique views the story as a journey of pregnancy. The novel taps into the widespread fears of stillborn births and maternal deaths due to complications in delivery - Shelley had suffered a stillborn birth in the prior year, and her mother had died due to complications from her birth. Frankenstein -- the Monster's parent, in a sense -- is fearful of the release of the Monster from his control, when it is free to act independently in the world and affect it for better or worse. Also, during much of the novel Victor fears the creature's desire to destroy him by killing everyone and everything most dear to him. However it must be noted that the creature was not born evil, but only wanted to be loved by its creator, by other humans, and to love a sentient creature like itself. It was mankind who taught it evil: Victor rejected it, and the creature's poor treatment by villagers taught it how to be evil. In this reading, the creature represents the natural fears of bringing a new innocent life into the world and raising it properly so that it does not become a monster.
A common critique views the story as a journey of pregnancy. The novel taps into the widespread fears of stillborn births and maternal deaths due to complications in delivery - Shelley had suffered a stillborn birth in the prior year, and her mother had died due to complications from her birth. Frankenstein -- the Monster's parent, in a sense -- is fearful of the release of the Monster from his control, when it is free to act independently in the world and affect it for better or worse. Also, during much of the novel Victor fears the creature's desire to destroy him by killing everyone and everything most dear to him. However it must be noted that the creature was not born evil, but only wanted to be loved by its creator, by other humans, and to love a sentient creature like itself. It was mankind who taught it evil: Victor rejected it, and the creature's poor treatment by villagers taught it how to be evil. In this reading, the creature represents the natural fears of bringing a new innocent life into the world and raising it properly so that it does not become a monster.
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