Frankenstein is enormously important as a prototype for science fiction and as an early feminist Background of FrankensteinMary Shelley was born in 18th-century London to two influential Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, was a radical feminist who died after giving birth to Mary, and her father, William Godwin, raised her Mary left home at 16, married Percy Shelley after his first wife's suicide, and wrote Frankenstein in a writer's challenge from Lord Byron in 1816- The story, based on a horrendous vision, was composed during sweeping life Frankenstein was published anonymously in However, the story is enduring in its psychological drama, questions asked, and memorable The story has adapted to many forms, with each adaptation telling a very different version of Shelley's original Frankenstein is an advisory notice done up in gothic costume, warning post-industrial society about the explosion of scientific knowledge and its potential misapplication and the subsequent dehumanization of Much as the silent sci-fi film Metropolis warned of the need for labor unions, Frankenstein warned of the need for considered action in the use of knowledge, and the alienation in store for driven knowledge In Frankenstein, Shelley asks who exactly the real monster About the Novel: FrankensteinIn the beginning, D Frankenstein is rescued from an ice flow in the sea near the North P Chased through the Arctic by his Creature, Victor Frankenstein is saved by Captain Walton, who listens to the tale of the quest for knowledge--all gone Victor describes his childhood as a paradise, where his mother and father indulged But, his parents also failed to teach him reality, cause-and-effect, or the principles of With these deficiencies, he considered his adopted sister Elizabeth a possession that he married to Elizabeth could not help Victor overcome his addiction to creating a superhuman Victor achieved the goal of his addiction and was subsequently repulsed by Elizabeth was quite literally killed by his addiction as Victor's Creature destroyed everything that was dear to His parents had abandoned his soul in their enabling, and he abandoned his own creation without a name and without a Frankenstein reveals three generations of monsters--personified in Victor's mother, Victor, and the C In addition, Elizabeth was reduced to monster status in her treatment as an object, and Mary Shelley herself was a monster (an educated feminist) who could not put her name to her own Victor, the Creature, and Mary Shelley were all different from the mainstream society that rejected them as monstrous: a radical scientist, an inhuman creation, and a feminist without a Victor lost everyone of value, Shelley lost her mother at birth, and the Creature could not fit in The Creature's abandonment by parent and society is similar to that of the feminist for over two Feminists were scorned and abandoned as they obtained knowledge and subsequent power to participate more fully in As portrayed in Katja von Garnier's 2004 film Iron Jawed Angels, feminists were attacked, beaten, and shunned, just as was the Creature in F Shelley must have felt such abandonment and rejection, considering that her father educated her extensively, but she could not sign her own _htm