Similarities Between Frankenstein And The Birthmark

Scientist play a huge role in society, they help generates knowledge and understanding about the world that we live in. However, to achieve their goals, they are willing to do anything, even if that mean harming others. Similar to Frankenstein and The Birthmark, the author created a scientist who is willing to kill others for science. For Example, in Frankenstein, Victor use science to create life from death but ends up killing those who were closest to him. While in The Birthmark Aylmer tries to get rid of his wife’s birthmark with science but resulted in killing her himself.

Imagine a world where scientific regulations saved millions of people’s lives as well as strengthened the relations between countries by preventing the creation of the atomic bomb. This is the world that is being advocated for in both Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein as well as Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, “The Birthmark”. In Shelley’s novel, Victor decides that he must make the perfect creation to join human beings on earth after discovering how to give life to inanimate objects through scientific exploration, but he realizes that his creation is imperfect after it is completed and tries to abandon it. Victor’s creation eventually finds him and becomes his tormentor since the creation, as an act of revenge for being created, seeks to destroy Victor’s friends and family. In Hawthorne’s short story, the renowned scientist Aylmer decides to get rid of the birthmark that is preventing his wife from being perfect by creating a substance using his knowledge gained from years of work in his laboratory. Although the substance initially appears to be working, his wife’s health drastically diminishes as more of the birthmark disappears and Aylmer’s wife eventually dies when the birthmark completely disappears from her face. Both Frankenstein and “The Birthmark” show that Victor and Aylmer’s knowledge through scientific development lead to an understanding of nature that allows the two to have the power to benefit humanity. However, both texts ultimately reveal that the power

The reason why this film was so appealing to an audience in the United States during the early years of the great depression deals with what the monster represented. To an audience, the monster represents themselves and their struggles against wealth capitalists. This is a very Freudian thought because; the fictional tale of Frankenstein might have brought out this uncanny feeling that the story on screen was the story of their situation during the depression. In a sense, audiences of 1931 would have seen the monster as easily identifiable with the working man. By contrast, Dr. Frankenstein could be identified and characterized as the upper class, which creates a sense of class structure in the film.

The women in Frankenstein are gentle, submissive, one dimensional characters. ● Both Elizabeth and Caroline Beaufort are personified versions of docility, charity, and duty. Not only are they emotional fragile, but they are also physical fragile. ● Similarly, all of the women are maternal figures. When Caroline dies, Elizabeth takes over the responsibility of caring for her family.

The characters Elizabeth and Georgina support the theme that a woman’s only purpose is to care for others. Men are viewed as being the head of the household and supporting his family, while the women of the household are responsible to care for the children and do the household chores. Women are looked down upon by men because they are seen as not being useful to society, which supports the theme that women are seen as being disposable. In the book Frankenstein, when Victor was five years old

In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, some blatant parallels are made between Dr. Frankenstein's adopted sister, Elizabeth, and the monster he created. Both of these innocent creatures, together represent all of mankind in their similarities and differences, Elizabeth being the picture of womanhood and goodness, the monster representing manhood and evil. Both Elizabeth and the monster belong to and structure their lives in terms of Dr. Frankenstein, leading to overall destruction and, ultimately demonstrating the dangerous properties of patriarchy, which Dr. Frankenstein embodies.

Can you imagine Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein, the great work of literature, without, for example, such female characters as Mrs. Margaret Saville, Elizabeth Lavenza, and Justine Moritz? In this case the novel will have no meaning. All the women help to develop the plot, and without them Frankenstein will lose its spirit. Although these heroines have a lot in common in their characters: they are all strong-willed, kind, careful, and selfless, at the same time, each of them is unique, and each plays her own role in the novel. Mrs. Margaret Saville is the woman to whom the narrator tells the story. Elizabeth Lavenza is the beloved of Victor Frankenstein. Justine Moritz is the heroine who is accused by mistake of murdering

Elizabeth frequently makes sacrifices for the Frankenstein family from early childhood all the way until her death. She assumes the role of womanhood at a young age after Caroline 's death. Rather than living out her days of childhood, she comes almost a mother figure to Victor and his younger brothers. While Victor is allowed to seize opportunities to travel and further his education, Elizabeth instead stays in Geneva (Shelley, 23).

Mary Shelley, the writer of Frankenstein glorifies a woman as hope and calls a man as a destroyer. It's clearly to know that Shelley is a woman and she writes about this topic through her viewpoints. She sets the characteristic of Elizabeth characters like an angel who animates and brings the happiness to the family. According to the scene that Victor mentioned about Elizabeth character "The saintly soul of Elizabeth shone like a shrine-dedicated lamp in our peaceful home." (p.31) it indicates that Shelley wanted to show how the soul of woman can be a hope for the human. In contrast, Shelley appoints Victor as a creator who destroyed feelings and soul of his creature. It signifies that she appreciates the soul of a woman than a man just because she is a woman. So, the bias about the gender of the writer in the novel like this can make it be the greatest novel of all

As the perception of women changes constantly, society is the only factor in creating their ideal image. These societal views are the basis of their treatment, with the expectation that it is beneficial for them. However, societal expectations of women in the Elizabethan and Victorian eras severely limit their freedoms and rights. William Shakespeare’s Othello and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein portray most women in their typical roles. Both authors depict the level of injustice in society’s treatment of women through the passivity of women causing their deaths, the silencing of vulnerable women and the portrayal of women as more humane than men.

Gender inequality will always affect the portrayal of women in society, the weaker, unnecessary, and other sex. It is not just a subject of the past, and still holds a name in society. However in the olden eras, the way women were treated and looked at was in a much harsher condition. In Shakespeare’s Othello and Shelley’s Frankenstein, women’s roles in the books are solely based on the way they are treated in their time period. The portrayal of women in these books demonstrate that they can never be in the same standing as men and therefore will never have the same respect as them. In both Othello and Frankenstein women are treated as property, used to better men’s social standards, and lack a voice, which demonstrates that in

One such aspect of Shelley’s life portrayed in the novel was the role of women in society. In general, the predominant contenders in literature in the Romantic era were men. Mary Shelley, who was tutored by her father, had to publish her novel anonymously because it would not have been accepted otherwise. In Romantic literature, women were depicted as passive with a sense for nature and intuition. This can be seen in Frankenstein during Victor’s description of Elizabeth Lavenza: “While I admired...pretension” (Volume I, Chapter I, p 39). This quote can be viewed as an oppression of women due to the patriarchal structure of the language, as well as an emphasis on the nature of women. Mary Shelley also criticizes this oppression, but does not criticize overtly. This may be due to the fact that Shelley read her mother’s works as a child, and was influenced by the pro-feminist ideals that her mother advocated for. In addition, Frankenstein, at its core, is an expression of Shelley’s political viewpoints. The years 1811 to 1817 were ones of severe deprivation and hardship for the new working class created by the Industrial

In contrast, male counterparts travel and study at their leisure. The aspect clearly comes out when Frankenstein goes to study while Elizabeth remains at home taking care of the family. Elizabeth is not given any choice of pursuing studies. Clerval also joins Frankenstein in studying. Men seem to be the only ones who can partake in education. Women, on the other hand, are confined to the home and domestic duties. Some places in the world, particularly the Muslim-dominated regions, discourage women’s education while supporting early childhood marriages. Shelly’s perspective of women is also that of submissive passiveness, and they only play a supportive role to the men. Softness and gentleness are qualities that are admirable in a woman in this society. The ideal can be seen in Frankenstein’s description of Elizabeth:

Elizabeth is the only female character to appear in all three volumes of the novel. She is also the cousin, and wife to Frankenstein’s main character Victor. She embodies every characteristic of femininity and the female gender described by Wollstonecraft. This description of Elizabeth is “She was docile and good tempered, yet gay and playful as a summer insect.”. (Shelley, Pg. 20) That was Victor’s description of Elizabeth when they were children; she remains that way throughout the entirety of the novel. That quotation easily supports Wollstonecraft’s argument that women are taught from infancy that they are to remain docile. The description describes Elizabeth as being