Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has been discussed in the various topics-such as Female Gothic, Imperialism, language and psychological analysis and so on. And yet, a feminist re-reading is the most dominant perspective among these theories. This thesis is a study of monster's otherness in Mary Shelley'...
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has been discussed in the various topics-such as Female Gothic, Imperialism, language and psychological analysis and so on. And yet, a feminist re-reading is the most dominant perspective among these theories. This thesis is a study of monster's otherness in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Victor Frankenstein, the creator of the monster in the novel is regarded as the sYmbol of patriarchy. His desire to create a life using scientific knowledge can be considered as a challenge to God's authority. He imitates God's creative power without deep-thinking of its result so that he puts his creature into the society and makes it live its life as an outcast. The wandering monster without a name is identified with the woman's place in the androcentric society. In that social structure, hardly are women constructed as independent human beings. Many women have never prepared for their subjectivity and they have failed to have their own identities. Thus, the monster's alienated place is paralleled with the marginalized, or absent place of woman. Monster's efforts to become a social man end up in failure and the split and suffering are caused by the patriarchal discourse. Thus, this paper focuses on retracting the silent, hidden, and oppressed woman's voice through monster's narratives. Male charaters are relatively much freer than feamle ones in the imagiantion, subjetivity, and territory expansion. This paper points out that the monster's gender is so ambiguous that we can't exactly define its gender. The diffculty to define its gender and its possible representations as a drag are very important. In the biological fact, the monster is apparently a man, but his power is castrated by the norms of patriarchy. It's his body that represents the woman's split subject on the male-dominated stage. In Victor's narratives, it tells us how women are subjugated and controlled by the knife of science, a tool of patriarchy. Plus, it reveals female characters' voicelessness and the narrow perversion of social institution. Additionally, in the monster's story-telling, it mentions his failure to gain identity in human body form and language acquistion. In the part of the incomplete monster's mate, it explains how the patriarchal power structure is maintained and hold out. The monster expects to get over the body complex and learns a language very passionately. He doesn't realize that the deep-rooted, unconscious ideology is embodied in human gaze and language. As he tries to find his place in the society, he feels extremely alone and isolated. The monster's demand to Victor to create a female mate has political and subversive significances. He struggles over prejudice against his deformity and he at last succeeds to make Victor listen to him. His demand has a limit to imitate the human society. In the other hand, it cracks open the possibility of the equal community out of the patriarchal society. Walton's letters account for the beginning and ending of story. Regardless of the short amount, his position in the frame story leads to the implicit conclusion. In the beginning, Walton treats Victor as a real, great brother(or companion). At the end of the novel, he changes his attitude toward the monster(or Victor). The Walton's change in the third point-view narration implies the feminist message constructed through monster's voice.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has been discussed in the various topics-such as Female Gothic, Imperialism, language and psychological analysis and so on. And yet, a feminist re-reading is the most dominant perspective among these theories. This thesis is a study of monster's otherness in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Victor Frankenstein, the creator of the monster in the novel is regarded as the sYmbol of patriarchy. His desire to create a life using scientific knowledge can be considered as a challenge to God's authority. He imitates God's creative power without deep-thinking of its result so that he puts his creature into the society and makes it live its life as an outcast. The wandering monster without a name is identified with the woman's place in the androcentric society. In that social structure, hardly are women constructed as independent human beings. Many women have never prepared for their subjectivity and they have failed to have their own identities. Thus, the monster's alienated place is paralleled with the marginalized, or absent place of woman. Monster's efforts to become a social man end up in failure and the split and suffering are caused by the patriarchal discourse. Thus, this paper focuses on retracting the silent, hidden, and oppressed woman's voice through monster's narratives. Male charaters are relatively much freer than feamle ones in the imagiantion, subjetivity, and territory expansion. This paper points out that the monster's gender is so ambiguous that we can't exactly define its gender. The diffculty to define its gender and its possible representations as a drag are very important. In the biological fact, the monster is apparently a man, but his power is castrated by the norms of patriarchy. It's his body that represents the woman's split subject on the male-dominated stage. In Victor's narratives, it tells us how women are subjugated and controlled by the knife of science, a tool of patriarchy. Plus, it reveals female characters' voicelessness and the narrow perversion of social institution. Additionally, in the monster's story-telling, it mentions his failure to gain identity in human body form and language acquistion. In the part of the incomplete monster's mate, it explains how the patriarchal power structure is maintained and hold out. The monster expects to get over the body complex and learns a language very passionately. He doesn't realize that the deep-rooted, unconscious ideology is embodied in human gaze and language. As he tries to find his place in the society, he feels extremely alone and isolated. The monster's demand to Victor to create a female mate has political and subversive significances. He struggles over prejudice against his deformity and he at last succeeds to make Victor listen to him. His demand has a limit to imitate the human society. In the other hand, it cracks open the possibility of the equal community out of the patriarchal society. Walton's letters account for the beginning and ending of story. Regardless of the short amount, his position in the frame story leads to the implicit conclusion. In the beginning, Walton treats Victor as a real, great brother(or companion). At the end of the novel, he changes his attitude toward the monster(or Victor). The Walton's change in the third point-view narration implies the feminist message constructed through monster's voice.
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