FRANKENSTEIN as Mary Shelley In the dramatic story, Frankenstein, one man’s search for the creation of a human being is depicted. This book, by Mary Shelly, is a Gothic story whose primary characters are all male and there is no central protagonist. However, it may be considered a « feminine novel », for there are many subtexts in the story of Frankenstein that have to do with reproducing human life, and giving birth. As we analyse …showed first 75 words of 1054 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1054 total…a mother and giving birth to a child. BIBLIOGRAPHY Moers, Ellen. “Female Gothic.” The Endurance of “Frankenstein”: Essays on Mary Shelley’s Novel. Ed. George Levine and U.C. Knoepflmacher. Berkely: University of California Press, 1974. 77-87. Mellor, Anne K. “Possessing Nature : The Female in Frankenstein.” Frankenstein. By Mary Shelley. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1996. 274-286. Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein, The Modern Prometheus ( the 1818 version). Edited by D.L. Macdonald & Kathleen Scherf. Pterborough: Broadview Press, 1998.