Examples Of Paranoia In Frankenstein

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Paranoia of Victor Frankenstein Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a direct correlation to the males of the specific time period which she lived in. Shelley lived in a society that valued male domination over women’s rights. Women were looked at as less then and that they had no other right except for to be a wife and a mother. This story provides facts about how a patriarchal society was intimidated by the idea of women's independence. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor violates nature, steals reproductive abilities from women, and endangers the lives of his female loved ones. Victor Frankenstein violates nature in a way that portrays how he feels and treats women. Nature is looked at as being a female because of the way it acts and moves. …show more content…

Frankenstein states, “There is no reason that the race of immortal beings, he hoped to propagate should not be exclusively male” (Mellor 355). The true cause of why Victor does not want a female creature is because he is coming from a patriarchal society and does not want any female to be independent. He is afraid of what women can do if they were to speak out and stand up for themselves. Victor is terrified of women who are free to make their own choices and that are sexually liberated. According to Rousseau, “She might assert her own integrity and the revolutionary right to determine her own existence.” Female independence threatens the male society Victor wants to have with no females. Victor is concerned that when he makes a female creature, she will be uglier than his male creature. The male creature wants a female companion because he is alone in society. Frankenstein fears that she will be so ugly that he will leave her which will continue the cycle of alienation, which will soon turn to murder. Also, he was afraid that the female creature will mate with human beings. Frankenstein believes the female creature will be power hungry and will seize and rape the male she might choose. Lastly, Victor Frankenstein is paranoid about the reproductive abilities the female creature may have, that can lead to similar creatures being produced (Mellor

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