Naomi Hetherington Research Paper

Professor Naomi Hetherington is a faculty member of Lifelong Learning Institute. She has a bachelor degree in Theology and Religious Studies from Newnham College Cambridge. She got a master’s degree in Victorian Literature at Manchester and a Ph.D. from Southampton. She received a Birkbeck Distinguished Teaching and Scholarship Award for her contribution to literacy education. Hetherington’s research interests are 19th and nearly 20th centuries literature and culture, religion, gender, sexuality history of feminism, the popular Victorian fiction, and the literary new woman. Hetherington has written three books, that is, rethinking the history of feminism, religion and sexuality and Amy Levy: Critical Essay co-edited with Nadia Valman. All the three books are literature oriented which gives her an edge when it comes to critiquing any literature work.
When Herrington is critiquing Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein book, her interest in the 19th-century literature comes into play. Hetherington looks at the story and expresses on how a high achiever tries to achieve things that only God can. Her interest in religion is also well shown as she expresses how a man has limited abilities in comparison to God who can create a human being. She talks about the how at the end the high

Frankenstein states that all his speculation and hopes were nothing and compared himself to the archangel who aspired omnipotence and said he was chained to eternal hell. Frankenstein portrayal is that no matter what anyone thinks does not matter as he is destined to be damned. Frankenstein also states that secrets cause suffering to the ones we love dearly. He also realizes the simplicity of life and love are what matters. Consequently, Hetherington shows that there is a limitation to what a man can achieve and hence man should not be an over achiever and try to achieve what is theoretically impossible. (Hetherington,