Greatest Assertion In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Greatest Assertion Spivak’s most convincing assertion comes from her claim that Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a novel brimming with the potential of a feminist reading, which becomes clearer the more heavily you decipher the text. Spivak states, “In conclusion, I shall look briefly at Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a text of nascent feminism that remains cryptic, I think, simply because it does not speak the language of feminist individualism which we have come to hail as the language of high feminism within English literature.” (7777). Written by a women, Mary Shelley, the red flags of this cryptic reading are made clear by Spivak’s analysis. Spivak initially redirects the struggle of the narrative from man versus God, to that of Man vs Women (in terms of creation) and women could easily be transferred with Mother Nature. Mary gives the men in the narrative egotistical personalities which result in Hubris which the central character of the story, Victor Frankenstein, succumbs to by crafting life without the aid of women. In the process of crafting a feminine creature Frankenstein begins to assume

This alienation of the women characters seems to be an intentional, artistic, narrative tool to symbolically call to her feminist intentions. In a reading of her novel, it is stated, that Shelley referred to that “creature” of Frankenstein as Adam, the first man in the Hebrew text of the Bible. This telling mirrors Frankenstein’s description of the possibility of creating a female creature, as Frankenstein is filled with caution Mary Shelley describes the “labeled” Adam, humanities first man, as of the creature found in the novel which is described by numerous titles from “wretched” to