According to the postmodernists the author is dead. Beforehand, yes, the authorial intent is irrelevant. The author is not that important. So, whether an author intended a symbolic resonance to exist in his or her work is irrelevant. What matters is if that symbol is there and what the reader makes out of it. However, to decipher the mentioned symbol, it, by all means, is helpful to, for example know in which time the author lived and wrote the book, so the reader may have the tool to recognize that there is a symbol at all and what meaning this symbol may have carried at that time. As time changes and so people now understand something whole different under one thing as they did for example just 15 years ago. This helps in matters …show more content…
More importantly, making an author the central character of a novel is not a particularly helpful way to read it. So, reading Frankenstein as merely the authors way of dealing with her own issues would mean to miss great as well as terrible questions that occur throughout the book. The term “intentional fallacy” is used to describe the behavior of believing to know what the author was thinking when they wrote the book. For the following segment, the main sources used were The Cambridge Companion To Mary Shelley, edited by Esther Schor and A Life With Mary Shelley by Barbara Johnson. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, later Mary Shelley, was born on the 30th of August 1797, was the first daughter of the famous anarchist writer William Godwin and the second daughter of early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. The latter died, just eleven days after giving birth to Mary Godwin Wollstonecraft and although the labor was not difficult, the afterbirth turned out to be more complicated than expected. Her death had an enormous impact on Mary Shelley, so for one, looking at Frankenstein from a biographical point of view, one of many interpretations could be that Frankenstein is a story of a monstrous and disastrous