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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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Most Romantic novels reflect the hegemonic attitudes of the nineteenth-century Britain; the Western society at the time depicted the Oriental women as exotic and the Oriental culture as inferior and incompetent. Frankenstein, just like many novels from the Romantic era, has also taken part in the misleading representation of the Orient. After a thorough reading of, Frankenstein, I found the part in which Mary Shelley´s creature depicts the Orient the most interesting one. Therefore, the essay will discuss the work of Mary Shelley´s Frankenstein from the postcolonial theory and biographical criticism approaches. Accordingly, the essay draws upon the primary source as well as secondary sources such as journal articles, published essays etc.
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