Queer Theory Frankenstein

The term Gothic fiction and the Queer Theory refers to a style of writing that is characterized by elements of fear, horror, death, and gloom, as well as Romantic elements such as nature, individuality, and very high emotion. Mary Shelley the author of Frankenstein uses a highly intelligent young man, Victor Frankenstein who gets trapped into the world to chemistry, anatomy, and natural science after many tragic events in his life shadows himself from society. Mary Shelley also uses the character Frankenstein to introduce the Queer theory, which is a writing theory authors use, especially during the 1800s pertaining to a homosexual character. In the gothic fictional novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the novel introduces a controversial topic

Shelley shows Frankenstein after the death of his own mother as if it has no affect on him as a human being, all Frankenstein does after his mother death is go back to university. “My mother was dead, but we had still duties which we ought to perform; … My departure for Ingolstadt” ( Shelley 45). Frankenstein describes that after his mother death life must go on, with is true but the rate which he got over her death. It was as if it did not even phase Frankenstein. On the other hand, when Henry Clerval was strangled to death by the creature Frankenstein was far more affected in every way. “‘when I saw the lifeless form of Henry Clerval stretched before me. I gasped for breath; and throwing myself on the body… A fever succeeded to. I lay for two months on the point of death… I called myself the murderer of William, Justine, and of Serval, my friend, my benefactor-”’(Shelley 181). Frankenstein describes that the death of Henry Clerval, who is perceived as just a close “friend” almost kills him and brings to make him hallucinate so much that Frankenstein confesses to three murders he in fact did not commit but the creature did. Malaya Nordyke writes in the Writersalon, “the death of Victor’s mother may have made a radical impression on Victor’s perception of women. … the incident may have made Victor subconsciously relate women to weakness and death. His fear of feeling the loss that he felt from the death of his mother may have turned him away from women in general, thus driving him to create a model of stability, which to him meant male.” (Nordyke). Nordyke is tries to explain Frankenstein behavior after his mother dead may have been the cause of him becoming gay and acting the reason Frankenstein did when Henry