Title: The Abjection Revealed through the Perspective of Frankenstein’s Monster: Explicated through Jen-yi Hsu’s work “Gothic sublime, Negative Transcendence, and the Politics of Abjection: Woman Writer and Her Monster in Frankenstein.”
Query:
Within Jen-yi Hsu’s article “Gothic sublime, Negative Transcendence, and the Politics of Abjection: Woman Writer and Her Monster in Frankenstein,” he asserts that by applying Julia Kristeva’s definition of what she considers abjection, the monster from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein aggregates all forms of the abject.
Furthermore, while all of the points that Hsu states are justifiable, they are common subjects that many have brought to attention when demonstrating Mary Shelley’s monster as a form of abjection, and therefore, many overlook other elements that equally represent the monster in this way. One such example (which is depicted in Hsu’s article) is when the topic of Victor’s feelings of both repugnance and obsession towards the labors he undertakes to create this monster clearly expresses the abject being used
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While this is indeed a true and major topic of Julia Kristeva’s definition of abjection, it neglects the fact that it is also by the monster’s own repugnance and horror at being a creature constructed from such detestable objects (the corpses) that signify it as being something that disrupts order (disruption of its self-identity) that also depicts the monster as representing the abject. This paper will explore how Frankenstein’s monster represents forms of abjection through the monster’s own perspectives and feelings about his existence, situation, and creator that many neglects to mention as seen through the work if Jen-yi