Frankeinstein in Context

Rigoberto Vidaña
Cline
ENG102
16 October 2011

   Frankenstein: social and cognitive ideas that influenced Shelley writing

One of the main reasons that moved victor to create “the monster” was curiosity, the search for information, and of course the fantasy of exceeding the human limits is what this book presents. In the other hand it seems that Marry Shelley touches different feminine subjects in a subtle manner. Subtle as it was, femininity and reproduction was a reoccurring theme through Marry Shelley novel Frankenstein.  Marry Shelley’s beliefs are focused on the aspects of a female being innocent, dependent and unpredictable.  She portrays these characteristics through the women in the novel being weak, emotional and only useful to the procreation of future generations.

             Although Mary Shelly’s mother was a strong feminist, she herself believed that a women’s place was to be subordinate and dependent on male figures.  In the letter to Victor from his mother she explains that Elizabeth cannot coupe without him, “Come, dearest Victor; you alone can console Elizabeth. She weeps continually, and accuses herself unjustly as the cause of his death; her words pierce my heart. We are all unhappy; but will not that be an additional motive for you, my son, to return and be our comforter” (Shelley 45), after the death her son.   Even in paintings of Frankenstein’s mother, that his father had commissioned, his mother was depicted as dependent upon her father, “It was an historical subject, painted at my father’s desire, and represented Caroline Beaufort in an agony of despair, kneeling by the coffin of her dead father” (Shelley 49).  These almost insignificant portrayals of women really capture the way Mary Shelley believed refined women should act in accordance to femininity. 

            Innocence is a strong characteristic of femininity. 

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Summary of a Critical Response

In the Analysis that Marilyn Butler performs on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein she starts mentioning that the book Invites speculation due to the fact that the authors opens the podium for different interpretations, for example she was mentioning that Frankenstein could be interpreted as the Mad scientist, or a man who wants to have a baby without a women. After reading this book it’s seems that she is making a good point, the book does not exactly specify the entire reasons that drove the creator of Frankenstein. 

She also describes how the author was influenced by several other Writers.  I believe the controversy that Mary Shelly created with her masterpiece kept this book alive for centuries, but also this masterpiece has been criticized by media. The 1818 Frankenstein, which had drawn nourishment, energy, importance from lectures and journals, had lived by the media, and after a year might well have died by the media due to the public controversy that it created. And in fact like Marilyn said this was not created by Marry Shelly’s ideas but by the assumptions and ideas that the readers had, that Frankenstein became a substantially different and less contentious novel when reissued in popular from in 1831.

We tend to acquire ideas and protocols from other people, and is like a natural manner. And in this case Butler was pointing out that the friendship of Shelly’s physician who was William Lawrence had a big influence in her writing accuracy instead of speculation in scientific matters. In fact Lawrence contributed for a portion and ideas that Shelly presented.   

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Blog post # 6

There has been moments in which my lack of time interferes with the revision and edition of a paper. And instead of paying more attention into editing the essay I tend to spend more valuable time correcting the spelling and grammar rather than the entire structure and flow of the essay. This has become a problem, because a paper without a revision tends to be tedious and disorganized.

            My writing process began with a clear idea of the assignment, I really need to re-read the assignment requirements in order to get a clear description of what needs to be accomplished . If it is a research paper that I need to write, I began by looking for more than five web documents or articles that relate to my research topic. If it is a poem analysis I read the poem at least three times, looking for key words and for the main authors idea that would aloud me to comprehend the poem even better. After doing my free write and rough draft I start by revising my paper by reading it over and over again until it makes sense for me. Sometimes I procrastinate leaving revision for the next day, that also brings me some problem because revision is a key process in which I can refocus on the main topic of my essay. I try to keep in mind the idea that my paper can always be improved, I can always go back and reshape those ideas in order to make much more clear statements. After I have done those steps I try to go to the learning center so I can improve the Essay.

            For this Essay I'm planning to apply certain techniques that I wasn't putting in use. First of all I'm going to be focused on the theme and the logistic of the paper I know that a paper without those elements becomes tedious, Im also willing to revise it over and over at least five times before I turn it in. While revising my previews essays I realize that sometimes I don't have a Clear title that captures attention, and finally I need to work in my grammar and spelling.

I also found a Web page that can help anyone who wants to improve An essay: http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/revise.html

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