Frankenstein Critics Flashcards
Joseph Kestner
‘this triple embedding illuminates the similarities among the three protagonists’
Mary Poovey
Liberating the creature ‘condemns the creature to perpetual isolation and, therefore, to permanent incompleteness’
Anne K Mellor
‘a violent penetration and usurpation of the females hiding places’
‘ Mary Shelley’s novel thus portrays the penalties of raping nature’
‘nature pursues victor Frankenstein with the very lightning he has stolen’
Gilbert and Goubar
Birth myth and post-natal depression
James Holt McGraven
Masculine need to dominate combines with strong homophobic feelings and leads to creation of creature.
Robert Kidd
‘temptation and transgression are the central motifs of the gothic’
George Levine
‘the hero and the antagonist are one’
MA Goldberg
Both Walton and Victor ‘sin, not against god, but against the moral and social order’
