Frankenstein The Monster's Mother Analysis

It is believed by many readers and scholars like Ellen Moers, who wrote Female Gothic: The Monster’s Mother that when Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly wrote Frankenstein, she wrote the story as a reflection of her own fears and issues with parenting. I also think that Shelley may have felt that her offspring were somehow against the laws of nature and that this is why most of them died at birth or in early infancy. I think that Shelley brought death from what should have been life from the part where Victor only had created life from the confines of death. In Shelley’s real life, her mother died during the labor and I believe this is also reflected in her role as the creature where it destroys the man who created it because she may feel resposible
It is his arrogance that brings about the deaths of his friends and family and finally his own downfall at the hands of his creation. Furthermore, Victor continually refuses to ask for help in regards to dealing with the creature, which is a flaw that haunts him throughout the story. This is because he feels as though he can handle the situation on his own. However, Victor’s experiment was not just performed on any dead body, it was performed on a creature that he created out of an accumulation of different people. This shows how arrogant he is as he felt that he could give life to the ideal man. The problem with Victor’s plan is that he did not take into account what gives a person a look of life. Victor may be able to animate the creature but he was not able to bring life to the already decayed flesh. This is why the skin on the creature looked sallow and translucent over the bones and veins of the creatures face. His eyes also had a cloudy look because there was no soul behind them.
That is where Victor made his biggest mistake in his desire to play god. He thought that just giving something life was enough to make it human, but he forgot or did not consider that humans are believed to have souls. These souls are said to be who we truly are as a person and the soul is reflected in or need to breathe. This is why a person is declared dead when they stop to breathe on their own. Victor
Instead, the moment he realized that the creature did not turn out to be the beautiful, majestic lifeform that he had envisioned, he chose to walk away from it. This is of course contradictory to the actions of most parents. In his role of both creator and life bringer, Victor is playing dual roles as both mother and father to the creature. However, instead of taking responsibility for his creation he rushes from the laboratory at the mere sight of the creature. He abandons him to his fate without any concern about how this abandonment would affect both the creature and