Negative Self-Image: Orientalism In Frankenstein

Negative Self-Image: Orientalism Reading in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Frankenstein is one of popular science-fiction in the early 19th century. A novel written by Mary Shelley , she is started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley 's name appears on the second edition, published in France in 1823. A novel is about Victor Frankenstein who try his an unusual scientific experiment. From his experiment, making a gigantic creature that shortly afterwards he fears and he hates. Because of the appearance of this being is scary so then Frankenstein’s monster become rejected by Frankenstein his self and the people. When the monster travel to find a place and people that can accept him the way he is. I read this story especially on Frankenstein’s monster perspective, I saw there is subjective view on East on characters Safie and her father (Arabian). So I’ll choose to analyze it by Postcolonial approach: Orientalism.
I think it can be caused large influence for the reader when realize about Eastern culture is so primitive and cruel. Safie describe as a passive Arabian women, who clearly dependent on her religion and the culture of her nation. In the “third-world”, feminist ideology is shown less to the woman because that is subordinated by patriarchal system which is ingrained in their culture and power in their country. Can be seen the difference between safie and European community, when she was involved in much pressure from patriarchal system ( her father ) and system in her society ( Arab ). But Safie’s action show that she does not like her family tradition and religion of her time. Political, cultural, and Arabian religion shaping her mind increasingly to pay attention to the domestic ideology of the