The Oppression Of Women In Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley was able to hide highlights of her own society into her book Frankenstein. In Shelley’s time, men never listened to women in society and rejected their ideas. This frustrated the women of Shelley’s time and would even be frustrating in today’s time. Women would fight back and Shelley wrote the book despite the social push not to. The Creature represents women in the aspect that they are both ignored and even put down in society. “The whole village was roused, some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons, I escaped…” (P. 94). The creature was abused and people ran from him, and this correctly represents what the women went through during that time. If one imagines being