Feminism

Feminism

1. Focuses on:

   • Differences between Men and Women
   • Women in positions of power
   • What it means to be a Woman

2. Exclusion of women in literature and society

3. Male language

4. Evolving and adapting

5. Why is womens writing being devalued or ignored?

6. Patriachal Society: Wheres a womans place and who is the Modern Woman?

7. Frankenstein

   • We never hear the from the perspective of a Woman, only Male perspectives
   • Walton ignores his sisters advice and only his letters to her are shown
   • Shelley’s writing was influenced majorly by her mother Mary Wollstonecraft
   • Women are portrayed as passive, they are the ideal symbol of domesticity
   • When making the female monster Victor fears her, he fears that she will not be submissive and will have female autonomy
   • It is the absence of a female that triggers the chain of events that takes place in Frankenstein
   • The feminist politics of the novel is in the decision to create a ‘masculine mode of reproduction’: he creates the male creature, he created and uncreated the female monster
   • This text is all about asking questions not finding the answers

8. The Bloody Chamber