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Women ("The Handmaid's Tale" (no freedom " it was…
Women
"The Handmaid's Tale"
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A dystopia always exists inside a utopia. By presenting a dystopian world Atwood hints on what a utopia might look like. "Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse for some" (p.211)
Frankenstein shows how a world without women would look. VF creates the Creature without a woman, causing the deaths of many innocent people
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'workshop of my filthy creation' this emphasises the unnatural manner in which the monster is given 'birth' to.
The female characters in the novel are all sidelined and peripheral to the plot. Shelley seems to be underlining the male domination of society and to demonstrate its perils.
In Frankenstein, pregnancy would be mirrored in Frankenstein and his process of creation
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Frankenstein rejects his creation after it is born, just as some mothers do, known as postpartum depression
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the monster is uneducated, just like many women were at the time
due to his lack of education and not his virtues and his personality the monster becomes aggressive and violent
this connects to feminist arguments and Mary Wollenscrofts arguments that women are virtuous and have souls however a lack of education leads to their more primal state which men use to argue that women are lesser to them, perpetuating patriarchy
Nature is personified and represented as female "I pursued nature to her hiding places" (p.52). Hinting on sexual violence and highlighting the oppression of women in society.
the monster asks victor to make him a woman as if she is a commodity, he does not assume she may be any different from what he wants or may have her own individual reaction, only Victor thinks of this
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