Mary Shelley & Ellen Moers
Creation and Abortion: The Creator's Dilemma in Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" as analyzed by Ellen Moers
In the essay, "Female Gothic: the Monster's Mother," author Ellen Moers provided a new perspective in interpreting Mary Shelley's Gothic cum science fiction novel, "Frankenstein." In the essay, she discussed the parallelisms between the Mary Shelley and the character of Victor Frankenstein, which she both considered as "creators." One parallelism that stands out in the lives of Shelley and Frankenstein is their being both creators and destructors of human life. The 'creator's dilemma' is when Shelley and Frankenstein experienced giving "birth" to life while also being responsible for its death upon its birth.
This argument presented by Moers is given central focus in this paper. Using her argument that the novel "Frankenstein" presented the "creator's dilemma," where creators Shelley and Frankenstein both became creators and destructors of human life. This is demonstrated in the novel between the phases wherein Frankenstein created and later banished the Creature that he considered a monstrosity. In this paper, the analysis and discussion reflects how Moers depicted the creator's dilemma through examples in the novel "Frankenstein." This paper posits that the creator's dilemma is illustrated in a two-fold manner: the first phase reflecting the role of Shelley and Frankenstein...
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