Personal Synthesis

This book was a little confusing for me to understand. I usually don’t read books in this genre. In fact, I try to stay away from them. With only a few females in this book, I considered that back when this was written, women laid low and tried not to bring attention to themselves so much. Men might have been reinforcing those thoughts though. I feel Mary Shelley made this book with so few female characters to highlight that. Throughout the book, Elizabeth was really the only woman. She was only allowed to do so much and under guidance from a man. And when the thought of the monster having a wife was in Frankenstein’s head, he made the decision not to give him a companion. This made me conclude that at that time, men thought females were inferior to them. Although I didn’t particularly enjoy reading this book, I am looking forward to re-reading it in the future to pick up on things I didn’t notice the first time and to hopefully understand it better.