Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Through the lens of Feminist Criticism

The emergence of feminist literary criticism is one of the major developments in literary studies. Feminist criticism deals with the “ways in which literature reinforce or undermine the economic, political, social and psychological oppression of women” (Tyson 83). This school of thought tries to find out the way in which females are treated as inferior to the male counterparts. Through this the feminist critic’s questions the representation of women in literature as well as the language used in the literature as a tool to differentiate gender. The objective of this paper is to examine Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein from a feminist point of view. This will further try to analyse the way in which the female characters are portrayed in the novel.