Summarizing, Critical Response

       I chose to focus on Ellen Moers “Female Gothic: The monster’s Mother”. Her writing is from Moers’s Literary Women, in Garden City, Doubleday, 1976. In the story Ellen discusses what gothic was in the 1700’s when writing books. She talks about how Shelley relates the book Frankenstein a lot like having kids. Being pregnant and having a baby, is a lot like Frankenstein’s story. It looks like she wrote this because she felt strongly on how different Shelley’s horror story is compared to others around the same time. She talks about the relations to how Frankenstein creates this life and as soon as it’s “born” he is scared and abandons it. Some mother’s can relate, after having kids they have issues taking the baby and want to ignore the baby or worse kill themselves.

       I think the author did read it differently than how I did. I just read it as a sad story about a monster that just wants to be accepted and loved just like any other human. She took it as a person abandoning their child and took it to a new level that made me think so much harder than I wanted to. It made me realize that there really is this intense meaning of abandonment and how maybe an orphan feels. I definitely gained from Ellen’s perspective and actually makes me want to take on what she’s said and continue reading Frankenstein with that perspective. I will be using this with essay 3; I just have to figure out how to apply what I’ve learned.

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