Role Of Feminism In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a multilayered conversation with her mother Mary Wollstonecraft. Wollstonecraft believed that if educated the same way, women could be just as intelligent as men. She suggested that men and women should be treated as equals. From start to finish, the novel constantly lingers on this idea of feminism. Specifically, the novel’s depiction of the women characters throughout the plot reveals Shelley supported Wollstonecraft’s theory that women were treated inferior to men.
A female character evident of demonstrating this inferiority was Justine Moritz, a young woman adopted by Victor’s father. She is later wrongfully accused of murdering William Frankenstein, who was really killed by the monster. Staying calm, Justine