What do critics think ?

• Which critic believes Shelley’s loss of a baby was a crucial influence of the writing of Frankenstein?

  Ellen Moers
• What does Ellen Moers Argue ?

  That the novel is a birth myth in which Shelley comes to terms with the guilt of failing as a parent and causing her mothers death.
• What feminist suggests that the novel is a story commenting on ‘what happens when a man tries to have a baby without a woman‘ ?

  Anne K.Mellor
• What expression does Frankenstein’s fail ur as a ”parent” create ?

  It is seen as the anxieties which accompany pregnancy, giving birth, and particularly maternity.
• What does Fred Botting suggest?

  ‘Frankenstien is a product of criticism, not literature‘