http://robertwilliams.sufaculty.org/2009/09/18/frankenstein/ Assistant Professor of Business Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:56:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://robertwilliams.sufaculty.org/2009/09/18/frankenstein/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Mary Shelley's relative Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:13:29 +0000 http://robertwilliams.sufaculty.org/?p=64#comment-28 I am inspired by the fact that apparently, Mary SHelly, who was around 18 at the time she wrote this novel, was encouraged and creative enough to go ahead and publish this. She was part of a writer's colony and they felt she really had written something new. She was creative and bold. She thought about how a woman would feel if she somehow created a "monster"...think of Rosemary's Baby! There is huge difference between Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (tenderness and empathy for that being which you create) and the way it is depicted in all the horror movies (fear & maybe we have monster chromosomes buried in our DNA). We watched Young Frankenstein last night, which I feel is the best depiction of Frankenstein anyway. I am inspired by the fact that apparently, Mary SHelly, who was around 18 at the time she wrote this novel, was encouraged and creative enough to go ahead and publish this. She was part of a writer’s colony and they felt she really had written something new. She was creative and bold. She thought about how a woman would feel if she somehow created a “monster”…think of Rosemary’s Baby! There is huge difference between Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (tenderness and empathy for that being which you create) and the way it is depicted in all the horror movies (fear & maybe we have monster chromosomes buried in our DNA).
We watched Young Frankenstein last night, which I feel is the best depiction of Frankenstein anyway.

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