But what about the Being ? Does he not deserve to be an idol for his parents ? Does Victor not have to teach lessons of patience , charity , and self-control to the Being to make him prepared and adaptive to the values of the public arena ? Does Victor not have to guide the Being ? Does Victor not have any duty toward the Being to help him achieve a Becoming in his community ?
Frankenstein , thus , deserves all the blame for all the misdeeds done by the Being , for he has not mothered the Being in the domestic domain . If he had trained the Being properly , he could have achieved his goal of creation because the Being would have had a capacity for becoming a superhuman in case he had not been marginalized in the public sphere and had gained a proper identity and not treated as the other . And these all can also be true in the case of the female characters of the novel .
Mary Shelley echoes the voicelessness and absence of female figures of the Victorian era in her Frankenstein . Elizabeth , Caroline , and Justine are spoken of by the active voice of male characters . Shelley does not present an active participation and presence of women in the progress of Frankenstein . They are merely allowed to be expressed through the words of the males or indirect ways of expression , i . e . the letter in the case of Elizabeth . Female figures of Shelley are given the right to speak as much as they own that right in their real lives , which is tantamount to silence .
Influenced by literary works written by male figures , such as William Godwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley , Mary Shelley seems to experience a kind of “ patrilineage ” in composing her masterpiece . Nonetheless , according to écriture féminine , female authors are expected to follow
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