dominant group ’ s public sphere as a common treatment with the others . He is neither allowed to enter the public sphere , nor is he welcomed in the domestic sphere . Female figures , like the Being , are also the other in relation to men . They have only achieved a fake identity under the authority of their patriarchal culture that merely allows them to breathe through lapses and absences in the dominant narrative .
Therefore , Mary Shelly does reflect women ’ s desires and demands in the gaps of Frankenstein . However , her women are looked upon through the eyes and spoken about by the tongues of the men , and as such exist merely in attachment to men , so much so that even their oblique presence cannot affect the main trail of the story , i . e . the creation of the Being .
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