1. Shelley's work represents "Femaleness." The novel is a work of Romanticism that is itself a "female fantasy" mainly because was caught up in a flurry of sexuality when she was writing.
2. Shelley was influenced by her family's literary history even though she had little time with them. Her studies of her parents' own work inspired her own style and novel.
3. Shelley herself is embodied in her characters--Victor and the creature--as each is trying to understand their presence in a "fallen" world. However, her characters have not fallen from Heaven to Earth but from Earth to Hell.
4. Victor is Adam, Satan and EVE. Eve is the one who gave birth to sin; Victor's, like Eve's, curiousity brought him out of Eden.
5. The creature represents Eve through isolation and alienation. Her and his fate rely on the acceptance of others. It is Eve who is seen as the "dirty" version of man, the evil human embodiment, and is an outcast compared to the fate of Adam and other beings.
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