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Frankenstein was written in the intellectual atmosphere of the radical Enlightenment philosophy of the author's parents, William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and their followers. The novel's interpretable flexibility and richness was the product of the intellectual background in which Mary Shelley grew up. In this article, I argue that the indeterminacy and fragmentarity of Frankenstein is Shelley's inheritance of her parents' criticism of the modern subjectivity rather than the result of the author's immaturity and unskillfulness. Although some critics argue that Mary Shelley sentimentalizes woman and family in this novel, my point is that she inherits Wollstonecraft's criticism of gender and the ideal of bourgeois family. The monster in Frankenstein, is the unique descendent of Wollstonecraft's social criticism.
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Wollstonecraft, indeterminacy, fragmentarity, inheritance, modern subjectivity, criticism of the gender, the ideal of bourgeois family, monster.
