Romantic Outlaws

Fathers, though, seemed able to reject their children without even a backward glance. Or so it seemed to Mary in the fall of 1816 as day after day, Godwin maintained his flinty silence. She poured her sorrow and outrage into her novel by spelling out the consequences of Frankenstein’s rejection of his son. Like Mary, the creature has only a father,... See more

In Frankenstein, without maternal love the creature turns to violence and Frankenstein’s ambition is allowed to flourish unchecked;