Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and Essay

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and the Consideration of Psychological Traumas Women Face in the Lack of Control Over Their Reproductive Organs

This section will state the study's objective.

This section introduces the topic and the context in which this topic will be examined. The various literature reviewed in this study will be introduced.

This section describes the study methodology, which in this case will be qualitative in the form of a literature review.

This section will be comprised of the literature to be reviewed in the study.

Bewell, A. (1988) An Issue of Monstrous Desire: Frankenstein and obstetrics. Yale Journal of Criticism, 2:1 Fall 1988. Retrieved from: http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/Articles/bewell.html

Ozdemir, E. (2003) Frankenstein: Self, Body, Creation, and Monstrosity. Ankara Universities Dil ve Tarih Cografya. Fakultesi Dergisi 43, 1 20033. Retrieved from: http://dergiler.ankara.edu.tr/dergiler/26/1009/12241.pdf

C. Cavallaro, D (nd) Cyberspunk and Cyberculture: Science Fiction and the Work of William Gibson. Retrieved from: https://is.muni.cz/www/175193/25476916/Cyberpunk_and_Cyberculture__Science_Fiction_and_the_Work.txt

D. Other literature sources to be added as they are located.

V. Summary of Findings

This section describes the findings of the study from the literature reviewed.

VI. Discussion

This section will discuss the study findings and how the literature reviewed is relevant to the context of the inquiry in this study.

VII. Conclusion & Recommendations

This section will make conclusions drawn from the literature reviewed. This section additionally makes recommendations for future study if any are indicated.
VIII. Bibliography

This section is comprised of the listing of sources reviewed in the literature review in this study.

Bewell, A. (1988) An Issue of Monstrous Desire: Frankenstein and obstetrics. Yale Journal of Criticism, 2:1 Fall 1988. Retrieved from: http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/Articles/bewell.html

Bewell (1988) writes that the first to argue that the work of Mary Shelley "should be read as a birth myth" was Ellen Moers since the novel appears to express the painful experience that Shelley had as a young pregnant woman who was pregnant almost continuously for five years but whose babies all died soon after birth. Shelley was also not married and when she turned eighteen 'Mary Godwin' began the novel entitled "Frankenstein." (1988) Bewell writes that Shelley's experience of pregnancy and loss "was not simply a biological matter, but also a social and discursive event, which made her familiar, in ways that critics have not been, with the language of obstetrics and its extensive and long-standing discourse on the causes of monsters and abortions." ( p.1) Bewell writes that the books that were written between the years of 1650 and 1800 saw a massive increase….....

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