Sherry Ginn's Frankenstein: Science Fiction Or Autobiography

Frankenstein: Science, Fiction or Autobiography

Sherry Ginn is an assistant professor of Psychology in a University in North Carolina whose name is Wingate University. With a PH.D. In Psychology from U.S.C (University of North Carolina), Sherry has the ability to make an examination and interpretation of the literary work of Mary Shelley. While others focuses on her famous work, Sherry Ginn’s essay entitled:” Frankenstein: Science, Fiction or Autobiography.” Sufficiently and conclusively make an analysis of Frankenstein’s life from a psychosocial perspective by focusing important themes such as: the life of Mary Shelley, the myth and story of Frankenstein, the science of Mart Shelley and classification of Frankenstein, the eight stages of man

She says that she was born in 1797 and is the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Women. She also gives the reason behind all the essential elements in the story. The white gravestone represents her mother because she was died only nine years after she gave birth to her and the motherless child represents Mary. It is question less that Mary at her early age and during the time of her adolescence spent hours and hours at the grave of her mother. Sherry also talked about the fact that Mary’s dad William Godwin when marrying to Mary Jane Clairmont really disturbed Shelley’s life because she did not want anyone to take the place of her

She says that how people see the novel as a science fiction while Jane DonaWerth believe that it is a feminist science fiction because it is written but a women and because it talks about three different themes such as: the rejection of women from science. He also says that the modifications brought in the novel during the next editions decrease the probability that the novel will come to be archaic. Sherry also states by following the propositions of Mellor and Donawerth regarding the different traits of science fiction, she finishes by noticing that the novel is not a science fiction. Sherry also states that many people believe that Frankenstein is an autobiography because Mary wants a family that is stable. She states that by reading Frankenstein, we can be able to understand Mary better and even much better by reading her different works within the framework of psychosocial theory.

In The last two sections, Mary talks about the eight stages of man and what a reading of the novel within Erickson framework implies. She gives explanations about the different stages and only focuses on the fifth and sixth stages of development. She chooses those two specific ones because she believes that crises for intimacy can help to understand the life of