My stunning padlet by https://padlet.com/azhou216/xno0n6zyr3lq Made with an open mind en-us 2016-11-15 19:10:58 UTC 2025-10-23 22:21:17 UTC hello@padlet.com Thesis: Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women speaks of the purpose of women going beyond superficial looks and actions, sharply contrasting against the stereotypical portrayal of women in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and revealing the differences between the two literature. azhou216 https://padlet.com/azhou216/xno0n6zyr3lq/wish/137873396 2016-11-15 19:12:13 UTC https://padlet.com/azhou216/xno0n6zyr3lq/wish/137873396 Frankenstein Quote 1 azhou216 https://padlet.com/azhou216/xno0n6zyr3lq/wish/137873734
  • “I have a pretty present for my Victor- tomorrow he shall have it.’ And when, on the morrow, she presented Elizabeth to me as her promised gift, I, with childish seriousness, interpreted her words literally and looked upon Elizabeth as mine- mine to protect, love, and cherish. All praises bestowed on her I received as made to a possession of my own” (Shelley 34). 

    • ]]>     2016-11-15 19:12:56 UTC https://padlet.com/azhou216/xno0n6zyr3lq/wish/137873734     Frankenstein Quote 2 azhou216 https://padlet.com/azhou216/xno0n6zyr3lq/wish/137873984 “The girl was young and of gentle demeanour… yet she was meanly dressed, a coarse blue petticoat and a linen jacket being her only garb; her fair hair was plaited but not adorned: she looked patient yet sad” (Shelley 113). ]]> 2016-11-15 19:13:31 UTC https://padlet.com/azhou216/xno0n6zyr3lq/wish/137873984 A Vindication of the Rights of Women: Quote 2 azhou216 https://padlet.com/azhou216/xno0n6zyr3lq/wish/137875789 "Girls are from their earliest infancy fond of dress. Not content with being pretty, they are desirous of being thought so; we see, by all their little airs, that this thought engages their attention; " (Wollstonecraft, Section 5.1).]]> 2016-11-15 19:17:19 UTC https://padlet.com/azhou216/xno0n6zyr3lq/wish/137875789 azhou216 https://padlet.com/azhou216/xno0n6zyr3lq/wish/137889316 2016-11-15 19:45:56 UTC https://padlet.com/azhou216/xno0n6zyr3lq/wish/137889316 azhou216 https://padlet.com/azhou216/xno0n6zyr3lq/wish/137890939 2016-11-15 19:50:15 UTC https://padlet.com/azhou216/xno0n6zyr3lq/wish/137890939 Connection 2 azhou216 https://padlet.com/azhou216/xno0n6zyr3lq/wish/137892659 Wollstonecraft writes of how girls are taught at a young age the importance of appearances and other's perception of them. However, this starkly contrasts against Shelley's writing style, which depicts Agatha in a rather superficial way. She is considered "meanly dressed," and it is carefully noted that she does not have any hair decorations. Through Wollstonecraft's argument against the mere surface analysis of women, Shelley has taken this into her writing by depicting women in exactly the demeaning way Wollstonecraft argues against. ]]> 2016-11-15 19:55:11 UTC https://padlet.com/azhou216/xno0n6zyr3lq/wish/137892659 A Vindication of the Rights of Women: Quote 1 azhou216 https://padlet.com/azhou216/xno0n6zyr3lq/wish/138298101 "Supposing women to have been formed only to please, and be subject to man, the conclusion is just, she ought to sacrifice every other consideration to render herself agreeable to him: and let this brutal desire of self-preservation be the grand spring of all her actions...I may be allowed to doubt whether woman was created for man" (Wollstonecraft, Section 5.1). ]]> 2016-11-17 03:07:15 UTC https://padlet.com/azhou216/xno0n6zyr3lq/wish/138298101 Connection 1 azhou216 https://padlet.com/azhou216/xno0n6zyr3lq/wish/138298196 When Victor's mother presents Elizabeth to him as a "gift," Shelley is clearly objectifying Elizabeth and debasing her as nothing more than a little present for Victor to look after as a "possession" of his own. However, Wollstonecraft argues that women should not play such a simplistic role and should not be objects for the satisfaction of me. By casting Elizabeth in a stereotypical, female role, Shelley is showing the objectification of women, as so argued against in Wollstonecraft's work. ]]> 2016-11-17 03:08:28 UTC https://padlet.com/azhou216/xno0n6zyr3lq/wish/138298196 Frankenstein Quote 3 azhou216 https://padlet.com/azhou216/xno0n6zyr3lq/wish/138302694 "'But I do not pretend that my protestations should acquit me; I rest my innocence on a plain and simple explanation of the facts which have been adduced against me'" (Shelley 87). 
    "Ever since I was condemned, my confessor has besieged me; he threatened and menaced, until I almost began to think that I was the monster that he said I was" (Shelley 91). ]]>     2016-11-17 04:09:43 UTC https://padlet.com/azhou216/xno0n6zyr3lq/wish/138302694     A Vindication of the Rights of Women: Quote 3 azhou216 https://padlet.com/azhou216/xno0n6zyr3lq/wish/138302793 "The first and most important qualification in a woman is good-nature or sweetness of temper; formed to obey a being so imperfect as man, often full of vices, and always full of faults, she ought to learn betimes even to suffer injustice" (Wollstonecraft, Section 5.1).]]> 2016-11-17 04:11:16 UTC https://padlet.com/azhou216/xno0n6zyr3lq/wish/138302793 Connection 3 azhou216 https://padlet.com/azhou216/xno0n6zyr3lq/wish/138306171 During Justine's false conviction, her willingness to agree to the crime shows her as an incredibly passive and underwhelming character. In comparison, Wollstonecraft wrote in her book that an important "qualification" for women is a mild nature and sweet temper. When one analyzes the manner of Justine's death and the way her character was written, one can see there was no true fight for her case and her confession was a result of pressure from a man. The fact that Justine almost began to think she truly was the killer shows how Wollstonecraft if correct in saying women must learn to bear the burden and injustice of men. Although it may seem puzzling as to why Shelley is casting Justine off to the side so carelessly, in truth, Justine's lackluster nature only goes to prove a strong, feminist point and actually emphasizes the points made in Wollstonecraft's work.]]> 2016-11-17 05:16:53 UTC https://padlet.com/azhou216/xno0n6zyr3lq/wish/138306171 Frankenstein Quote 4 azhou216 https://padlet.com/azhou216/xno0n6zyr3lq/wish/138306731 “‘Shall each man,’ cried he, ‘find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have his mate, and I be alone? I had feelings of affection, and they were requited by detestation and scorn’” (Shelley 183). ]]> 2016-11-17 05:27:33 UTC https://padlet.com/azhou216/xno0n6zyr3lq/wish/138306731 A Vindication of the Rights of Women: Quote 4 azhou216 https://padlet.com/azhou216/xno0n6zyr3lq/wish/138307190 "The soul of woman is not allowed to have this distinction, and man, ever placed between her and reason, she is always represented as only created to see through a gross medium... But, dismissing these fanciful theories, and considering woman as a whole, let it be what it will, instead of a part of man, the inquiry is, whether she has reason or not" (Wollstonecraft, Section 4.1). ]]> 2016-11-17 05:36:04 UTC https://padlet.com/azhou216/xno0n6zyr3lq/wish/138307190 Connection 4 azhou216 https://padlet.com/azhou216/xno0n6zyr3lq/wish/138307261 Wollstonecraft calls for the validation of women as separate beings from men. When one takes a look at how desperate the monster is for a female counterpart, it is clear to see that Wollstonecraft's beliefs had transferred into Shelley's writing. The monster states how each living being has its female half, which shows how dependent men are for a wife, but also how deeply rooted they are in the belief that they should even have a female partner in the first place. Wollstonecraft writes of the exact separation of this idea, that one should consider a woman for what she is, not simply as an extension of a man. Shelley incorporates Wollstonecraft's ideas and beliefs by having the monster pressure Victor for a bride, therefore showing the almost decorative role of a woman. ]]> 2016-11-17 05:37:33 UTC https://padlet.com/azhou216/xno0n6zyr3lq/wish/138307261 azhou216 https://padlet.com/azhou216/xno0n6zyr3lq/wish/138559849 Works Cited

    Shelley, Mary. New York: Penguin Group, 2013. Print.
    Wollstonecraft, Mary. Buffalo: Prometheus, 1989. Print.


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