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Frankenstein, A Creature of Society. When Cindy Porter was twenty five, a single mother, and living in the projects of Philadelphia she wrote a novel. Her novel was a story about a teenage boy who had grown up in poverty. The boy's daily con ....

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... influential in her writing of Frankenstein. A theme of abandonment by women is exhibited not only in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, but in her own life as well. Just after Mary Shelley's birth, her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, died of complications from the childbirth. Mary was left, disastrously, without a female role model (Bloom 15). Her great loss can be seen played out in Frankenstein through the virtual absence of strong women. In the novel Victor Frankenstein's mother dies while he is at the University in Ingolstadt. His stepsister and fiancée, Elizabeth, is orphaned due to the death of her mother in childbirth. Justine, the n ...