mary rowlandson and frankenstein

Adapting and surviving within new worlds.


In both Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Mary Rowlandson’s The Sovereignty and Goodness of God both Victors creation and Mary Rowlandson deal with learning means of adapting and survival within the new worlds they are placed within and the psychological effect it has on both characters. Within Frankenstein you have Victors creation, a deformed creature that is born into this world out of Victors madness and then abandoned by his creator leaving him to survive in a world that would either accept or destroy him for being something other then human, a monster. Within The Sovereignty and Goodness of God you have Mary Rowlandson who is kidnapped along with her children and forced to live with people she refers to as the savages. While living with them she slowly learns the means and ways of surviving every day life ...