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Women in Frankenstein: Mary Shelley's Novel versus Kenneth Branagh's Film
2014. urn:nbn:hr:142:404215
Pataki, Jelena
Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English Language and Literature

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Pataki, J. (2014). Women in Frankenstein: Mary Shelley's Novel versus Kenneth Branagh's Film (Master's thesis). Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:404215

Pataki, Jelena. "Women in Frankenstein: Mary Shelley's Novel versus Kenneth Branagh's Film." Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2014. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:404215

Pataki, Jelena. "Women in Frankenstein: Mary Shelley's Novel versus Kenneth Branagh's Film." Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2014. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:404215

Pataki, J. (2014). 'Women in Frankenstein: Mary Shelley's Novel versus Kenneth Branagh's Film', Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 08 May 2024, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:404215

Pataki J. Women in Frankenstein: Mary Shelley's Novel versus Kenneth Branagh's Film [Master's thesis]. Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2014 [cited 2024 May 08] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:404215

J. Pataki, "Women in Frankenstein: Mary Shelley's Novel versus Kenneth Branagh's Film", Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Osijek, 2014. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:404215

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TitleWomen in Frankenstein: Mary Shelley's Novel versus Kenneth Branagh's Film
Title (croatian)Žene u Frankensteinu: Roman Mary Shelley i Film Kenneth Branagha
AuthorJelena Pataki
MentorBorislav Berić (mentor)
MentorLjubica Matek (sumentor)
Committee memberSanja Runtić (predsjednik povjerenstva)
Committee memberJadranka Zlomislić (član povjerenstva)
Committee memberBorislav Berić (član povjerenstva)
GranterJosip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English Language and Literature)
Osijek
Defense date and country2014-06-30, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Anglistics
Abstract
This paper explores how Mary Shelley used the unprecedented motif of male procreation to both acurrately describe and harshly criticize the unfavourable position of women in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Inspired by Mary Wollstonecraft, her mother and also one the earliest feminist writers, Shelley depicts the inevitable negative outcomes of the strict gender division in the society. This meant that the public sphere of life was regarded as the male realm, while the private or emotional sphere of life represented the female realm. Frankenstein serves as the author's protest against the general concept of female inferiority as well as against her own position as an emerging female (!) writer in a male-dominated world. Additionally, the paper presents director Kenneth Branagh's film adaptation Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and discusses how the changes he introduced bring the novel's underlying issues to the foreground. All issues discussed in this paper prove that Shelley’s Frankenstein is not just a work of fiction whose main themes have no connection to the real world its author lived in. Quite contrary, the purpose of this interpretation is to discover how Shelley’s fictional world and its norms reflect the attitudes of the society of her time.
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Languageenglish
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:142:404215
Study programmeTitle: English Language and Literature (double major); specializations in: Teacher Training, Translation and Interpreting Studies, Philology
Course: Philology
Study programme type: university
Study level: graduate
Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti (magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti)
Study programmeTitle: Croatian Language and Literature (double major); specializations in: Teacher Training, Research Studies
Course: Teacher Training
Study programme type: university
Study level: graduate
Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra hrvatskog jezika i književnosti (magistar/magistra hrvatskog jezika i književnosti)
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