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İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü Tezleri

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    Mary Shelley and the capitalist paradigm: formed and deformed bodies in Frankenstein
    (2010) Güzey, İdil
    Mary Shelley lived in an age that witnessed a great paradigmatic change: the shift from the mercantilist to the capitalist world order. In Frankenstein, she unveils the social and psychological impacts of the new system acting on the individual by illustrating the case of Victor Frankenstein, who, by creating a monster for his own social emolument, turns into a symbolic figure standing for Western unethical capitalist mentality. Her target of criticism being capitalism itself, she shows that the system is, in fact, self destructive. While attacking the capitalist system of her age, Mary Shelley reveals that capitalist culture is the greatest of all challenges for man for it forms and deforms the individual. Frankenstein, the culturally formed scientist of the new capitalist age, represents both the social and psychological deformity in the Western paradigm for he creates a destructive “monster,” the pathetic residue of Frankenstein’s selfish social and individual pursuits, as well as an emblem of the disrupted psychology of the character. The two clash in the novel, and their mutual struggle ends in the Arctic with the destruction of the two, showing that this capitalist civilization itself is the threat to its own existence. She demonstrates that capitalist and progressive mentality of both individual and society produces perversity, disrupting the healthy growth of human psyche and the constituents of Western culture. Finally, through Frankenstein Mary Shelley indicates the catastrophe awaiting mankind.