"Now Misery Has Come Home": Sibling Rivalry in Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"

Crisman, William

doi:10.2307/25601210

Studies in Romanticism

1997

DOI: 10.2307/25601210

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"Now Misery Has Come Home": Sibling Rivalry in Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"

William Crisman¹

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“…For a generalized summary of psychoanalytic criticism and applied Lacanian theory, see Franco (1998 andEleanor Salotto (1994). For a discussion of Frankenstein as a family romance, see Crisman (1997); this essay provides a brief history of critical views of the family structures in the novel. For a discussion of Frankenstein as phantasmagoria, see Moers (1979).…”

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The Importance of Being “Ernest“ in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: A Study in Literary Onomastics

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In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley utilizes the names of her characters to simultaneously distance the reader from the characters and to make ironic comparisons between the true identity of a character and the identity a character portrays. Furthermore, parallels are made between separate characters as well as between the character Margaret Saville and the author Mary Shelley. The novel uses a multiple-frame format where no single character directly presents the entire story and characters’ names are introduced in a manner that serves their role thematically. Notably, Ernest, whose name suggests an honest disposition, is the only character in the Frankenstein family who is spared from tragedy. Ernest's survival resonates as a warning to those who irresponsibly chase scientific progress. Shelley's automatization of names in Frankenstein sets the reader up for the deautomatization of Ernest's name and his symbolic development into a young man who produces for his country rather than threatens its existence with scientific pursuit.

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Frankenstein:A Child’s Tale

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"Now Misery Has Come Home": Sibling Rivalry in Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"

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The Importance of Being “Ernest“ in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: A Study in Literary Onomastics

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