Reading Frankenstein many readers come to the idea that women's roles and responsibilities were completely different from those of men. One of the many things I found interesting was how women's roles and responsibilities affected men's lives as well. Women played a very important role even though they would ultimately be the ones to prosper. Searching for information on how women's roles and responsibilities have made a difference, I came across many very important articles, which show feminism, the domesticated roles of women and the way women are represented in Frankenstein. In the making of Frankenstein, feminism played an important role in the woman's life. Although created by a female author, Frankenstein's female roles can be seen as an uncertain end to the future development of inequality. When creating Frankenstein, one of Shelley's major concerns was “the display of the amiability of domestic affections” (Levy 700). Shelley wanted Frankenstein to have a “sympathetic identification both within and without the domestic sphere” (Levy 707). However, Shelley applies a feminist lens to literature and wants readers to learn from both the “female” and “male” perspectives (Collings 68). In 19th century Geneva, men were seen as philosophers and inventors, while women were seen as emotional and domesticated. Frankenstein was created in the midst of women's liberation. By reading Frankenstein one interprets feminist views, which can be seen as unknown to the female characters in the story. The story of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley explores feminist issues through the characters in the story. Men like Victor Frankenstein and Walton venture on journeys in search of education and personal pleasure, while the female... middle of paper... And hysteria in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein." Studies In The Novel 25.2 (1993) ) : 152. Academic research completed. Web. 1 March 2014. Levy, Michelle. "Discovery and the Domestic Affections in Coleridge and Shelley Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 44.4 (2004): 693-713. Web. 28 February 2014. Lunsford, Lars. "The Devaluation of Life in Shelley's Frankenstein". Mellor, Anne K. “Owning Nature: The Female in Frankenstein. “Romanticism and feminism -368. Press. Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, and J. Paul Hunter: Text, Contexts, Criticism of 1818 New York: W. W. Norton &, 2012. Print.