Item: Frankissstein
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Breaking Human Nature : Frankissstein and Sexbots

Jeanette Winterson is a flourishing writer who has numerous prizes for instance John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, Whitbread Prize, a BAFTA Award, E. M. Forster Award, the St. Louis Literary Award, also Lambda Literary Award. Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson is written in 2019 and it is a postmodernist novel that giving a sense of re-writing Frankenstein in the present tense with Winterson’s sense of humor. The genres are historical fiction, Lgbt novel, or science fiction. The plot is about dr. Ry and Victor Stein’s story of creating robots like Marry Shelley and Victor Frankenstein creating a living being. It can be undeniable to say that the work has parallels with each other’s in terms of themes, characters, and the plot but mainly with the ideology of the society which is criticized throughout the novel like in the umbrella of popular culture. The characters of the novel who are Ry Shelley, Professor Stein, Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein are the most discussed ones and the novel is mainly connecting them. Work’s genre is a postmodernist novel, for the reader, it is easy to have close reading within the text. Because Frankenstein is a story within a story but also Frankinssstein breaks the boundaries and touches the reader and provides a sense of existing in the story. Characters and writers are aware of they are in a novel which can be understood ‘’Further to your visit, the man who calls himself Victor Frankenstein, a character in your excellent novel’’ as an example. Readers can see Marry Shelley’s writing process, ideas, conscious of her and other characters. It would be healthful to understand Frankenstein and the story’s representation of Frankissstein. Frankenstein is written in the Regency Period when it is between 1811 to 1820. Timeline plays a great role in the revolutions of the period. Frankenstein is untitled The Modern Prometheus at the same time. As a second name, The Modern Prometheus is a significant alternative because both stories have related subtexts. Prometheus is the creator of mankind with clay in greek mythology. But victor uses dead bodies to create a new living being. The idea of it is that ‘breaking balance of nature.' The equal statement is still relevant to our life: the idea of capitalism for example. For Victor Frankenstein, ‘’ My work became everything to me. I didn't write to my family, and I never went out with friends. I ate very little and began to lose weight). Shelley is linked by Marx’s Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844.The form of alienation with levels and reasons. For Marx, the main concern for alienation is the deterioration of nature. (Pavithran,176-178). The parallel idea of the Frankissstein is that ‘‘This market is global. This market is the future.’(Winterson 40). It clear from the quote that capitalism in the contemporary age has not replaced and it gives an idea that it will be dominant in the future too. Guy Debord states that ‘turning the whole planet into a single world market.’(19). With popular culture, we are creating new spectacles for us. Also, the scene when Stein takes Ry to the underground in Manchester. The money that the government spends is not for helping the world but for intellectual battle. The idea of capitalism is important as much as the idea of feminism. The rights of women directly are witnessed when the beginning of the novel when ‘'Is there not more to life than marriage? I asked. For a woman? said Byron. Not at all. For a man, love is of his life, a thing apart. For a woman, it is her whole existence.'’(Winterson 14). It is a direct message that women need to man to be a part of society. On the other hand, Ry faces gender issues because of being trans. The obvious scenes are when Stein always says that he is not gay but he loves Ry. Ry explains that ‘'I am what I am, but what I am, is not one thing, not one gender. I live with doubleness.’' (Winterson 64). The idea is not accepted by Stein because there are a lot of dialogues between them about being transgender. It shows that Stein does not fully accept him as he is if Ry prefers to be as ‘him’. As Judith Buther explains in her book entitled ‘Gender Troubles’, there is a difference between sex and gender. The contrast is that gender is what society expects from us and sex is what we want biologically. And Victor with the traditional understanding, says that he is not gay.Actually, there are many times Ry needs to be understood like ‘’He’s trans, said Ron. Like I said, his real name is Mary. My ‘real’ name is not Mary!’'(Winterson 161. Victor Frankenstein and Stein have the same power in the stories. It can be considered as they are male, aristocrat, or more extended. For example, Stein says that ‘naming is still our primary task’ (Winterson 58). The idea is that he is superior in some aspects like in the story of the Garden of Eden as male, as a colonizer in the colonial period, or as an aristocrat in the capitalist system. Also, it a reference that Frankenstein's monster has not a name which is a lack of identity. He says that ‘It’s not survival of the fittest – it’s survival of the smartest. We are the smartest.’(Winterson 106) which means he is creating a social Darwinism and he is in the top position on the hierarchy. The idea can be an example of what Dostoyevski asserts by saying ’ Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. ‘’Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if a man is stupid, then who is wise?’’(38). He desires to be on the top when he creates AI (artificial intelligence) as the most intelligent man. Not only the usage of technology is one of the characteristics of the post-modern genre but also the work mainly makes the reader question inventions. the idea of AI is linked with the idea of ‘breaking our nature’.It is apparent that the quote which is ‘' Ron, bots are our slaves; house slaves, work slaves, sex slaves.’' shows that as human beings, we transfer all our nature to robots. Ron explains and supports sex robots and he says that ’' My first bot was there for me when I got home from work and there was none of the usual where have you been what time do you call this?’'(Winterson 158). He is not aware of how much he is isolated from reality and how much he will be lonely in terms of love. Also, Stein says that '‘Albert Camus. You may not have read him, but perhaps you should.’'(Winterson 57) and also says ‘'life is absurd.’'(Winterson 198). The topic which is AI and absurdism or existentialism is linked with each other. Because what we should live for, when everything is done for us. We do not have something to search for because AI is more intellectual for us and we do not have to think. To sum up, the idea that Jeanette Winterson creates fictional work that characters who can travel through time, can create robots, and more numerous. The main problems are the social categorization of popular culture, the technology that changes rapidly, ideas of our psychology, etc. The work questions us for our future, our intentions, and all the inventions that we accept as natural and things that we do not question unconsciously that how far it can go. The work explains to us that social topics that we discuss are not changed throughout time.

FrankisssteinJeanette Winterson · Jonathan Cape Books · 201962 okunma

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