I found this TED Ed video on Frankenstein very interesting because it covered a lot of good points. I liked how this video spoke a bit about the background information in the author, Mary Shelley and how it frames and takes part in the themes in Frankenstein.

The narrator in this video describes Frankenstein as an artificial intelligence creation. This description stood out to me because Frankenstein is usually called a monster or a creature, not an artificial intelligence creation. However, I think it ties strongly into the world now a days. Mary Shelley is warning us from her time period about the dangers of too much creation and experimentation. I strongly believe that if she was alive during this time period, she would not only continue being a strong feminist but also against the use of human like robots. These robots scientists are creating would what be equivalent to the reanimate creature Dr. Victor Frankenstein brought back to life. These fears of the monsters/robots taking over the world is actually relevant today. I wonder if it was a good thing or a bad thing that Dr. Frankenstein did not create a female monster for the first creature.

In class, a classmate did a presentation on Frankenstein and she compared the monster to a woman in how it brings up the topic of how women are horribly treated and not respected enough. She spoke of how Mary Shelley was a feminist and she used the monster as a representative of the female gender in society. This class discussion came to mind when the narrator in the TED-Ed video mentioned how Mary Shelley and her mother were feminists and how her mother’s death shortly after giving birth to Mary Shelley haunted Mary Shelley her whole life. I wondered if the creature could be her mother in some way; haunting Mary over and over again after she gave birth and instead of the mother dying, this time was the child. That thought gave me the chills. However, this thought also lead to the thought of how Mary Shelley viewed “birth as both creative and destructive” because almost every time birth occurred, someone died and someone lived; and she then linked it how education and extreme searches for knowledge and discovery is also like giving birth since there are both great pros with heavy cons attached.