Task 1: Men and Women in Frankenstein Think about how men and women interact in Mary Shelley's Gothic novel Frankenstein.
Based on what you read in the novel, how do you think men and women associated with
each other during the Romantic period (between the late eighteenth century and early
nineteenth century), when the book was written and published? What does the novel tell you
about their attitudes toward dating, marriage, relationships, and singlehood? What about the
emotions described in the novel? How might this reflect the way men and women interacted
and what they might have expected of, or idealized about, each other at the time that
Frankenstein was written? Support your response with textual evidence.