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THE GAY LEGACY OF FRANKENSTE
However, at the same time, the breaks om the tradns ced a rponse reactn favor of more tradnal social rol other areas, such as the refutatn of male sexual relatnships to the extent that one uld be sentenced to ath for participatg the act of homosexualy.
THE QUEER FOR FEAR DOCERI ASKS: IS FRANKENSTE A GAY HORROR MOVIE?
Homosexualy as Frankenste’s Theme Durg the above-mentned perd, wrers such as Mary Shelley exprsed a great al of ncern wh the issu. Rerds show that while there no functng laws agast sodomy per se existed durg Shelley’s wrg of the novel, other laws applied agast exprsns of homosexualy and there a strong adverse public reactn agast homosexualy occurred the early 1800s.
“In 1810, when thirty homosexuals were arrted a raid on the Whe Swan, Vere St., London, those discharged for want of evince were so roughly handled by the crowd as to be danger of their liv” (The Morng Chronicle, 1810). Throughout the novel, Shelley explor the social abhorrence toward homosexualy by uchg the more socially acceptable terms of the growg mache age. Rather than beg ncerned wh the ‘natural’ orr of the world and the advancement of society, Frankenste, like the homosexual element of Bra, ncerned self wh ‘unnatural’ male love.
Unnatural as a Metaphor for Homosexualy From the begng of his tn, Victor Frankenste purposefully and tentnally turned his back on the natural world as a way of ncentratg on disverg the secret of brgg life to animate material. This fact monstrat the unproductive passn of the homosexual lover, the sire to know somethg ‘unnatural’ and beyond God’s laws. “Narcissistic mal, Victor and Robert (like Percy), displace their homosexual goals and, so dog, supprs any purpose outsi the self.