58. Is It Possible That Gender Equality is A Wrong Move?

Movie Synopsis

The torrid true-life tale of how a passionate love affair fueled the creation of trailblazing writer Mary Shelley's Gothic masterwork, Frankenstein. Elle Fanning stars.

Book to Go Along:

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the book that changed the world
Monster: Publishing to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and a movie starring Elle Fanning as Mary Shelley, Monster is a brilliant fictionalized biography akin to The Other Boleyn Girl.

Frankenstein: Two centuries ago this year, the young woman who invented science fiction was only 20 when she wrote the book that became Frankenstein. Mary Shelley said, “People ask how I, then a young girl, could think of, and dilate upon, so hideous subject?”

Gothic Romance: Her father gave her a far better education than any woman of the age could hope for and made her the victim of ongoing incest. At 15, she became involved with one of the greatest poets in England and made love to him on her mother’s grave. When she was 16, she escaped from home by running away for a six week walking tour of Europe and formed a ménage a trois with Shelley and her sister.

Mary Shelley - Frankenstein: Her immediate influences were two of the greatest poets of the age. Her lover, Percy Shelley, coached her to expand her understanding of writing. Her mentor, Lord Byron, challenged her to prove she was as good a writer as the best poet-philosophers of the Enlightenment. Both men admired her mind, and both wanted more. By the time she was 20, she published the book that changed the world.

Genres	Drama
Director	Yim Pil-Sung, Haifaa Al-Mansour
Starring	Elle Fanning, Maisie Williams, Bel Powley

Woman has always been on the losing side. She has to cook, clean, and milk the children. She is the one who gets pregnant, and gives birth. Even if the male partner can cook, clean and take care of the children, he can never get pregnant and give birth. That's what makes it so unfair. What to do about it? I mean we have gender equality, but it seems that God himself doesn't approve of our move. Do you think that we'd better forget gender equality instead? Or, maybe there's a better way to do it. We just haven't figured it out yet.

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• Mary Shelley