Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley lived in sexually segregated Europe in the early 19th century when she wrote her classic novel "Frankenstein", and many of her society's ideas are reflected in her novel. Mary grew up in an English society where women's roles were limited primarily to the home, while their male counterparts were out doing any such work (“Women in the 19th Century”). Much in parallel with real society, the gender roles in “Frankenstein” are very different for men as they were for women. In Volume I of “Frankenstein,” the main character, Victor Frankenstein, refers to nature as a woman – “I have chased nature to her hiding places” (Mary Shelley, 49) – participating in a gender segregation whose consequences they are evident everywhere throughout the novel; the effects of the separation of the sexes lead to destruction over and over again in the novel, perhaps illustrating Mary Shelley's beliefs about the consequences of this segregation. “Whether Shelley intended it or not, Frankenstein offers formal and thematic echoes of the revolutionary philosophy that created cultural space, of ever-evolving form and nature, for imaginary interventions in the political and social,” (Batchelor, Rhonda) says Rhonda Batchelor in her essay on the female voice in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is entirely possible that Shelley did not intend to include her views on the male lead, but there is more evidence pointing to the fact that she actually included her beliefs in her novel to include them in the newly founded women's movement of her time. This essay will argue that Mary Shelley adds hints in her novel "Frankenstein", clearly indicating her perception that men saw women as a weak second class in... middle of paper... from the De Lacey family to represent her ideology alternative: a vision of a social group based on justice, equality and mutual affection (Mellor, Anne K. 358). Mellor argues that all these feminist beliefs and thoughts were the result of Shelley's mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, and her book "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman". In this book, Wollstonecraft describes the consequences of a social construction of gender that values ​​the male above the female. He also argues that women are capable of intellectual greatness equal to if not better than men (Grogan, Claire). Mellor states that Shelley was “undoubtedly inspired by her mother's [novel]” (Mellor, Anne K. 356). Finally, Anne Mellor speculates that Shelley is trying to imply that, if the De Lacey family had had a maternal figure, they would have been better able to accept the creature into their home (Mellor, Anne K.. 359).