apos;penetrate into the dark recesses of nature, and to show how she works in her hiding places' with the motive 'to learn the hidden laws' or 'the inner spirit of nature,' restricting, and therefore disempowering, nature. Nature is personified as a woman, whilst science is associated with men for purposes that may be revealed in Romanticism and Gender by Anne K. Mellor. This text defines traditional romanticism as masculine romanticism, which she believes does not focus on 'the recognition and appreciation of the beloved woman as an independent other, but rather the assimilation of the female into the male [or the annihilation of any other that threatens masculine selfhood] the woman must finally be enslaved or destroyed.' [26] Thus 'what has been the study and desire of the wisest men since the creation of the world,' is the ability to reproduce life, a role assigned to women by nature. Men use science as a weapon to control life. In prolonging death man 'had partially unveiled the face of Nature.' The consequence of this mistreatment include that in the process of exploration scientist's 'eyes were insensible to the charms of nature' and they fail to recognise it's beauty, because they are so engrossed in its control. Victor Frankenstein's attempt to possess the powers of nature by creating life in his monster, fails miserably. This becomes evident when the monster speaks of how he 'admired the perfect forms o
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