The 21st century vs. The old century women.

A young 23 year old Yemeni women who choose to join the army in Yemen .

A Famous Yemeni singer by the name of Arwa is will known in the arab world. She is now famous for her television show about celebrities answering personal questions. For some she is known as The Oprah of Arabia.

The book Frankenstein

suggest the women are not involved with society .

They are portrayed as being only as a

caregiver where there business is at home.

Yemen was once controlled by the British

Yemen was just one of the countries that was invaded by the British. The british controlled yemen from 1839 to 1967 . South yemen which is now known as aden was the part the british controlled. The british said they controlled aden because it was a so called important base for the royal navy. It was really important because it was the opening of the suez canal where aden became the important route to india.The "British left when they were forced out by the support from the Soviet Union".

British Empire abolishing slavery

Slavery was always despised in the Caribbean. They used barbaric means of getting these slaves, in some cases by raiding villages and kidnapping the people. They would torture them, deprive them of basic necessities such as food and drink, even fresh air on the ship coming to the new land. These people were treated worse than animals, beaten and abused. They had enough and resisted. Even though they resisted the slave trade since it began. The Slaves retaliated as a whole, in some incidents in the thousands. Major slave revolts followed throughout the Caribbean. The successful slave revolt which made Haiti independent in 1804 was an inspiration to other countries such as Barbados, Cuba and Jamaica. The revolts shocked the British government and made them see that the costs and dangers of keeping slavery in the West Indies were too high. Plantation owners were finally ready to accept abolition rather than risk a widespread war. Great Britain suffered and did not want to fight another war after the series of wars they fought at this time as in 1812 against America and the French Revolution in 1815. The French Revolution also brought ideas of liberty and equality, which inspired those seeking an end to slavery. Besides, the industrial revolution in the 18th century, Britain no longer needed slave-based goods. The country was more able to prosper from new systems which required high efficiency, through free trade and free labor. Cotton, rather than sugar, became the main produce of the British economy and English towns. The British the British Empire passed a Bill to abolish slave trade in 1807 and in 1833, slavery was abolished for good. The act, did not free enslaved people, they were to become "apprentices" for 6 years and some were paid small wages as planters. Protests finally forced the government to abolish the apprenticeship system in 1838(Sources:http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/DIASPORA/REBEL.HTMl, http://caribbean-guide.info/past.and.present/history/slave.rebellion)

Frankenstein's creature a "colony"

Mary Shelley, portrays Victor Frankenstein’s Creation as a sophisticated and intelligent creature. The creature is misjudged because of his appearance. He is seen as a hideous and a strange thing, even Victor, who created him, looked at him and fled. Frankenstein’s creature is looked down and is seen as a “colony” in some shape or form. He is judged and misunderstood, the only person who appreciates him is a blind man. Hence, because he cannot see what this creature really looks like. The creature can be also be seen as a “rebellion colony”, he wants to prove his point and show Victor that he is more than what he appears to be.

(Source:http://past.oxfordjournals.org/content/85/1/99.extract)

British Empire in the West Indies.

The British West Indies were colonies of the Kingdom of the Great Britain. This affected me as an individual because my family descended from this area from the countries Trinidad and Guyana. The West Indies, also known as the Caribbean is a tropical area of over one million sq. feet of 27 territories. Britian took advantage of the region's sugar industry, owning five of the ten most profitable sugar islands. Slaves and indentured servents worked on the sugar, cotton and rice fields and plantations. Some were given the opportunity to work in the factories, but were still deprived of their rights. From the 17th century until the 19th century, almost twelve million Africans were brought to the New World against their will to perform back-breaking labor under terrible conditions. The Africans were sold in many ways. Some were sold to traders by other Africans, others were forced aboard ships to be taken across the Atlantic on a voyage that was called "the middle passage”. Africans were chained and packed into quarters unfit for movement or proper breathing. The only hope of escape rested in suicide by jumping overboard. They had the right to punish slaves in any way with any weapon, Slaves were preferable choices over indentured servants. Slaves had no right to food or shelter like indentured servants. When slavery ended in the British Empire in 1833, plantation owners turned to indentured servitude for inexpensive labor. These servants arrived from across the globe; the majority came from India. Slaves and Indentured Servants were tortured on these plantations. Britain influenced this region with the religion of Christanity; Sports, cricket, rugby and soccer; food, tea, bread and cheese; and the English language.(Source:http://www.caribbeanislands.us,http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/gothic/imperial.html)

Man vs. Woman in Society

In Frankenstein it is very obvious that the research I received about women being looked at as mere housewives is relevant. This is clearly seen in the scene where Victor’s mother passes away because she aids Elizabeth when she comes down with scarlet fever. In this scene it is illustrated how the woman must endure the role as caretaker. She dies taking care of her family, why doesn’t the man do his part? This scene also serves as another example for the role of the woman as well, before passing Victor’s mother says to Elizabeth “…Elizabeth my love, you must supply my place to my younger children…” She passes the burden of the household wife to Elizabeth not her husband because Elizabeth is a woman!!

Technology, science and Frankenstein

Mary Shelley must have been inspired from the improvement in science and technology for some parts of the novel. Enhancement in science and by unveiling secrets of nature brought Victor Frankenstein (or the author) the whole idea of creating another being, hoping to make improvements on the original one. He imagines it as some kind of a ‘superhuman’ that is safe from disease and other harmfulness and looks up to the creator, which is Victor himself. When Victor was 13 years old, he became aware of natural philosophy by reading books written by philosophers including Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus and Albertus. He shows such passion to “penetrate the secrets of nature”. To quote from the book, he says “what glory would attend the discovery, if I could banish disease from the human frame, and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death!” From this quote, we can see Victor’s thirst for knowledge. At that time, Victor did not know what he was getting himself into – he did not know that the knowledge he was so captured with were dangerous and forbidden knowledge. (Source: Shelley)