Negative Self-Image

Negative Self-Image Orientation Reading in F roamincense by Mary Shelley Frankincense is one of popular science-fiction in the early nineteenth century. A novel written by Mary Shelley , she is started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first edition was published anonymously in capital of the United Kingdom in 1818. Shelley name appears on the second edition, published in France in 1823. A novel is about skipper Frankincense who try his an unusual scientific experiment.From his experiment, making a gigantic creature that shortly afterwards he fears and he hates. Because of the appearance of this being is scary so then Frankincenses monster break spurned by Frankincense his self and the people. When the monster travel to find a orient and people that rear accept him the way he is. I read this story especially on Frankincenses monster perspective, I saw there is subjective view on East on characters Sane and her gene rate (Arabian). So Ill choose to analyze it by Postcolonial approach Orientation.According to Tyson, as a domain within literary studies, post-colonial criticism is both a subject count as theoretical framework. Tyson, pig 418) So that main assumptions of postcolonial theory is offering an order to analyze and understand more deeply about the oppression of forgiving beings the same with other theories such as feminism, Marxism. The studies was marked by appearance of the account book Orientation by Edward verbalise in 1978. Orientation by Edward Said is a canonical text of heathen studies in which he has challenged the model of orientation or the difference betwixt east and west. Khalids 2011, www. Renaissance. Com) Said argues that Orientation can be found in current westboundern depictions of Arab coatings as irrational, menacing, untrustworthy, dishonest, anti-Western and most importantly prototypical. Orientals discourse discuss and criticize that East is something more inferior than West. The West spread their political orientation about East widely through media, discipline, law, technology, and so on to video display that they are superior that the East. European (colonizer) drill continuously their cultural value to the colonized people that they considers colonized people have no destination.In addition, there also in some literature is often concerned with resolution and imperialism. Orientation rescaling texts which, while their form, content, aims, genre, and disciplining origins may be widely divergent, still work with negative, stereotyped or unexamined. (Childs and Williams post-colonial theory, pig 115) In Shelley Frankincense, although she offend the East in short period through character Sane and her flummox. I think it can be caused large influence for the reader when realize about Eastern culture is so primitive and cruel.Sane describe as a passive Arabian women, who clearly dependent on her religion and the culture of her n ation. In the third-world, feminist ideology is shown little to the woman because hat is subordinated by patriarchal system which is ingrained in their culture and power in their country. Can be seen the difference between sane and European community, when she was involved in much pressure from patriarchal system ( her father ) and system in her society ( Arab ). But Canes action show that she does not like her family tradition and religion of her time.Political, cultural, and Arabian religion shaping her mind increasingly to pay attention to the domestic ideology of the European. When the monster sound out the story about Canes mother is a Christian Arab who were taken as a slave by the Turkish because of her beautiful Canes father marry her. She teach Sane about kindness of being Christianity and forbid Sane to follow Muhammad purpose. We can see in this sentence She instructed her daughter in the tenets of her religion, and taught her to aspire to higher(prenominal) powers of intellect, and an independence of spirit, forbidden to the female to followers of Mohamed. Page 127) My opinion about this statement is clearly viewed that negative image or a stereotyped of Muhammad thought as primitive teaching and many oppression to the woman. Canes love to Felix is also a symbol that Safe already has been in love to another culture and religion. We can see in Frankincense page 127 The prospect of marrying Christian and remaining in a country where women are allowed to take a rank in society, was enchanting her. This is the implication of cultural colonization which is the colonizer thought about colonized has not the high uncivilized like them.And also, Canes father expound as a cruel Arabian man through his action that are untrustworthy, dishonest, and anti-Western. Associated with the opinion of Said One would find kind of procedure less objectionable as a lattice propaganda which is what it is, of course were it not accompanied by sermons on the objectivity , the fairness, the impartiality of real historian, the implication always being that Muslims and Arabs cannot be objective but that Orientations .In Monsters perspective, Canes father become the cause of the ruin of De Lackeys family life. There also subjective view about Turkish man that they are unwholesome people. (chapter 14) Begin from Felix is falling in love with Sane, and her father was caged because of his fault to the France government. Then Felix come to accomplish ether of Safe in order to marry Sane, because Canes father already promise to Felix to married off Sane and Felix. But actually father of Sane does not allow that his daughter live together with Felix.So that when Felix save his life, he make a plan to take his daughter to come back to their native country. We can see in The Turks allowed this intimacy to take place and encouraged the hopes of the youthful lovers he loathed the idea that his daughter should be united to a Christian if he should choose to bet ray him to the Italian state which they inhabited. (Frankincense, g 128) The monster, its self also a symbol of colonized people. Said explains how the science of the orientation developed and how the Orientals started considering the Orientals as non-human beings. ( Khalids,2011. Winnipesaukee. Com ) I think when the monster is rejected from Victor and other people (colonizer) because his scary body and face, different from other (colonized), its implied colonizer refuse that non-western include into human beings. At first, the monster born with no procreation and culture, I also think that it is the gap that was created, which is the colonized ere barbarians who had no civilization, does not have system of government, religion, and customs.Thus the monster studying language from France family, and also reading book from white people, this is the implied meaning of colonizer had high civilization. A brief conclusion, Orientals were come in 19th by Edward Said, and he also argues t hat Orientation is a critics to reject the long tradition about the Western is more superior than the Eastern. In Frankincense written by Mary Shelley, there some Orientals issues that appear in, the concept of tethering and negative elf-image of the Western way of thinking about Eastern which put Eastern as an object.