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Strangers and Hospitality in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
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This paper explores the issue of strangers and of hospitality in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, based on Kant’s concept of hospitality as “the right of a stranger” and on Derrida’s discussion of hospitality. It first examines the similarities between the domestic relations within the Frankenstein family and Frankenstein’s relation to the monster: an effort to create unity out of a multiplicity of elements, and what can be called a “debt economy.” Then,reading the animation scene of the monster as a version of the advent of a stranger, it deals with the question of hospitality. More specifically, the arrival of Clerval immediately follows the animation of the monster because it effectively dramatizes the paradox that there is no hospitality without hostility. The opposition and the apposition between hospitality and hostility are also seen in the De Lacey family’s welcoming Safie and rejecting the monster. Frankenstein’s failure and the De Lacey family’s failure to welcome the monster show that hospitality as “right” exemplified by Kantian hospitality does not apply to a stranger like the monster who has neither name nor relation and who is categorized into what Derrida terms “an absolute other.” This paper also looks at Safie’s problematic subversion against her father, which loses its subversive charge in the context of racial relations between Turkish Mahometans and European Christians. Safie’s father looms large in the context of the issue of hospitality because his episode suggests that the category of race causes hospitality to malfunction.
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This paper explores the issue of strangers and of hospitality in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, based on Kant’s concept of hospitality as “the right of a stranger” and on Derrida’s discussion of hospitality. It first examines the similarities between the domestic relations within the Frankenstein family and Frankenstein’s relation to the monster: an effort to create unity out of a multiplicity of elements, and what can be called a “debt economy.” Then,reading the animation scene of the monster as a version of the advent of a stranger, it deals with the question of hospitality. More specifically, the arrival of Clerval immediately follows the animation of the monster because it effectively dramatizes the paradox that there is no hospitality without hostility. The opposition and the apposition between hospitality and hostility are also seen in the De Lacey family’s welcoming Safie and rejecting the monster. Frankenstein’s failure and the De Lacey family’s failure to welcome the monster show that hospitality as “right” exemplified by Kantian hospitality does not apply to a stranger like the monster who has neither name nor relation and who is categorized into what Derrida terms “an absolute other.” This paper also looks at Safie’s problematic subversion against her father, which loses its subversive charge in the context of racial relations between Turkish Mahometans and European Christians. Safie’s father looms large in the context of the issue of hospitality because his episode suggests that the category of race causes hospitality to malfunction.
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