From a feminist reading Angela Carter does this by showing women in male dominated environments and letting the reader witness the corrupt that ensues. Shelley portrays Frankenstein’s monster as victim and thus the reader sees that he was born innocent and moral but is also corrupted. Carter provides a more satisfying conclusion as her heroine is able to revert back to her moral nature whereas the monster is forever cauterised from feeling and thus beyond reproach.
We learn that the purity and morality of the narrator is restored in the end; 'I inherited wealth but had given most of it away to charities.' However, she does not live unscathed as she bares the bloody mark which the key left when her husband pressed it to her forehead, this links to the idea of the stained and impure woman.
We also she that she finds love that empowers her this time in the blind piano tuner who helped her through her ordeal. His blindness is significant, because he cannot see her, her cannot objectify, watch or trap her as her other husband did, but most importantly, he cannot see her mark of