Analysis Of The Poem My Words From The Village Of...

In Susan Stryker’s â€Å"My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage†, Stryker creates an intimate linkage between Frankenstein’s monster and the transsexual body. Like Frankenstein, a transsexual person owns an â€Å"unnatural† body and an identity defined completely by medical practice. And like Frankenstein, a transsexual person encounters countless challenges, discrimination, and hatred from normal people. Normal people deem transsexual existence as the embodiment of a monster which possesses â€Å"an unassimilable, antagonistic, queer relationship to a Nature† (Stryker 5). However, instead of running away, Stryker chooses to embrace co’s transsexual identity and lives in darkness with an identity of a seemingly cruel and despise-able monster. Stryker starts to pose a question that demands an answer: â€Å"Is monster really inferior than a human being, and does a natural body actually exis t?†. Most people would not react positively to the words you are a monster! Because, let s face it, no one thinks of monsters as beautiful creations, but as grotesque and defy the laws of nature and God. However, in Susan Stryker s essay, co explores what it really means to be a monster, applying this concept to transsexualism. Stryker argues that everyone is monster, like Frankenstein, in their own way, as no one today is natural. Co says that, â€Å"[t]he transsexual body is an unnatural body. It is the product of medical science. It is a technological