The Importance Of Minor Characters Of ' Frankenstein '

Perhaps the most tragic theme in Frankenstein is that innocent people suffer the most. William, a child, is killed by his brother’s creation Clerval, an optimistic, easygoing young man, is killed by his best friend’s monster, Elizabeth, a uniquely fair, kind-hearted young woman, is killed by her husband’s creature. The Creature himself is also innocent: deserted by his fickle creator, he must fight for his survival in a hateful world. In classic tragic style, the novel ends with the tortured protagonist’s downfall and an ominous, unknown future for the

Can you imagine Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein, the great work of literature, without, for example, such female characters as Mrs. Margaret Saville, Elizabeth Lavenza, and Justine Moritz? In this case the novel will have no meaning. All the women help to develop the plot, and without them Frankenstein will lose its spirit. Although these heroines have a lot in common in their characters: they are all strong-willed, kind, careful, and selfless, at the same time, each of them is unique, and each plays her own role in the novel. Mrs. Margaret Saville is the woman to whom the narrator tells the story. Elizabeth Lavenza is the beloved of Victor Frankenstein. Justine Moritz is the heroine who is accused by mistake of murdering

This leads to Justine being accused for the murder and is forced to death by the government. I believe Mary Shelley intends the reader to dislike Victor because of the wrongful actions he takes. Firstly, when Victor creates the monster, he becomes scared and terrified due to the monster’s physical appearance as result he abandoned it. I noticed that Victor essentially judged the monster by it’s looks rather than the monster’s personality. Alongside the other unfair and uneducated thoughts, the author convinced me that Victor Frankenstein is a hated character.

Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein primarily focuses on Victor and his monster, but women also play a part. There are three major female figures in the novel; the housekeeper for the Frankenstein family: Justine, Victor’s “adopted cousin” and later wife: Elizabeth, and the never completed female monster. To both Victor and the monster woman are desired objects that offer comfort and companionship, but as the novel goes on, women become targets for revenge. This goes to show that the women in Frankenstein prove to be both powerless and powerful when it comes to dealing with the men that surround them.

    In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley combines three separate stories involving three different characters--Walton, Victor, and Frankenstein's monster. Though the reader is hearing the stories through Walton's perspective, Walton strives for accuracy in relating the details, as he says, "I have resolved every night,...to record, as nearly as possible in his [Victor's] own words, what he has related during the day" (Shelley 37). Shelley's shift in point of view allows for direct comparison and contrast between the characters, as the reader hears their stories through the use of first person. As the reader compares the monster's circumstances to those of Victor and Walton, the reader's

The next significant female character in Shelley’s novel, “Frankenstein”, is the character, Justine. Justine is the most pivotal female character in “Frankenstein”, as she is basically framed and executed for a murder that she didn't commit. This drives the novel along because Victor realizes that Justine is innocent and because of this, he starts to have anger and hate towards the creature who really

Select a novel or play in which a tragic figure functions as an instrument of the suffering of others. Then write an essay in which you explain how the suffering brought upon others by that figure contributes to the tragic vision of the work as a whole.

The character is bold and majestic demonstrated when he rejects his duties and responsibilities and goes to the country side where there is peace and nature which contradict widely with his bothered mind. It is clear that nature is significant in Frankenstein’s life. There is sympathy for the creature because there is great significance on the power of nature that people would not complicate life and there would be more sensations and empathy for each other. It is clear that a child’s innocence is corrupted by evil acts due to victimization at some point in their

The idea that women were suppressed by the rigid patriarchal society leading women to become innocent victims in society is explored significantly in Frankenstein . Through a feminine reading perspective, men dictated women in the Victorian era which lead to them being subservient to the hegemony and becoming silenced victims. This theme is a common gothic preoccupation as women were always depicted as passive and had to accept that they were powerless compared to the superiority of men. Many of the female characters suffered from the patriarchal ideologies such as Justine who mentions, "I have no power… I am only left to conjecture concerning the probabilities by which it might have been placed in my pocket". Justine's dialogue characterises and reinforces the concept of women accepting their submissive role of having no voice and being vulnerable, therefore becoming silent victims of society. The vulnerability of women is further explored when the protagonist, Victor, discusses about Elizabeth and mentions that she "regretted she had not the same opportunities of enlarging her experience and cultivating her understanding" which emphasises

Because Caroline knows she will no longer be there to make those sacrifices anymore, she passes the torch to Elizabeth by telling her, “Elizabeth, my love, you must supply my place to my younger children” (Shelley 38). This in turn sets up another generation of confined women in the Frankenstein household. Caroline’s sacrifice and Elizabeth’s adoption of the homemaker role subtly represent the struggle of women in this time period to go against the grain of gender roles in society (Brackett). Not only are women confined to limited caretaker roles in Frankenstein, they are continuously and unreasonably vanquished by larger male roles as well. For example, Justine becomes a pawn ensnared in a masculine game of cat and mouse between two irresponsible male roles, Victor and the Creature. Although she truly took no place in the murder of William, nobody believed her and she is executed because of Victors silence (Brackett). The unwarranted wronging of females occurs once again when the creature shows a complete disregard for women by brutally murdering Elizabeth. The monster leaves her “lifeless and inanimate, thrown across the bed, her head hanging down, and her pale and distorted features half covered by her hair” (Shelley 173). This brash, unadulterated act of savagery towards a woman by a male lead brightly highlights the underlying disposition of men to women, not only in the book, but in Mary Shelley’s era (Brackett). Overall, women in Mary Shelley’s

            Another character that caught my attention was that of Elizabeth. Elizabeth was not related to the Frankenstein?s, however she is taken in by them and grows up as one of their own. She is in every way described in the book as an always compassionate, always innocent, gentle soul. She is kind to all, and even when faced with times of trials and tribulations seems to lift herself above most people to be understanding and compassionate to others. When Victor wants to go away to school, even though she can?t stand the thought of him being away she accepts his decision and wished him well as she does when he decides to travel to England for some time. She accepts Victor?s dejection and despair even though she never understands the cause of it, but most remarkable of all she finds it within herself to believe Justine innocence and even speak on her behalf at the trial. These instances of true compassion and outright empathy are created by Shelley to augment the evil of the monster. Throughout the book Shelley portrays Elizabeth as nothing but perfect. In the story Victor refers to her as ?the best hope,

Justine Moritz is one of the minor characters in the story “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley. She is a young lady that was brought to the Frankensteins household by Caroline, where she was kindly educated and is treated like a human being for which she works as a servant. Moritz was twelve years of age when she began to live with the Frankenstein’s. She came from a family where her mother was a widow with four children, until they all died from an illness except for Justine. Moritz mother “could not endure her” (Shelley 68) because she believed her husband sexualized their daughter, Justine, and blamed her for the death of her other children.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley mostly revolves around Victor Frankenstein, the protagonist, and the plot focuses on his creation of the monster, the antagonist, and the tragic consequences that arise from his actions. As the main focuses of the novel, both Victor and the monster are dynamic characters, and throughout the story, their actions reveal moral dilemmas. Walton, a ship captain, saves Victor in the North and while he is absent during most of the narration, Walton still makes significant appearances at the beginning and the end of the novel. He is a developed character that serves to contrast Victor’s. The minor characters include Elizabeth, Justine, William, Alphonse, and Henry, and while they make sporadic appearances in the novel, they are still significant. As close friends and family to the protagonist, their unwavering concern for Victor’s well-being ultimately influences some of his decisions. However, due to Victor’s guilt-induced isolation from society, their characters are not focused on or explored in depth. Most notably, they function to add to Victor’s misery, and their unfortunate deaths contribute to the novel’s depressing tone.

   In the novel Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, the characters have been portrayed effectively. Much of the interactions between characters, and characteristics of the characters have been based on events which have occurred in Shelley's own life, or they represent what she believes is important. For example, Victor is portrayed as having a strong passion for science, and a poor understanding of relationships. Elizabeth is shown as a stereotypical woman of the time, who is also very powerless. The monster is depicted as being both beautiful and ugly, and someone who the reader feels sympathetic towards. Through the portrayal of her characters, Shelley has created a very effective

Explore the ways Mary Shelley presents the character of the monster in Frankenstein We are prepared for the arrival of the monster in many different ways, before he is created we know the monster is going to be a repulsive figure of a human being, but the reader is still intrigued into reading further, and because of Shelley's descriptive language we already feel disgust towards victors creation, and in doing so, we our-selves become just as callous as those people in the book that neglect Frankenstein's monster. Also because the monster was created by Victor using parts dug up from graves and morgues, and we associate graveyards with horror and death, there is immediately something sinister about the monster and to a