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. After the deaths of Caroline and her siblings “grief had given softness and a winning mildness to her
Frankenstein can be read as a tale of what happens when a man tries to create a child without a woman. It can, however, also be read as an account of a woman's anxieties and insecurities about her own creative and reproductive capabilities. The story of Frankenstein is the first articulation of a woman's experience of pregnancy and related fears. Mary Shelley, in the development and education of the monster, discusses child development and education and how the nurturing of a loving parent is extremely important in the moral development of an individual. Thus, in Frankenstein, Mary Shelley examines her own fears and thoughts about pregnancy, childbirth, and child development.
The role of the child throughout Frankenstein are primarily focused upon by Walton, Frankenstein, Elizabeth, William and the monster. They all resemble in some cases Shelley’s own childhood, from her independent study to the expectation put on her as a girl. There are resembles aspects of her lost children, through understanding William and the monster. Each character characteristics of childhood differ to resemble a number of 19th century aspects of theoretical and social understandings. Walton’s description of his small sample of childhood reveals his low educational background and a somewhat rebellious nature that resists his sister foreboding fear. Both Frankenstein and Elizabeth’s childhood was primarily principled by the educational theories
Justine plays one of the most passive roles within the story. Whenever Justine is faced with something she does not like or want to do, she does nothing. An Example is when her mother came to take her back home. She did not want to go, but she went anyway. Her passiveness eventually leads to her demise. Before victor heads back to Geneva, William Frankenstein is murdered, and the blame is on Justine.
A predominant theme in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is that of child-rearing and/or parenting techniques. Specifically, the novel presents a theory concerning the negative impact on children from the absence of nurturing and motherly love. To demonstrate this theory, Shelly focuses on Victor Frankenstein’s experimenting with nature, which results in the life of his creature, or “child”. Because Frankenstein is displeased with the appearance of his offspring, he abandons him and disclaims all of his “parental” responsibility. Frankenstein’s poor “mothering” and abandonment of his “child” leads to the creation’s
Frankenstein puts his life at risk, as well as others trying to acquire knowledge, which he put over his family and his health. The monster is on a path of self-discovery about where he is from, and how to survive. He also patiently learns how to speak and read. Through the “sanguinary laws of man”(Shelley123), the creature learns that it is acceptable to kill in certain circumstances, leading to the death of innocent people. As a result of Felix’s story, he learns how to manipulate the judicial system, leading him to deliberately frame Justine Moritz for William’s death.
In Ellen Moers’ critical essay Female Gothic: The Monster’s Mother (1974) on Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, she argues that Mary Shelley’s story is greatly influenced by her experience of motherhood. This essay uses the historical approach, biographical, and formalist approach at point. Moers references the cultural context of the novel, Mary Shelley’s experience as a woman and mother and how that influenced her writing, and focuses on the genre of the novel quite a bit.
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Frankenstein feels utter remorse when he is aware that Justine will not be spared. An analogy is used here Justine's tortures are being compared to those of Frankenstein. A sophisticated metaphor
In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein the critical essay “Lesbian Panic and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” (“Lesbian Panic”) by Frann Michel approaches Frankenstein from a gender perspective and applies Adrienne Rich’s lesbian continuum, the “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence” where female relationships, mother-daughter/sisters/female friendships which all fall under the umbrella of lesbian relations, to the relationships that are present in Frankenstein. Frann Michel clarifies through her essay that any work of literature that takes a critical point of view of heterosexual relationships is, in fact, a lesbian text. Michel states that in Frankenstein the motion of lesbian panic is prevalent because lesbian desire is avoided at all costs – during the 1800’s society was rampant with panic, or phobia, amongst those who were afraid of potential sexual desires with one another. Lesbians were considered “Sapphic monstrosities” (Michel 351). In placing female characteristics on all characters in the novel Michel argues, in “Reading Mothers and Lovers”, that Victor Frankenstein’s “maternal anxiety” and his creature’s unfulfilled desire for a female is a doubling of them reflecting with their female counterparts under the lesbian continuum (Michel 355). In “Difference and Desire” Michel claims that Justine and Elizabeth’s tender moments at the end of Justine’s life comes to an end as a result of her unjust confinement and murder. The creature created by Victor is henceforth the
The horror classic novel Frankenstein has gathered a great deal of critical and commercial attention since first being introduced in 1818, and naturally there has been many academics who have analyzed many of the novel’s biggest themes, symbols, and motifs. This also includes in analyzing the author herself, Mary Shelley. Marcia Aldrich, who has her Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington, is one of the academics to underline the role of being a female writer in the 19th century and what importance this plays on the novel Frankenstein. In her article, co-written by Richard Isomaki, “The Woman Writer as Frankenstein” analyzes the significance of Mary Shelley being the daughter of a writer and how this contributed to her writing Frankenstein, which they speculate as her, Mary Shelley, envisioning herself as the Monster. Aldrich and Isomaki’s “The Woman Writer as Frankenstein” makes valid and persuasive points, which effectively argues that the novel is semi-autobiographical in the sense that Mary Shelley pictured her as the Frankenstein Monster, for many of the concerns that the authors bring up in their article highlight the insecurities, doubts, and inexorable frustrations of a young woman writing in the 19th century.
Justine Moritz is the first minor character that has a significant role assists in developing the plot. Justine Moritz was the lovely servant who has been with the Frankenstein family since she was a little girl. She was the caretaker of William Frankenstein and has great love towards the Frankenstein family. Justine is a key component that helps with the character development of Victor
Innovation, ingenuity, and individuality are at the base of creativity. As a child I always thought outside the box exploring ideas in a different perspective in order to encapture the true meaning of the question at hand. Growing up in an art enduring environment certainly persuaded my passion towards visual media, as my pieces often reflected values of Dr.Seuss, Andy Warhol and Keith Haring. Whenever I felt frustrated or incapable I always relied on the ability to express my emotions throughout writing, sculpting or even drawing. The ability to reveal my inner conflicts without restraint or indignation is what allowed me to find a release in a stressful situation.
In The Glass Menagerie, Laura Winfield is like a fragile piece of glass, like many of her glass animals in her collection. The whole play is based around a dysfunctional family and their challenges adapting to life. Laura, with her physical and mental disabilities, isn’t able to survive in the world, so she isolates herself. She makes a whole world to herself inside the apartment filled with her symbolic glass figurine collection. (Her unicorn, in particular.) There is one time, in particular, when she seems to be improving. This is the scene where Jim O’Connor visits and she is finally coming out of her shell and likes being around him. The scene sticks out to the others because Laura never possessed the capacity to much consider a conversation
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein demonstrates a variety of women from distinct backgrounds where the majority faces a doomed fate due to the patriarchal society. Furthermore, the overall representation of women in Frankenstein is passiveness and submissiveness towards the decision and actions of men; they are portrayed as absent due to their minor roles. The “absence” of women could have been the very reason why there are so many downfalls throughout the novel. The death of Victor’s mother due to scarlet fever, the innocent Justine executed, Elizabeth (the beautiful wife) killed by the creature, proves the powerlessness and the passive nature of women that led to their unfortunate death even though, the only woman, Safie broke the chains of the
The female characters in Frankenstein represent the treatment of women in the early 1800’s. Women who are deprived of their female roles and are enclosed in a feminine sphere of domesticity. In the novel, Frankenstein, the women characters are treated as property and have little privileges in relationship to the male characters, the women suffer and are eventually destroyed showing how unimportant they are in the book’s society, and when it comes to reproduction of human’s, man thinks it pointless to have women play that role. These attacks on the innocent prove that women are second-rate in the novel.