Maharaja krishnakumarsinhji Bhavanagar university M.A English DepartmentPrepared by :krupali k lewade

M.A Sem:2

Subject :paper5 Romantic Literature

Topic of presentation : Status Of female in fankenestein

Status of Female in frankenstein

Elizabeth Levenza

Justine Mortiz

Caroline Beaufort

Elizabeth Levenza

She is an orphan girl, four to five years younger than victor, whom frankenstein adopt. Elizabeth embodies the novel’s motif of passive women.

Justine Mortiz

A girl adopted in to frankenstain’s household while victor is growing up.

Caroline Beaufort

The daughter of Beaufort. After her father’s death, caroline is taken in by, and latter marries,

Role of Female :- First Caroline Beaufort

Frankeinstein’s father first encountered while she was tendering to her dying father with great tenderness. she is an exceptional women.

“Her soft and benevolent mind” ultimately allows her to marry frankeinstein’s father.

Even in the ultimate trial, her own death, Beaufort shows no sign of character flaws or common weakness.

For Beaufort , it was a necessity, a passion, for her to act.. it is her divine duty that she encounters Elizabeth.

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Her divine imagery is continued when Beaufort describes as a “ blessings’’ on their family.

Woman portrays as wonderful but dependent on the men for provision.

Novel as attempting to usurp the role of women by new life.

But shelley’s query is not man usurping woman but of mankind usurping God.

Justine serves perfect character in the novel. Elizabeth describes her as “ softness and winning mildness”

In the face of injustice , justine submits to the judical system, saying

“ I must be condemned, although I would pledge my slevation on my innocence “

One question arouses that whether her submissive nature is a result of gender or class ?

She is seen as the target of pity. The finale aspect of jusine’s magnified character as crucial link frankeinstein draws between outward beauty and inner perfection.

Passive women:- The novel littered with passive women

who suffer calmly and then expire. Beaufort is a self-sacrificing mother who

dies taking care of her adopted daughter.

justine is executed for murder , despite

her innocence; the creation of the female monster is aborted by victor.

Elizabeth waits, impatient but helpless for victor to return to her, and she is eventually murdered by the monster.

Symbolic significance of the death of female figure

The Death of justine Her death is symbolic of the terrible insignificance of her and the overall repression of female by victor

The Death of Elizabeth The Death of passive Elizabeth symbolize the sexual inequality of the novel’s female character. Elizabeth becomes sacrificial victim to male’s ego.

Women were presented as intelligent and submissive. So we can say that she presents the creture as the way she saw women in her society.

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