Women - Frankenstien

Question 1

What does Elizabeth and Victors relationship highlight?

Answer 1

The patriarchal attitude

Question 2

How is Elizabeth treated in the Frankenstein family?

Answer 2

She is an outsider and yet is taken in and is treated like an object.

Question 3

Who is Elizabeth’s happiness dependant on? What does this dependence on a man show?

Answer 3

Frankenstein, It makes Elizabeth vulnerable as she is dependant on a reckless and self centred man

Question 4

1) “heaven - __”
- she is too perfect for what? her death seem what? emphasises what?

Answer 4

1) sent
- for the corrupt world, inevitable, the control victor has over her

Question 5

2) “mine to __,..mine only”
- repetition? victor is extremely what of Elizabeth?, lack of?

Answer 5

2) protect
- of mine, possessive and obsessive over her, choice for ‘other’ beings

Question 6

3) “__ dedicated lamp in our peaceful home”
- what does this show? gaze? what does this gaze show?

Answer 6

3) shrine
- worshipping something, male, the male gaze is when men only see women for their beauty

Question 7

4) “a pretty __ for my victor”
- presented? who is the owner? decrease what?

Answer 7

4) present
- an object, victor, will decrease Elizabeth’s value

Question 8

How is Caroline presented? How does she die? How does that present women?

Answer 8

Depicted as a martyr, she dies after getting the scarlet fever from Elizabeth, it will show them to be weak and fragile

Question 9

5) “fair exoctic is sheltered by the __”
- in need of what?

Answer 9

5) gardener
- protection and saving

Question 10

Who is Safie? Who is she similar to? What is the difference between them?

Answer 10

She is an outsider and communicates with the Delacey family, She is similar to the monster, Her beauty allows her to be accepted

Question 11

6) “in an evil hour I __ to a lie”
- what does she do with her life?

Answer 11

6) subscribed
- she takes charge of it

Question 12

What is Justines name similar to? Technique? What type of class is she?

Answer 12

Justice, Irony, Lower class female

Question 13

What does Justine accept after confessing through what?

Answer 13

She accepts her fate socially after falsely confessing through catholic guilt

Question 14

What is the difference between victor and Elizabeth in court?

Answer 14

Elizabeth stands up for Justine even though she is powerless and Victor is selfish as he only cares for himself

Question 15

7) “sad and __ world”
- how is this similar to the monster? who doesn’t abandon Justine?

Answer 15

7) bitter
- he leave into disappearing darkness, Elizabeth

Question 16

8) “__ her bitter tears”
- what 2 things condemn her?

Answer 16

8) repressed
- her social status and gender

Question 17

9) “exquisitely __”
- what 2 contexts does this relate to and explain?

Answer 17

9) beautiful
- physiognomy- must be innocent due to her beauty, the French Revolution - rich exploiting the poor and the poor dying which starting the wc rebellion

Question 18

The rejection of what relationship is crucial to the novel?

Answer 18

The parent to child relationship, there is a repeated rejections of the monster which forms the key aspects to the novel.

Question 19

What language does Shelley use for Elizabeth to emphasise what? The language used to present Justine depicts her as what?

Answer 19

She uses religious languages to emphasise Elizabeth’s purity and virtue. As a victim

Question 20

What does Shelly do to show the difference of the treatment the delacey have for safie and for the monster?

Answer 20

Safie has different cultures and language like the monster yet the accept her but not him.

Question 21

How are the monster and victor different?

Answer 21

The monster realised and destroys his own happiness whilst victor fails to recognise the importance of an equal for the monster which shows his ignorance.

Question 22

What did Shelley’s father write? Why did Shelley’s father reject her?

Answer 22

Enquiry concerning political justice - the treatment of powerlessness people. She went to Europe with Percy which has impacted her writing.

Question 23

What does the novel actually show?

Answer 23

Forces of patriarchy and domesticity

Question 24

Why does victor delay in marrying Elizabeth?

Answer 24

It suggest the misled desire he had that he prolonged his marriage life.

Question 25

What does Victor fail to recognise until all the women in his life are dead?

Answer 25

The importance and impact they had on his life.

Question 26

What does Victors desire to create without a female symbolise and explain?

Answer 26

A patriarchal denial value of women - he steals the females right to reproduce and eliminates the necessity of females at all.

Question 27

What is Victor afraid of when he is creating the female monster? What does Victor decide for her before she is even born?

Answer 27

He is afraid of an independent female. He decides her sexual life for her.

Question 28

How are domestic roles being presented as? Who are usually the victims of the monster?

Answer 28

Demeaning and vulnerable. It’s usually females.