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Frankenstein Feminist Analysis

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Further in the story, Victor already decides the female monster’s fate, as the creature demands a mate. This is a recurring theme scene in Frankenstein. Moreover, Elizabeth is not the only individual female character who is under Victor’s control; in fact, Victor presents the female monster to the creature as a bargaining tool, before decimating her; “I shall deliver in your hands a female who will accompany you on your exile” (Shelley,137). Alike Motif in Shelley’s novel, men repeatedly decide women’s fate, and the women are left to accept these verdicts without any objection. In conclusion, the female characters fulfill the role of an object in the novel. The passive dispositions of female characters in Frankenstein are symbolic to how women
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