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Presentation of Women in Frankenstein Quotes - Coggle Diagram
Presentation of Women in Frankenstein Quotes
Caroline
"My mother's tender caresses… are my first recollections"
"This, to my mother, was more than a duty… for her act in her turn the guardian angel to the afflicted"
"She… by various means contrived to earn a pittance scarcely sufficient to support life"
"His daughter [i.e. Caroline] attended him [her sick father, Beaufort] with the greatest tenderness"
Iconography: Painting of her kneeling by the coffin of her death father & Miniature portrait of Caroline in William's locket (Repeated image throughout the house, propaganda § Modelled on the Virgin Mary - pedestal § Religious idolatry (idol))
Caroline: A virtuous women & establishes this ideal of femininity that will then reproduced in other female characters (text is full of reproduction of Caroline: devoted daughter/wife/mother)
Elizabeth
"Her hair was the brightest living gold,… seemed to set a crown of distinction on her head."
"None could behold her without looking on her as a distinct species, being heaven-sent, and bearing a celestial stamp in all her features"
"She bloomed…fairer than a garden rose among dark-leaved brambles"
"Elizabeth Lavenza became the inmate of my parent's house - my more than sister - the beautiful and adored companion of all my occupations and my pleasures."
“I have a pretty present for my Victor—tomorrow he shall have it.”
"she presented Elizabeth to me as her promised gift, I, [...] looked upon Elizabeth as mine—mine to protect, love, and cherish. [...] I received as made to a possession of my own"
Justine
Ironically named 'Justine' - means righteous or fair but her fate is anything but just
Resigned to her fate, she even exhorts Elizabeth to learn to commit herself to the will of heaven
Safie
"The book from which Felix instructed Safie was Volney’s Ruins of Empires"
"the captive possessed a treasure [Safie]"
"The presence of Safie diffused happiness among its inhabitants"
Safie related that her mother was a Christian Arab, seized and made a slave by the Turks; recommended by her beauty, she had won the heart of the father of Safie, who married her.
Agatha (DeLacey's Daughter)
"The girl was young and of gentle demeanor"
"she looked patient yet sad."
"The silver hair"
"Gentle manners of the girl enticed my love"