Female Roles In Frankenstein By Mary Shelley

Throughout Frankenstein by Mary Shelley female characters are in the novel, but none of them have played a strong role in the book. Mary Shelley’s mother was a writer and advocate of women’s rights, and while Mary Shelley does write off of her personal experiences; in this case she does not. Elizabeth, Caroline, and Justine’s passive roles in Frankenstein are what Mary Shelley uses to draw attention to the monster and Victor’s behavior, and gender roles.
The female characters were only used to help develop a lesson or story for a male character. For example, Elizabeth personifies the motif of passive women the most as she is waiting for the attention of Victor. While Victor is the center of all the chaos he gives no attention to Elizabeth,