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Justine's Role In Frankenstein
The function of a character who appears only briefly or not at all in a work. Mary Shelly acme portrays women as passive, innocent, and disposable. The women are used for nothing more than a way to get to the male characters. Things happen to the women usually in order to teach the men a lesson or create emotion within the men. Throughout the novel, it is evident that every female character has a sole purpose for an ephemeral amount of time and then is no longer needed. Justine’s role in the story is one that is needed for a very short period of time and then is deemed useless after the paroxysm of the murder of William Frankenstein that was actually committed by the monster, who’s plan were malice. She does not sophisms the accusations,

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