Thursday, 25 October 2012

Elizabeth


  • Selfless, "she forgot even her own regrets in her endeavour to make us forget." Shows the humanity of Elizabeth that even though she herself is undergoing hardship and internal turmoil, she put the emotional well-being of her family at the foreground of her agenda. Sharp contrast to how Victor turns away the monster due to his own internal feelings of horror in order to look after his own creation, who could even been seen as his own son, showing inhumanity and a lack of paternal instincts. 
  • When Elizabeth writes the letter to Victor, and  discusses that she "regretted not being able to perform it by myself" Reminiscent to Victors mother wanting to look after Elizabeth. Could portray the idea that the maternal bond is stronger than the paternal as Victor loathes his creation.
  • "My uncle is not pleased with the idea of a military career in a distant country" The idea of travelling is still looked at with dismay by people in this century.
  • Even seemingly good characters like Elizabeth are weak to human traits such as judging based on looks. "Her ugly sister" 
  • "A fellow creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends" She is again falseness and is unhappy that all the the people who supposedly supported Justine has suddenly turned on her- is ignorant to the fact that Victor knows it wasn't her and is willing to let her die so he doesn't have to reveal to all about his creation. 
  • "Endeavouring to plunge me into the abyss" Foreshadowing her death. 

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