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15). Her great loss can be seen played out in Frankenstein through the virtual absence of strong women. In the novel Victor Frankenstein's mother dies while he is at the University in Ingolstadt. His stepsister and fiancée, Elizabeth, is orphaned due to the death of her mother in childbirth. Justine, the
nursemaid of Victor's brother, William Frankenstein, is wrongfully executed. Elizabeth herself is taken from the world just before her own marriage.
The monster is motherless as well. Victor in male pride takes the role of the mother and the father of his creation. The Monster's introduction to the female comes through the peek hole of a hovel in the De Lacey house. Even with the De Lacey family however, the mother is absent. It seems rather obvious that having been denied female companionship, the monster would grow to yearn for it (Florescu 84)
The death of Mary's mother undoubtedly contributed to the persistent theme of the absence and ill fatedness of the women in ...

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seen played out throughout the course of Frankenstein. In early myths, Prometheus stole fire from the Gods. The myth says that while at a meal between the mortals and the Gods at Mecone, Prometheus tricked Zeus into accepting bones over the choicest entrails. Man, therefore, was punished by the denial of fire. Prometheus goes on to defy the Gods once again by stealing back the fire. As a punishment, Prometheus was chained to a cliff and an eagle sent by Zeus picked at his liver daily (Wolf 17).
In Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein can be seen most explicitly as "the modern Prometheus." Once intoxicated by the idea of creating a true being, Victor, like Prometheus, will stop at ...

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