frankenstein quotes

the role of women

• "her hair was the brightest living gold"
• "crown of distinction"
• "heaven sent"
• "celestial stamp"
• "child fairer than a pictured cherub"
• "saintly soul of elizabeth shone like a shrine dedicated lamp" sibilance to emphasise
• "the guardian angel of my life"
• "his daughter attended him" women weak/slaves
• "he strove to shelter her as the fair exotic is sheltered by the gardener" women are vulnerable-gardener grows flowers-women are flowers... pretty but usless unless for the pleasure to look at, powerless. irony: frank judges everything by how it looks
• his parents are a "silken cord" mother is delicate? comodity
• elizabeth was a weak child but beautiful and frank's father moulded her-women controlled by men
• "i have a pretty present for…