ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Elizabeth is an orphan child adopted by the Frankensteins . She becomes a devoted daughter, sister and eventually wife to Victor. She is an idealised character who is beautiful, loyal, trusting, sympathetic and caring towards others-almost too perfect.

Detailed explanation-2: -Frankenstein explains that he saw Elizabeth as his “possession.” He seems to believe that this demonstrates how much he loved her, but his story suggests that he took her for granted.

Detailed explanation-3: -Elizabeth Lavenza is the orphan child taken in by the Frankenstein family, who was lovingly raised with Victor Frankenstein; she later becomes Victor’s wife and is killed by the monster on their honeymoon. Elizabeth was the daughter of a Milanese nobleman and a German mother.

Detailed explanation-4: -Fond of her from the start, Victor describes Elizabeth as “docile and good tempered, yet gay and playful as a summer insect, ” as well as “lively and animated, ” but with an uncommonly affectionate disposition and feelings that are strong and deep.

Detailed explanation-5: -After her mother’s death, Elizabeth’s father-intending to remarry-writes to Victor’s father and asks if he and his wife would like to adopt the child and spare her being raised by a stepmother (as Mary Shelley had unhappily been). In the original novel, then, Victor and Elizabeth are cousins.