Select one or two quotes from “Lesbian Panic and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” (F 349-67) and place them in the following paragraph where they would best support the claims being made.  Be prepared to explain the reasons behind the choices you make.
 

     In a novel that pays comparatively little attention to the needs of its female characters, the desires these characters feel are nevertheless significant to the overall understanding of the novel.  For example, in Elizabeth’s case her strongest expressions of emotion are not directed toward Victor, to whom she does reveal a strong connection, but rather to Justine, whose death early in the novel has a profound effect on Elizabeth. Even before that death, though, Elizabeth reveals to Victor:  “I love her tenderly. She is very clever and gentle, and extremely pretty” (Shelley 68).  When Justine is sentenced to die, Elizabeth’s emotions become more pronounced:  “You shall not die!  . . . I never could survive so horrible a misfortune” (84), and later she tells Justine that she wishes “that I were to die with you; I cannot live in this world of misery” (85). Certainly, these expressions reveal a stronger connection than would be typically found between servant and mistress, and resemble those usually found between lovers in conventional sentimental fiction.  After Justine’s death, Victor is powerfully moved by “the deep and voiceless grief of my Elizabeth” (85). The silence of this grief suggests a passion that cannot be publicly acknowledged.