William Veeder "The Women in Frankenstein" Discussion Questions
** Homework Questions ** General:
What is "true woman"?
Who is John Calvin?
Specific:
According to Veeder, what destroys the Women in Frankenstein?
Explain the five forces acting against Justine in court.
Explain: "Her bafflement confirms less her analytical weakness
than the weakness of analysis itself" (272).
Explain: "Had she wanted to indict true woman for passive weakness,
Mary would have made Justine's fate dependent upon her giving in" (272).
Explain: "Mary Shelley reveals in true woman not a 'feminine'
weakness which destroys her but a radical purposiveness which releases
her" (273). From what is she released?
How is Justine's death a "retaliation"?
What does "self-victimized" mean? How is Justine self-victimized?
