For example at each crisis episode , these women are
unable to react promptly and properly . At the death of William ,
Elizabeth , the most elaborated female character of the novel "fainted ,
and was restored with extreme difficulty (Shelley 70 . Justine behaves
in the similar fashion "[T]he morning on which the murder of poor
William had been discovered , Justine had been taken ill , and confined to
her bed for several days (Shelley 76 . Their existence is overshadowed
by male characters . They behave...






