B

B. When Frankenstein was written, it was to understand the importance of family. The Monster’s creation, murder and revenge were because of incomplete or dysfunctional family. Frankenstein family didn’t have a mother and Elizabeth had to take the role. Everyone had hard times through out the book but Elizabeth was the one who had the hardest time to endure. She had to take every responsibility like a mother but couldn’t be involved in other things because she was a woman. Being the only female in the family and a lover to Victor Frankenstein who was so far away had to be heart breaking. Of this incomplete family, Victor creates the Monster then shuns the Monster right after his creation and leaves him by himself in the world. It is the same situation with the Frankenstein family but worse; the Monster doesn’t have even one person as a family beside him. All the things the Monster learns from the De Lacey family who also had a dysfunctional family, eventually leads him to wanting a partner that he can relate to and asks Victor to help. Everything is related to families and shows how important families are; it summarizes every part of the story to a good conclusion. ‘Families are a very important part of the structure of the novel’ and it is very agreeable to say that that was Mary Shelley’s intentions when it came to writing the novel.