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 Here Is a vlog I made about my experience with Anne Rice's Interview With A Vampire.     P.S. Here is the vampire song I made for the video 

On The Subject of Justine Moritz There are very few notable characters in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein . Charitably, there are four. Two are silent characters with varying levels of importance to the story (Victor’s mother, and the unborn female counterpart to Frankenstein’s monster) and two are speaking characters (Elizabeth Lavenza, and Justine Moritz). All end the story dead, or in the case of the female Frankenstein’s monster, destroyed further. The female characters in Frankenstein seem to exist as ornaments, either used to highlight Victor’s torment, or to demonstrate the horror of the monster. A microcosm of Shelley’s portrayal of female characters is Justine Moritz. Though her appearance in the story was brief, it was enough to make her my favorite character in the book. Shelley portrays Justine Moritz as a tragic, angelic figure. Justine’s first appearance in chapter six details her home life and backstory, she was despised by her mother, and blamed for the deaths of her sibli