The first example that comes to mind is Elizabeth's illness and the death of her and Victor's mother, Caroline: “Elizabeth had caught scarlet fever; her illness was serious and she was in the greatest danger. […] Elizabeth was saved […] On the third day my mother fell ill […] accompanied by the most alarming symptoms. […] She died calmly…” (Shelley 19) In the first twenty pages of the novel, the reader is projected an image of how weak women are in the face of a virus much smaller than them. While one survived the deadly symptoms, the one who could be considered more of a woman died. This removal of almost two female characters so early is a representation of the fragility of the female sex. This isn't the only time feminism is removed from the novel. In an article titled “The Monster in a Dark Room: Frankenstein, Feminism, and Philosophy,” Nancy Yousef states that “It is not surprising that the creature's unbirth, occluding an unavoidably feminine act, has dominated feminist interpretations of Frankenstein.” (Yousef 198) Hitting the nail on the head, Yousef makes an excellent point. The creature was not born by any natural means as it was Victor's creation. By eliminating the natural birth of a human being through a woman's reproductive organs, Shelley makes a statement about the oppression of the female sex in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In an essay written by Diane Long Hoeveler, she also rightly points out that “The fact that Victor constructs the [female] body and then, when contemplating the realities of sexuality, desire, and reproduction, tears that body apart, suggests that the The female body is infinitely more threatening and "monstrous" for Victor than the creature's male body was." (Hoeveler 52) Hoeveler essentially states that the female body is a threat to the male sex and was more horrific