Male Characters In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

He leaves Elizabeth alone with the excuse of saving her from the monster, aiming for the destruction of the monster by himself, but instead she is left vulnerable to be murdered by the monster because Elizabeth isn't strong enough to say something back to Victor so she is left to be a vulnerable victim and accept her faith.
Throughout gothic texts women are most often presented as under a powerful influence of men in the patriarchal societies that exist at the time texts are set. One could argue that Frankenstein's character reflects on Shelley's conflicting feelings about how men who surround her are. Male characters in Frankenstein are privileged by being described in depth, given voices and right to explore the world, through Frankenstein's
travels which is something that females were passively excluded from. Wollstonecraft, a great critique, commented on the matter stating that "virtuous male characters were allowed to be of many temperaments, choleric or sanguine, gay or grave, overbearing or submissive – but all women are to be leveled, by meekness and docility, into one character of yielding softness and gentle compliance" and Shelley’s misinterpretation/perversion of female roles within society can be seen as an act of suppressing the patriarchal concepts within literature as well as social conventions within societies, or it could be her way of criticizing the conventional system.