Can you imagine Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein, the great work of literature, without, for example, female characters such as Mrs. Margaret Saville, Elizabeth Lavenza and Justine Moritz? In this case the novel will have no meaning. All the women help develop the plot, and without them Frankenstein will lose his spirit. Although these heroines have a lot in common in their characters: they are all strong-willed, kind, attentive and selfless, at the same time each of them is unique and each plays their own role in the novel. Mrs. Margaret Saville is the woman to whom the narrator tells the story. Elizabeth Lavenza is Victor Frankenstein's beloved. Justine Moritz is the heroine mistakenly accused of killing William and executed in the demon's place. There is a close connection between female and male characters, and if we break that, Frankenstein will no longer make sense. The novel's author, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly, characterizes women equally as men and shows that they are independent actors. So the female characters in Frankenstein are as important as the male ones. Margaret Saville is the person to whom Robert Walton, the narrator, writes his letters. We know nothing directly about his life, his worldview or his habits, but we can imagine his feelings about his brother's feat, his worry and his fear. What can he feel when he reads the following words of his brother: "You will not hear of my destruction, and you will eagerly await my return. Years will pass, and you will have visits of despair, and yet you will be tortured by hope" (1027)? These words can only arouse bitterness and inflict spiritual wounds. We cannot read what he writes in response to Robert Walton... in the middle of the paper... and the images of Robert Walton, Victor Frankenstein and the demon complement each other. If we take one away, the plot of Frankenstein will be different. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley uses the same methods to create male and female characters and makes women even more positive, selfless and pure than men. The presence of women adds romance to the novel, without which Frankenstein loses its spirit. Mrs. Margaret Saville, Elizabeth Lavenza and Justin Moritz act independently, and in the most difficult moments of their lives they encourage men and take care of them while forgetting about themselves. So both female and male characters in Frankenstein are important and we cannot do without them. The only question about the position of women in the novel remains open: if the author of Frankenstein were a man, the demon would become a woman??