Elizabeth Lavenza Elizabeth Lavenza Elizabeth Frankenstein ( Lavenza) is a fictional character first introduced in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus". In both the novel and its various film adaptations, she is the fiancée of Victor Frankenstein. Born in Italy to an Italian nobleman and a German woman, Elizabeth Lavenza was adopted by Victor's family during a stay on Lake Como, after her parents' death. While Victor's cousin in the original 1818 release of the novel, in Shelley's 1831 rewrite she is first introduced as Victor Frankenstein's unrelated, adopted sister. Victor describes her as his perfect woman: young, beautiful,
The Post-Modern Prometheus played at the end of the episode when the agents take The Great Mutato to a Cher concert. In the episode, the character watches Cher's 1985 movie "Mask", and derives comfort from the loving relationship between Cher's character and her son, who has a disfiguring genetic bone disorder. At the end of the episode, Mulder and Scully take The Great Mutato from his small town to a Cher concert, where she picks him out of the crowd to dance. The episode contains several cultural references. First, the episode's title is a reference to both the subtitle for Shelley's original novel,