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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Having one's brain swapped with that of a goat would be an undeniably horrifying fate, but considering how Alfie shut Bella in his house and attempted to perform female genital mutilation on her, the audience doesn't feel too bad when it happens to him.]]
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Having Having one's brain swapped with that of a goat would be an undeniably horrifying fate, but considering how Alfie shut Bella in his house and attempted to perform female genital mutilation on her, the audience doesn't feel too bad when it happens to him.]]him.
* CardCarryingVillain: He merely chuckles when Bella surmises that he and Victoria fell in love with each other over their mutual love of casual cruelty.
* CardCarryingVillain: He merely chuckles when Bella surmises that he and Victoria fell in love with each other over their mutual love of casual cruelty.
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* HateSink: Blessington has ''no'' redeeming qualities whatsoever: he's abusive to his servants, imprisons Bella in her home, and makes it clear that he plans to subject her to genital mutilation as a further means of controlling her. And unlike Duncan, who's more of a LovableRogue, Blessington's scenes are played entirely without comedy -- nothing he does is funny, just cruel. As such, no tears are shed when [[spoiler: he's Bella's first "experiment" in mind-swapping, and his fate to live with a goat's brain in his body feels justified.]]
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* FauxAffablyEvil: He is consistently soft-spoken and gentle in the way he speaks, which belies his casual cruelty and desire to control his wife.
* HateSink: Blessington has ''no'' redeeming qualities whatsoever: he's abusive to his servants, imprisons Bella in her home, and makes it clear that he plans to subject her to genital mutilation as a further means of controlling her. And unlike Duncan, who's more of a LovableRogue, Blessington's scenes are played entirely without comedy -- nothing he does is funny, just cruel. As such, no tears are shed when[[spoiler: he's Bella's first "experiment" in mind-swapping, and his fate to live with a goat's brain in his body feels justified.]]justified.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: After Bella chucks the sedative he tried to force onto her back in his face, he ends up accidentally shooting himself with the very gun he used to threaten Bella and the staff.
* HateSink: Blessington has ''no'' redeeming qualities whatsoever: he's abusive to his servants, imprisons Bella in her home, and makes it clear that he plans to subject her to genital mutilation as a further means of controlling her. And unlike Duncan, who's more of a LovableRogue, Blessington's scenes are played entirely without comedy -- nothing he does is funny, just cruel. As such, no tears are shed when
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: After Bella chucks the sedative he tried to force onto her back in his face, he ends up accidentally shooting himself with the very gun he used to threaten Bella and the staff.
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* BrutalHonesty: She hardly ever minces her words when it comes to her opinions, even after she learns about societal norms.
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* BrutalHonesty: She hardly ever minces her words when it comes to her opinions, even after she learns about societal norms.
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* LovableSexManiac: She's an eccentric and inquisitive young woman who develops a positively ''voracious'' sex drive after discovering her sexuality. Even the sex-crazed Duncan can't keep up with her.
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->''"Harry, you wretch, [philosophy] is integral. People and society can be improved."''\\\
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* OldPeopleAreNonsexual: She's an old woman who admits to the younger Bella that she hasn't gotten laid in twenty years, to the latter's horror. Bella is somewhat comforted by how Martha still masturbates, at least.
-->''''Martha:''' As the years pass what is between my ears is my main concern, that between my legs less so.
-->''''Martha:''' As the years pass what is between my ears is my main concern, that between my legs less so.
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->''"Make it better. A better world."''\\\
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->''"Bam. Bam. Bam. Bam."''\\\
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* WouldHurtAChild: PlayedForLaughs. She attempts to punch an infant that annoyed her, though it comes more from her not knowing how much of a societal taboo it is than her intentionally crossing the line.
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* ExtremeDoormate: He usually goes along with Godwin's less-than-ethical demands, though he does start objecting increasingly often after Bella leaves.
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* TheCynic: Harry is an affirmed cynic (as Martha explicitly notes), and shows Bella a scene of abject poverty in Alexandria in order to disabuse her of her idealism -- an act for which he later apologizes.
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* TheCynic: Harry is an affirmed cynic (as Martha explicitly notes), and shows Bella a scene of abject poverty in Alexandria in order to disabuse her of her idealism -- an act for which he later apologizes. Ultimately remaining an optimist, Bella summarizes to him in their last conversation that he is "a broken little boy who cannot bear the pain of the world", Harry reflecting this is largely true.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: [[spoiler:In the nested narrative of the book, it turns out Max- the far less likeable book counterpart to Max- wrote Duncan as an awful cad partially to externalize his own jealousy and possessiveness of Bella/Victoria onto a HateSink who couldn't defend himself. Victoria ''did'' run off with Duncan after Godwin's death, and Duncan ''did'' end up institutionalized, but Victoria remained fond enough of him to visit him and enjoyed their conversations. She writes sadly and affectionately of having played with Duncan until he broke, suggesting he might not have been too bad of a guy during their romance, and may have simply been mentally ill.]]
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* AdaptationalJerkass: [[spoiler:In the nested narrative of the book, it turns out Max- Archibald -- the far less likeable book counterpart to Max- Max -- wrote Duncan as an awful cad partially to externalize his own jealousy and possessiveness of Bella/Victoria onto a HateSink who couldn't defend himself. Victoria ''did'' run off with Duncan after Godwin's death, and Duncan ''did'' end up institutionalized, but Victoria remained fond enough of him to visit him and enjoyed their conversations. She writes sadly and affectionately of having played with Duncan until he broke, suggesting he might not have been too bad of a guy during their romance, and may have simply been mentally ill.]]
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* TheGrotesque: Baxter looks hideous, and he gets up to some pretty amoral experiments, but he's a pretty soft-hearted and loving guy under that scary face.
* AdaptationalJerkass: [[spoiler:In the nested narrative of the book, it turns out Max- the far less likeable book counterpart to Max- wrote Duncan as an awful cad partially to externalize his own jealousy and possessiveness of Bella/Victoria onto a HateSink who couldn't defend himself. Victoria ''did'' run off with Duncan after Godwin's death, and Duncan ''did'' end up institutionalized, but Victoria remained fond enough of him to visit him and enjoyed their conversations. She writes sadly and affectionately of having played with Duncan until he broke, suggesting he might not have been too bad of a guy during their romance, and may have simply been mentally ill.]]
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* CompositeCharacter: In the novel, nearly every male character (including Dr. Baxter and Archie, Max's counterpart) is driven to pathetic, possessive madness by Bella's charms and promiscuity. In the film, that's all given solely to Duncan, to further embroider on the fall from grace he already had in the book and to accommodate Baxter and Max's more sympathetic and empathetic characterizations. Archie's tearing out his own hair when he thinks of Bella with other men is given directly to Duncan, while Max is respectful of Bella's sexual autonomy.
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* CompositeCharacter: In the novel, nearly every male character (including [[spoiler: the fictional version of]] Dr. Baxter and Archie, Max's counterpart) is driven to pathetic, possessive madness by Bella's charms and promiscuity. In the film, that's all given solely to Duncan, to further embroider on the fall from grace he already had in the book and to accommodate Baxter and Max's more sympathetic and empathetic characterizations. Archie's tearing out his own hair when he thinks of Bella with other men is given directly to Duncan, while Max is respectful of Bella's sexual autonomy.
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** [[spoiler:In the book, it's revealed that Godwin was, in reality, young and good-looking, though he ''was'' in Bella/Victoria's words "a big man with sad eyes." Bella/Victoria fell deeply in love with him after he talked her out of getting a clitoridectomy and started teaching her medicine while helping her escape from her awful first husband, but he gently turned her down because he was born with congenital syphilis from his father's infection with it (though it didn't affect his mother) and didn't want to give it to her, nor to make her watch him gradually go insane and lose function from it. He died of euthanasia with his mother's help in a weeping Bella/Victoria's arms, and she never quite got over him. Archie, Max's counterpart, wrote him as a pathetically ugly older man to cope with this.]]
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Max is significantly more able to admit to having been selfish and possessive (in his own understated way) of Bella before she was even fully developed than his book counterpart Archibald. In the book, the account of Bella's life is written by Archibald and is outright said to be a mixture of fabrications, lurid pornography, sexual fantasies, marital insecurities, and Literature/{{Frankenstein}} {{fanfiction}} -- which Bella refutes in her own papers as the product of her husband's fevered and pathetic imagination. Archibald's account is presented as the main story instead of [[NestedStory the story within the story]] in the film and is never implied to be a work of fiction within the confines of the narrative, and the world the film is set in is far more fantastical than the world of the book in order to justify this.
** Perhaps most notably, Archibald's bout of insane, hair-tearing jealousy after learning Bella has slept with other men is grafted directly onto Duncan Wedderburn, while Max tells Bella she's allowed to do as she wishes with her body.
** Perhaps most notably, Archibald's bout of insane, hair-tearing jealousy after learning Bella has slept with other men is grafted directly onto Duncan Wedderburn, while Max tells Bella she's allowed to do as she wishes with her body.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Max is significantly more able to admit to having been selfish and possessive (in his own understated way) of Bella before she was even fully developed than his book counterpart Archibald. In the book, the account of Bella's life is written by Archibald and is outright said to be a mixture of fabrications, lurid pornography, sexual fantasies, marital insecurities, and Literature/{{Frankenstein}} {{fanfiction}} -- which Bella refutes in her own papers as the product of her husband's fevered and pathetic imagination. Archibald's account is presented as the main story instead of [[NestedStory the story within the story]] in the film and is never implied to be a work of fiction within the confines of the narrative, and the world the film is set in is far more fantastical than the world of the book in order to justify this.
**this. Perhaps most notably, Archibald's bout of insane, hair-tearing jealousy after learning Bella has slept with other men is grafted directly onto Duncan Wedderburn, while Max tells Bella she's allowed to do as she wishes with her body.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Max is significantly more able to admit to having been selfish and possessive (in his own understated way) of Bella before she was even fully developed than his book counterpart Archibald. In the book, the account of Bella's life is written by Archibald and is outright said to be a mixture of fabrications, lurid pornography, sexual fantasies, marital insecurities, and Literature/{{Frankenstein}} {{fanfiction}} -- which Bella refutes in her own papers as the product of her husband's fevered and pathetic imagination. Archibald's account is presented as the main story instead of [[NestedStory the story within the story]] in the film and is never implied to be a work of fiction within the confines of the narrative.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Max is significantly more able to admit to having been selfish and possessive (in his own understated way) of Bella before she was even fully developed than his book counterpart Archibald. In the book, the account of Bella's life is written by Archibald and is outright said to be a mixture of fabrications, lurid pornography, sexual fantasies, marital insecurities, and Literature/{{Frankenstein}} {{fanfiction}} -- which Bella refutes in her own papers as the product of her husband's fevered and pathetic imagination. Archibald's account is presented as the main story instead of [[NestedStory the story within the story]] in the film and is never implied to be a work of fiction within the confines of the narrative.narrative, and the world the film is set in is far more fantastical than the world of the book in order to justify this.
**Perhaps most notably, Archibald's bout of insane, hair-tearing jealousy after learning Bella has slept with other men is grafted directly onto Duncan Wedderburn, while Max tells Bella she's allowed to do as she wishes with her body.
**Perhaps most notably, Archibald's bout of insane, hair-tearing jealousy after learning Bella has slept with other men is grafted directly onto Duncan Wedderburn, while Max tells Bella she's allowed to do as she wishes with her body.
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* CompositeCharacter: In the novel, nearly every male character (including Dr. Baxter and Archie, Max's counterpart) is driven to pathetic, possessive madness by Bella's charms and promiscuity. In the film, that's all given solely to Duncan, to further embroider on the fall from grace he already had in the book and to accommodate Baxter and Max's more sympathetic and empathetic characterizations. Archie's tearing out his own hair when he thinks of Bella with other men is given directly to Duncan, while Max is respectful of Bella's sexual autonomy.
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* AdaptationalUgliness: Zig-zagged. Godwin is alarming-looking to the general public in both the book and movie, but in the book he’s simply ”ogreish” and mundanely unattractive. The movie iteration still recognizably has Willem Dafoe’s craggily handsome features, but at the same time his face looks as though it’s been built out of pieces of several other faces that don’t fit together properly, leading his own students to call him a monster.
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** In the book Godwin's physical ailments and malformities are seemingly natural, rather than caused by his father's experiments. As a result there is no hint of animosity unlike we see near the end of the film.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: Godwin in the books is, generally, a much more moral and emotionally normal character, as opposed to the movie version who tries to supress morality and emotion in order to pursue his scientific interests without worry. One example is that book Godwin also has a menagerie of animals, except they're all perfectly normal. He only ever experiments on two rabbits, swapping their upper and lower halves, but swaps them back again as soon as he realises they dislike it. At one point he is asked by Archie (Max in the film) if he or his father were vivisectionists, which deeply hurts him, leading him to comment that neither he or his father have ever harmed a living being. Film Godwin also never acknowleges that he could have saved baby Bella, and allowed her to have a normal childhood and life.
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* YourDaysAreNumbered: [[spoiler: While Bella is missing, Baxter gets weaker and discovers that he's growing a tumor in his belly. Thankfully he manages to live long enough to be reunited with her and pass away in peace with her and Max by his side.]]
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* MirrorCharacter: To Harry Astley. Both are people of color, but Toinette despite her situation supports the socialist cause and works to improve her life after being inspired by Bella's ideals of change, whereas Astley is a free wealthy man but a resigned cynic.
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* MirrorCharacter: To Harry Astley. Both are people of color, but Toinette despite her situation supports the socialist cause and works to improve her life after being inspired by Bella's ideals of change, whereas Astley is a free wealthy man but a resigned SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids cynic.
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* MirrorCharacter: To Harry Astley. Both are people of color, but Toinette despite her situation works to improve her life following Bella's ideals of change, whereas Astley is a free wealthy man but a resigned cynic.
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* MirrorCharacter: To Harry Astley. Both are people of color, but Toinette despite her situation supports the socialist cause and works to improve her life following after being inspired by Bella's ideals of change, whereas Astley is a free wealthy man but a resigned cynic.
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* MirrorCharacter: To Harry Astley. Both are people of color, but Toinette despite her situation works to improve her life following Bella's ideals of change, whereas Astley is a free wealthy man but a resigned cynic.
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* AboveTheInfluence: Harry is only interested in Bella's shamelessness and openness in a non-sexual, non-romantic way, because he's a KnightInSourArmor who believes HumansAreTheRealMonsters and feels that she needs to see what the world is really like.
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* AboveTheInfluence: Harry is only interested in Bella's shamelessness and openness in a non-sexual, non-romantic way, because he's a KnightInSourArmor who believes HumansAreTheRealMonsters and feels that she needs to see what the world is really like. Despite his prominence on the poster alongside her love interests and father, he's the only man in her life whose interactions with her would probably be more or less the same if she were a naive young man instead.
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* AssholeVictim: Duncan is subject to a ''lot'' of humiliation over the course of the film, but given how much of a reckless, controlling sleazebag he is, it's hard not to say he doesn't deserve it.
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* AssholeVictim: Duncan is subject to a ''lot'' of humiliation over the course of the film, but given how much of a reckless, controlling sleazebag he is, it's hard not to say he doesn't deserve it.
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* HateSink: Blessington has ''no'' redeeming qualities whatsoever: he's abusive to his servants, imprisons Bella in her home, and makes it clear that he plans to subject her to genital mutilation as a further means of controlling her. And unlike Duncan, who's more of a LovableRogue, Blessington's scenes are played entirely without comedy--nothing he does is funny, just cruel. As such, no tears are shed when [[spoiler: he's Bella's first "experiment" in mind-swapping, and his fate to live with a goat's brain in his body feels justified.]]
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* AmbiguouslyBi: In the film's second act, Bella begins working at a brothel and strikes up a friendship with Toinette, another prostitute. The relationship eventually becomes both sexual and romantic, and [[spoiler: the end of the movie has Toinette living with the now-married Bella and Max as a part of their family.]] It's unclear if Bella is attracted to any other women or if her bisexuality is simply part of her exploration of the world, but she clearly loves Toinette and also enjoys being in bed with her.
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* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: He talks about the horrific abuse his father subjected him to as if they were lighthearted childhood memories as opposed to unspeakable cruelties. Max is clearly appalled by it, and the contrast between their reactions makes the joke.
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* IntergenerationalFriendship: Martha is good friends with Harry Astley and immediately takes a shine to Bella as well, and they're both decades younger than her.
* NeverMessWithGranny: As mentioned below, when Duncan tries to throw her over the side of the boat, she whacks him in the face with her cane once she's had enough of his antics.
* NeverMessWithGranny: As mentioned below, when Duncan tries to throw her over the side of the boat, she whacks him in the face with her cane once she's had enough of his antics.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: The end of the movie shows that she's [[spoiler: joined Bella and Max as part of a FamilyOfChoice, helping to raise Felicity and generally being treated as a third member of their marriage.]]
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* TwoferTokenMinority: She's a Black queer woman.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]--though she disappears once Bella returns to London, at the end of the film, [[spoiler: Toinette is shown living with the now-married Bella and Max as a valued member of their family, and it's implied that she and Bella have continued their sexual relationship as well.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]--though she disappears once Bella returns to London, at the end of the film, [[spoiler: Toinette is shown living with the now-married Bella and Max as a valued member of their family, and it's implied that she and Bella have continued their sexual relationship as well.]]
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* AmbiguousSituation: It's not clear if Felicity still has her own brain after being resurrected or, like Bella, had [[spoiler: a fetus's working brain implanted inside her.]] The fact that Felicity takes much longer to develop than Bella seems to point to the former, but it's never stated.
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* DudeMagnet: She ends up catching the attention of several men, for better or for worse, and out of all of them, only Max and Duncan are serious enough love interests for her, with the former being the person who ends up winning her heart.
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* ControlFreak: Duncan falls in love with and agrees to take Bella with him because he assumes that she will be easy to control due of her naivete and lack of knowledge of how the world works. When Bella starts to become more mature and independent, he becomes utterly frustrated because he can no longer tell her what to do, eventually leading to a SanitySlippage that gets him committed to an asylum after she breaks up with him.
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* ControlFreak: Duncan falls in love with and agrees to take Bella with him because he assumes that she will be easy to control due of to her naivete and lack of knowledge of how the world works. When Bella starts to become more mature and independent, he becomes utterly frustrated because he can no longer tell her what to do, eventually leading to a SanitySlippage that gets him committed to an asylum after she breaks up with him.
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** He admits that he has no use for polite society and finds the whole concept to be rather stupid, agreeing with Harry when he voices a similar opinion, [[{{Hypocrite}} not that it stops him from trying to get Bella to conform to said polite society]].
** He also seems to be genuinely apologetic when Max informs him that Godwin has cancer after he accuses him of being demonic and has the decency to shut up about it afterwards.
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** As brought up by Creator/MarkRuffalo in interviews, Duncan fancies himself as being a libertine who believes in free love--that is, unless a woman (in this case, Bella) engages in that free love. This is best shown in his possessive nature towards her and his complete mental breakdown when she tells him that she has become a prostitute.
** He admits that he has no use for polite society and finds the whole concept to be rather stupid, agreeing with Harry when he voices a similar opinion, [[{{Hypocrite}} not that it stops him from trying to get Bella to conform to said polite society]].
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** As brought up by Creator/MarkRuffalo in interviews, Duncan fancies himself as being a libertine who believes in free love--that is, unless a woman (in this case, Bella) engages in that free love. This is best shown in his possessive nature towards her and his complete mental breakdown when she tells him that she has become a prostitute.
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* MeaningfulName: Possibly named for ''Literature/Frankenstein'' author Mary '''Godwin''' Shelley's real-life friend Isabella Baxter.
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