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The monster's two sides. Nature or nuture.
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The monster's two sides. Nature or nuture.“I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.
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Frankenstein -Victor and Walton mirror buddies-ambition WALTON p5 Writing from Russia to sister Mrs Saville 1817
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Motive for travel to North pole.'I may there discover the wondrous power which attracts the needle...' 'to satisfy my ardent curiosity'...'I shall confer unestimable benefit...on all humanity to the last generation...' p3 ( Inspired by reading his Uncle Thomas's volume of sea faring journeys even though he'd been forbidden by dying father for uncle to let him embark on a sea faring life.) (a failed poet -tied to gain fame like Shakespeare but failed.) p4
'but I preferred glory to every enticement wealth placed in my path' Walt.p5 |
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WALTON - MIRROR OF VICTOR - LONELY. P6 SELF EDUCATED BUT LACKING IN SCHOOLING. CONSIDERS HIMSELF ROMANTIC. WANTS SOMEONE OF A CULTIVATED AND CAPATIOUS MIND WITH TASTES LIKE HIS OWN. IS 28 YET FEELS MORE ILLITERATE THAN 15YR OLDS. TRIED STUDYING LANGUAGES, POETRY AND SHIPPING. MARCH 28TH LETTER HOME
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TECHNIQUES - IRONY 'i SHALL CERTAINLY FIND NO FRIEND ON THE WIDE OCEAN'.P6 'i AM GOING TO UNEXPLORED REGIONS''TO THE LAND OF MIST AND SNOW'.PG9
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JULY 7TH 17...WALTON'S BLIND AMBITION 4 SUCCESS P10
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''WHY NOT STILL PROCEED OVER THE UNTAMED YET OBEDIENT ELEMENT' 'WHAT CAN STOP THE DETERMINED HEART AND RESOLVED WILL OF MAN?'PG10 WALTON
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AUGUST 5TH, 17... LETTER 4. ENCOUNTER WITH THE MONSTER FIRST P10 (JULY 31ST - 2PM) FRANKENSTEIN - NEXT AM VICTOR SEEN.
VICTOR'S CURSE FOR OVERSTEPPING MORAL BOUNDS IN CREATING THE MONSTER. |
'HIS BODY DREADFULLY EMACIATED BY FATIGUE AND SUFFERING' - '' i NEVER SAW A MAN IN SO WRETCHED A CONDITION'. 'MELANCHOLY''DESPAIRING''GNASHES HIS TEETH'- ALUSION TO BIBLE PROPHECY. P12
P14 'CONSTANT AND DEEP GRIEF' 'HIS MIND IS SO CULTIVATED'.P14 was in a 'dark tyranny of despair'. |
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VICTOR'S THOUGHTS OF THE MONSTER RELAYED TO WALTON AFTER ALL HE'D BEEN THROUGH.
WALTON RELAYS HIS AMBITIONS TO VICTOR P14 VICTOR IS HORRIFIED AS RECOGNISES THE SAME AMBITION- TO PLAY GOD IN THE NAME OF 'ADVANCEMENT' IN WALTON WHICH LED TO VICTOR'S RUIN. |
P13 'THE DEMON'.
WALTON 'ONE MAN'S LIFE OR DEATH WERE BUT A SMALL PRICE TO PAY FOR THE ACQUIREMENT OF THE KNOWLEDGE WHICH I SOULGHT; FOR THE DOMINION I SHOULD ACQUIRE AND TRANSMIT OVER THE ELEMENTAL FOES OF OUR RACE.P14 VICTOR ALLUDES TO WALTON AS BEING A JUDAS/or Adam or Lucifer tempted - DRINKING THE CUP OF SUFFERING AND WRATH. 'HAVE you drank also of the intoxicating draught?...hear my tale and you will dash the cup from your lips!".'You have hope and the world before you, and have no cause for despair. But I - I have lost everything and cannot begin life anew.' |
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ROMANTICISM EXALTS NATURE - ITS POWER TO LIFT UP THE HUMAN SOUL FROM BONDAGE. WALTON REFLECTS ON FRANK.
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P15 'No one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature ...which...seems to still have the power of elevating his soul from earth.
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August 19th, 17... VICTOR warns Walton about his ambition. Allusion to 'eating the apple' and curse entering into mankind. Allusion of his ambition and act of 'creation' as the tempting/ deceiving of the serpent Satan in the bible -
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'You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to you, as mine as been.'
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Shelley speaks of a human's life as a course which can affect humanity individually or corporately either positively or negatively . p17
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'frightful the storm which embraced the gallant vessel on its course and wrecked it - thus! p17 Walton about Victor.
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Chapter One Victor speaks his tale to Walton p18.
His mother daughter of his father's friend who died in financial ruin. His mother adopted Elizabeth Lavern from poverty. Difference in character between Liz and Victor. p23 Difference in nature/ character between Clerval and himself. |
''I desired to divine...the hidden laws of nature'. p23 Shelley portrays this desire as almost something sacrosanct or incestuous. Something monstrous.
'It was the secrets of the 'metaphysical' that I desired to learn - of the heavens and the earth''While Clerval occupied himself with the moral relations of things.' 'The birth of that passion...afterwards would rule my destiny."p25 'which has swept away all my joy and hope'. |
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The origins of his passion/obsession were at 13 yrs reading a volume of worls of Cornelius Agrippa - natural philosophy. His father discouraged him.
' My dear Victor don't waste time upon this - it is sad trash." Victor wished his dad would've explained that modern society had improved on the chimerical science of Cornelius Agrippa and had real and practical power then Victor would've left Agrippa alone. This section could be an allegory for 19th century scientific discoveries superceeding superstition of previous centuries. Drugs overtaking herbs. Chemical synthetic substancesovertaking natural substances . ' Out with the old and in with the new' .Shelley's writing style - techniques here = self reflection of superstitious signs and omens. Portentious reflections. |
14yrs old he read and studied Paracelsus and Albertus Magnus. ' I was to a degree self taught with regard to my favourite studies. 'Wealth was an inferior object; but what glory would attend the discovery, if I could banish disease from the human frame, and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death! ' Victor was also interested in ' the raising of ghosts or devils'...' The fulfillment of which I most eagerly sought'. At 15 yrs old near Belrive Victor saw a most violent thunderstorm. He saw lightening strike and totally destroy an old and beautiful oak tree. p27 (The law of electricity) Met a great man of science who taught him about Galvanism.
' I at once gave up my former occupations; set down natural history and all its natural progeny as a deformed and abortive creature and entertained the greatest disdain for a ' would-be science', which could never even step within the threshold of real knowledge'. ' When I look back...Destiny too potent...her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction.' p29 |
