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Frankenstein Extensive Notes. Frankenstein Romantic novel by Mary Shelley
Themes • Anxiety about science o Natural philosophy (hybrid ...
... lifelong habit of deep and extensive reading and ... the monster's discovery of Victor
Frankenstein's journal, and ... The monster notes that "everything is related in ...
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Romantic novel by Mary Shelley
Themes
• Anxiety about science
o Natural philosophy (hybrid) [bunk!]
• Philosophical
• Religious
• Scientific
Fascination with electricity and magnetism
• Thought that electricity was the key to life
Intense interest in the origins of life
• Beginning to find fossils and pre-Darwin evolution
• Life and Death (see below)
Romantic Triad
Divine / nature / humanity
Frankenstein is the opposite (upside down triangle).
Prometheus Unbound (Romantic Hero)
Advocate of humanity
Good intentions = happy ending
Suffers, gains wisdom
Wisdom leads to final decision
Isolation leads to redemption of society
Filled with the virtues of sacrifice, love, protection, savior
Hero (particularly to the romantics)
Frankenstein--or The Modern Prometheus
Destroys humanity
Good intentions = dark endings (the road to hell is paved with good intentions)
Suffers, gains wisdom
Wisdom leads to suffering
Isolation leads to madness
Abandons his creation, revolution, unnatural, \"bad parent\"
Anti-hero (rather than \"villain\")
Frankenstein\'s goal is to create life (thus eliminating death) yet most of the images are of death. The slaughter houses, the \"revolution\" of is \"human nature.\" The human contact brings him back from the brink of madness (his friend, spring, letter).
LIFE DEATH (Life in death)
Beauty- black hair, white teeth
Horrific-black lips, yellow papery skin, watery yellowed eyes
Health-wants to eliminate death
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