Ambition
- Created by: Lottie Deutsch
- Created on: 30-12-18 00:48
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- Ambition
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- my thoughts and every feeling of my have been drunk up by the interest for my guest
- 'drunk up' - links to intoxicating draught
- enticed him not deterred - mirrors ancient mariner, even more for benefit of V
- twist on ancient mariner as excites not deters - reflects how Shelley twists romantic
- my thoughts and every feeling of my have been drunk up by the interest for my guest
- Colridge's the Ancient Mariner
- the monster is the albatross, V is the mariner and W is the wedding guest
- accentuates text as shows sense of fate, lack of blame - how V should act as a cautionary to W and the reader
- the monster is the albatross, V is the mariner and W is the wedding guest
- evaluation
- do you share my madness? have you drunk also from the intoxicating draught? Hear me, let me reveal my tale and you will dash the cup from your lips
- romanticism of the analogy of the 'intoxicating draught' reflects how disillusioned V becomes through glory
- dualism between W and V emphasises their paralleled feelings and stories - cautionary tale
- V doing it for his benefit when he confesses he will lift burden of himself - hasn't learnt from his own cautionary tale
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- ambition causes monstrosity
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- gave place to Hellish rage and gnashing of teeth
- each's ambition to kill the other has lead to their loss of humanity
- 'gnashing of teeth' mirrored - dualism - both has become so like each other you can't tell the different
- humanity = individualism shows lack of humanity
- gave place to Hellish rage and gnashing of teeth
- Shelley feared scientific development believing it caused lack of humanity - seen here
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- when I thought of him I gnashed my teeth my eyes became inflamed
- resorts to same state as monster 'gnashing his teeth'
- in creating the monster he gives up his humanity giving all power to the monster
- proof - he is ill after as has lost a part of himself
- gothic description emphasises how far from his human self V is
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- pursuit of glory
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- the inestimable benefit I shall confer on all mankind
- narcissism like V's - pursuit is glory - views himself as a martyr to men
- martyr idea reflects context
- rising god like status - rejects him
- martyr idea reflects context
- narcissism like V's - pursuit is glory - views himself as a martyr to men
- the inestimable benefit I shall confer on all mankind
- suphrosyne - everything in moderation, V's excessive need for power leads to his downfall
- enhances his hubris as can be compared to other tragic hero's
- adds to novel as shows power of Gods and timelessness of Shelley's writing
- enhances his hubris as can be compared to other tragic hero's
- evaluation
- greece had not been enslaved... empires of Mexico and Peru had been destroyed
- heights that V wishes to attain. Shows he lives a simple life of family in pursuit of new great terrotories
- inflated ego - he uses large example
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- cautionary tale
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