Main Characters in Frankenstein
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- Main Characters in Frankenstein
- Justine
- Beth Newman - 'variable voice' makes her unreliable
- Introduced briefly in Elizabeth's letter then 'condemned to death'
- Alphonse says they must 'rely on the justice of our laws'
- YET - 'justine was conndemned'
- Irony of name 'Justine' connected to justice
- Whenever courts are involved, it is unjust
- Victor 'doomed to live' in what he calls a 'dungeon'
- DeLacey family 'thrown into prison' on account of brother's crimes
- Whenever courts are involved, it is unjust
- Anne K Mellor 'passive female' 'social construct of gender' that places the 'male above the female'
- Elizabeth
- 'pretty little present' - objectification of women
- 'celestial stamp on all her features'
- Anne K Mellor - V has aggressive desire to 'dominate the female sex object'
- 'cherub'
- 'my more than sister'
- Peter Brooks - 'quazi incestuous nature of his union with elizabeth'
- In dream, Elizabeth becomes 'corpse' of V's 'dead mother'
- Calls wedding 'union'
- Indicating he sees it as a marriage of convenience - 'miserable marriage'
- Peter Brooks - 'quazi incestuous nature of his union with elizabeth'
- 'elizabeth seemed happy'
- Does Victor even know her?
- Elizabeth
- Elizabeth
- 'pretty little present' - objectification of women
- 'celestial stamp on all her features'
- Anne K Mellor - V has aggressive desire to 'dominate the female sex object'
- 'cherub'
- 'my more than sister'
- Peter Brooks - 'quazi incestuous nature of his union with elizabeth'
- In dream, Elizabeth becomes 'corpse' of V's 'dead mother'
- Calls wedding 'union'
- Indicating he sees it as a marriage of convenience - 'miserable marriage'
- Peter Brooks - 'quazi incestuous nature of his union with elizabeth'
- 'elizabeth seemed happy'
- Does Victor even know her?
- Victor
- Ambition
- V 'almost frantic impulse'
- 'breathless eagerness'
- 'unhallowed arts'
- 'secret toil'
- (taboo, perversive nature of his studies - playing God)
- Narcissism
- Joseph Kestner - V seeks himself as 'love object'
- Freud notes Narcissistic people invest 'large amounts of libido of an essentially homosexual kind' to form a narcissistic ego ideal.
- Kestner - 'homosexuality latent in his narcissism'
- Peter Brooks - 'performs ultimate gesture of castration on monster'
- homosexual? Joseph Kestner - FS grins through monster when E is killed- preents separation of ego libido and object libido.
- Spiritual, though not 'impressed by any supernatural horrors'
- Yet, becomes interested in 'Cornelius Agrippa'
- 'philosophers stone'
- 'elixir of life'
- YET, uses words like 'fate' 'fatal' 'omen' 'destiny'
- Monster's creation manifestation of desire to create life? Alphonse - 'sad trash'
- Yet, becomes interested in 'Cornelius Agrippa'
- emotional, describes emotions in great detail
- 'more miserable than man ever was before'
- Neglects friends
- 'forgot those friends'
- They become 'uneasy' at his 'long silence' when in Ingoldstadt
- Madness
- 'enthusiastic madness'
- 'delirium'
- 'gnashed my teeth'
- 'unremitting ardour'
- 'I am the blasted stump'
- 'loud, unrestrained' laughter frightens Clerval
- Ambition
- Monster
- 'I am an abortion'
- Mary Shelley had miscarriages and struggled to conceive
- calls novel 'my hideous progeny'
- Mary Shelley had miscarriages and struggled to conceive
- Biblical references
- Comparisonsto creation of Adam
- 'lifeless clay' - parallels to many creation stories
- Paradise Lost
- 'guarded by the especial care of his creator'
- M 'I was wretched, helpless and alone'
- 'I ought to by thy Adam' rather 'fallen Angel'
- V called 'archangel' - similar?
- 'unhallowed arts' -unholy creation
- Biblical references
- Comparisonsto creation of Adam
- 'lifeless clay' - parallels to many creation stories
- Paradise Lost
- 'guarded by the especial care of his creator'
- M 'I was wretched, helpless and alone'
- 'I ought to by thy Adam' rather 'fallen Angel'
- V called 'archangel' - similar?
- Biblical references
- made from 'decaying parts' of 'human frame'
- epistolary structure, Beth Newman notes mimics monster, stitched together from different people but speaks with one voice
- but 'fails to provide significant differences' in tone, diction and sentence structure'
- epistolary structure, Beth Newman notes mimics monster, stitched together from different people but speaks with one voice
- creation of monster linked to Luigi Galvani experiments in Galvanism -
- 'convulsive motion'
- Galvani used electricity to make frogs leg twitch, giving rise to Galvanism
- Mary Shelley friends with a bunch of cutting edge scientists
- Galvani used electricity to make frogs leg twitch, giving rise to Galvanism
- 'convulsive motion'
- Judged quickly
- 'children shrieked' one woman 'fainted'
- 'monstrous machinations
- 'hideous'
- 'filthy mass that moved and talked'
- 'wretch'
- V is called wretch
- 'I am alone'
- Eroticism and sexual desires
- 'that being you must create'
- theme of power - addressed V as 'slave'
- 'portrait of a most lovely woman' - fixates on beauty
- Peter Brooks 'becomes ****** object'
- Inspires want for companion?
- Peter Brooks 'becomes ****** object'
- 'Awake, thy lover is near'
- Beth Newman 'a perverse fantasy of ****'
- 'I am forever robbed of all that she could give me'
- desire for 'mate' 'companion'
- 'no eve soothed my sorrows'
- 'consumed by a burning passion which you alone can gratify'
- 'you must create a female for me'
- 'we shall make our bed of dried leaves'. sun 'will ripen our food'
- edenical image
- edenical image
- watches window of laboratory with 'ghastly grin' - Peter Brooks calls it a 'phallic gaze' making him realise the 'bodily potential of a sexed pair'
- 'that being you must create'
- 'I am an abortion'
- Clerval
- 'how kind and very good you are to me'
- 'my dear Henry'
- 'the voice of Henry soothed me'
- Untitled
- 'lifeless form of Henry Clerval stretched out before me'
- homosexual?Appears more traumatised ('why did I not then die?' ) by Henry's death than Elizabeths
- Kestner - 'homosexuality latent in his narcissism'
- 'clerval had always been my favourite companion'
- Justine
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