frankenstein overview
- Created by: maggiejune
- Created on: 20-01-18 20:59
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- Frankenstein
- Characters
- VICTOR: obsessed with creation and begins his own downwards spiral
- CREATURE: forced into being then shunned by all society
- ELIZABETH: Victor's sister and lover, represented as a helpless woman
- HENRY CLERVAL: friend of Victor, what he could have been
- Themes
- NATURE: Victor finds peace in nature, ironic as he goes against it
- SCIENCE: the quest for knowledge has it's limits
- SOCIETY: shuns the creature and causes him to turn to evil
- Symbols
- THE BIBLE: used to compare the creature to Adam, then as the devil
- THE SUBLIME: beauty and fear combined
- Quotes
- 'I, the miserable and abandoned, am an abortion to be kicked' - Creature
- 'I became capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter' - Victor
- Interpretations
- Psycho dynamic: Victor has many repressed emotions that come through creature
- Doppel ganger: the Creature and Victor are the same
- Context
- Romanticism vs Enlighten
- Rapid progress of science = a insight into the dangers
- Romanticism vs Enlighten
- Structure
- Epistolary form
- Characters
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