Frankenstein context
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- Created on: 05-03-20 20:43
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- Frankenstein Contexts
- Mary Shelley
- Published first edition in 1818 but WE STUDY 1831 VERSION!!
- Clearly influenced by Horace Walpole
- Plagued by her inability to have children
- 3 Miscarriages, 1 child survives full pregancy
- Mary Wollstonecraft=Mother
- Died 11 days after giving birth to Shelley
- Vindication of the Rights of Women
- Romantic Period
- Published first edition in 1818 but WE STUDY 1831 VERSION!!
- Scientific Ideas
- Galvanism
- Andrew Ure 1818
- 1818- conducted a Galvanistic experiment on the dead body of Matthew Clydesdale (a convicted murderer)
- Pulsed electricity through the body to test if life can be restored into a dead body
- Wanted to re-animate the corpse of Clydesdale
- Isaac Newton speculated this in early 1700's. Stephen Gray demonstrated the principle of electrical conductivity in 1730
- Giovanni Aldini 1803
- 17th January 1803- George Forster hanged for murder and body taken to the Royal College of Surgeons
- More shocking than simple dissection as Forster was to be electrified
- Experimented with the idea that there was a relationship with electricity and the process of life
- Giovanni Aldini 1803
- Giovanni Aldini 1803
- 17th January 1803- George Forster hanged for murder and body taken to the Royal College of Surgeons
- More shocking than simple dissection as Forster was to be electrified
- Experimented with the idea that there was a relationship with electricity and the process of life
- Andrew Ure 1818
- 1751 Murder Act
- Allowed for the bodies of executed murderers to be used for experiments
- Galvanism
- Marriage
- When married, traditional Christian customs of being handed from father to husband were in place
- Consummation of marriage- first sexual intercourse with new spouse
- Women
- Feminism
- 1st Wave
- Seen as the submissive sex- trying to change this
- Rise in female authorship BUT under male pseudonyms
- Patriarchal constraints in society
- Marriage
- When married, traditional Christian customs of being handed from father to husband were in place
- Consummation of marriage- first sexual intercourse with new spouse
- Only people who can get pregnant- natural role
- Romanticised in literature
- Treated as an 'outsider' or an 'other'
- Feminism
- Character types
- Femme Fatale
- - Parody of Morticia Addams - Sexual threat - Dangerous and rapacious creatures - Punished for their transgression
- Persecuted Maiden
- - Victim- blonde, passive, frail, silent, innocent, helpless -Hyperbolic reactions
- Mother figure
- Untitled
- Femme Fatale
- Mary Shelley
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