Frankenstein - AO3 Critics
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- Frankenstein - Critics (AO3)
- William Godwin
- Mary Shelley's father
- Shelley was influenced by his philosophy about society
- "the government is a monsterous edifice" - quote from his book "Political Injustice"
- Justine exemplifies society's brutality - "Dies at the hands of society's corruption
- Freud's theory of "Narcissism"
- Greek mythology of someone who fell in love with his own image
- Roussean theory - Jean Jaque Rousso
- "everything is good as it leaves the hand of the author; everything degenerates in the hands of man"
- Victor rejects the monster, horror from villagers, fear from people, rejection from DeLacey's = MURDERER
- Experience = Humans are unkind and lack compassion
- Victor rejects the monster, horror from villagers, fear from people, rejection from DeLacey's = MURDERER
- "everything is good as it leaves the hand of the author; everything degenerates in the hands of man"
- Freudian theory
- Phenomenon of repression to explain what happens to ideas that are repressed
- "I found myself in a constant love for my mother, and a jealousy of my father. I now consider this to be an universal event in childhood" - Freud
- Lockean theory - Tabula Rasa
- Theory that individuals are born without a built in mental content and their knowledge comes from experience and perception
- The nurture side of the nature versus nurture debate shapes us most when it comes to aspects of one's personality, social and emotional behaviour and intelligence
- William Godwin
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