Parallels in Frankenstein
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- Created on: 29-03-13 15:39
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- Parallels
- Frankenstein & the creature
- They think they've suffered the most.
- (F) "More miserable than man ever was before" p. 135
- (C) "could not sum up the hours and months of misery which I have endured" p.169
- (C) "no misery, can be found comparable to mine" p.168
- "gnashed his teeth" p. 128 & "he gnashes his teeth" p. 21
- Two passages almost identical but one about C and one about F
- (F) "I stretched out my hand to him" p. 138
- "One hand was stretched out" p. 46 (about C)
- Suggests they have swapped roles.
- Both referred to as a "wretch"
- "Wretch!" p. 169 Walton about C.
- "wretch" p. 161 F talking about himself
- (C) "I am rather the fallen angel" p. 77
- (F) "archangel" p. 161
- Both alone
- (C) "I am alone" p. 169
- (F) "I shunned the face of man" p. 70
- Chooses to be alone to begin with.
- F described by Walton as having a "decaying frame" p. 22
- C created from "decaying" parts of the "human frame" p.43
- C is vegetarian and F is meat-eater
- F "subsisted on the wild animals" p.155
- C ate "berries" and "nuts and roots" p.81
- They think they've suffered the most.
- Justine and the creature
- Both hated by parents.
- J's mother "treated her very ill" p.51
- F "detest(s) and spurn(s)" C p.77
- Both called a "monster". J - p. 68. C - p. 46.
- Both judged quickly.
- F describes C as a "demoniacal corpse" p. 46
- "children shrieked" "one of the women fainted" p. 82 upon seeing him. Judged on appearance
- "the crime of which they supposed her guilty" p.65
- F describes C as a "demoniacal corpse" p. 46
- Both think they will be okay.
- J "appeared confident in innocence" p. 64.
- C thought he could "gain the good will and mediation of the old De Lacy."
- Both hated by parents.
- Frankenstein & Walton
- (W) "I preferred glory" p. 14
- (F) "I believed myself destined for some great enterprise" p.161
- (F) "I could not rank myself with the herd of common projectors" p. 161
- (W) "I often worked harder than the common sailors" p. 14
- Both don't complete their "purpose" p.165.
- (W) "what can stop the determined heart and the resolved will of man?" P. 19.
- (F) "this ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be" p. 164.
- Both think nothing can defeat men.
- Frankenstein and Justine
- Justine "appeared confident in her innocence" p. 64
- Victor's "limbs trembled" and he had to "lean on a chair for support" p. 134
- Frankenstein didn't save Justine because he thought his "tale was not one to announce publicly" p.63
- Frankenstein'sfather came to save him "my good angel" p. 138/9
- Justine is innocent but proven guilty, Frankenstein is guilty but proven innocent.
- Semantic fields of pain surrounding Frankenstein in both trials.
- "I suffered living torture" p. 63
- "continually renewed the torture" p. 135
- Frankenstein & the creature
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