Frankenstein - Power
- Created by: Ellie
- Created on: 01-05-13 15:39
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- Power
- VF's power to captivate Walton and his audience
- VF's power to usurp God and women by creating the monster
- "I alone should be reserved to discover so astonishing a secret"
- "I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter" This could lead him to believe he has a power greater than God.
- Theme of purgatory forms links with RAM
- "I alone should be reserved to discover so astonishing a secret"
- Theme of purgatory forms links with RAM
- The monster's power over VF: sets himself up as more powerful
- The monster is the primary object in VF's life
- Elizabeth's power over VF: she asserts herself over their wedding, Justine's trial etc
- "Answer me I conjure you, by our mutual happiness, with simple truth" Direct manner shows she does not feel under his authority or power
- Descriptive lang of her as an angel may convey that she has a divine power
- "I shall need no other happiness" demonstrates her independence, she does not need him to protect her
- Divine aspirations of VF to create life and bring back the dead
- Paradise lost references
- VF can be considered to be God or Satan
- Paradise lost references
- Power of the narrator
- Walton has the power to continue the story
- Science's power over VF: he devotes himself to it
- Science has power over religion
- The power of knowledge: that creates the monster
- The power of William's death over everybody
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