TBC Frankenstein supernatural
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- Created on: 03-11-20 01:49
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- The Supernatural
- Frankenstein
- Superhuman qualities
- ' I grasped at his throat to silence him'- - super human strength when strangled William
- - ' advancing towards me with superhuman speed'
- Also not as prone to harsh weather conditions= his physical power exceeds human beings
- Monster physical description
- Takes body parts from graveyards = supernatural
- - 'straight black lips' contrasted with the 'pearly whiteness' of creatures teeth > links to the appearance of monstrosity
- Monster = supernatural
- - 'more hideous than belongs to humanity'- 'unearthly in his ugliness'
- Victor's abuse of electricity (natural force) to create something supernatural. he leaves behind the ordinary course of nature to create something abnormal and supernatural
- 'infuse a spark of being'
- Nature and sublime help monster to punish victor, supernatural connotations
- Blown by 'high winds'' a heavy storm of rain' on his wedding nightdies in the arctic from cold
- Superhuman qualities
- The Bloody Chamber
- Indirect supernatural references
- 'He was a big man, he moved as softly as if all his shoes had soles of velvet, as if his footfall turned the carpet into snow'
- 'His strange, heavy, almost waxen face'
- 'absolute absence of light'
- 'heavy fleshy composure'
- 'His face was as still as ever I'd seen it, still as a pond iced thickly over'
- 'The voice that seemed to issue from a cave full of echoes'
- 'His dark soft rumbling growl'
- Direct supernatural references
- 'a sharp premonition of dread'
- 'white, broad face as if it were hovering, disembodied'
- 'My little love, you'll never know how much I hate daylight!'
- 'Pervasive atmosphere of a suspension of reality'
- 'A constant human presence would remind him too bitterly of his otherness'
- 'All the natural laws of the world were held in suspension'
- 'He could not bring herself to touch him... he was so different from herself'
- Indirect supernatural references
- Frankenstein
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