The Outsider in Frankenstein
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- The Outsider in Frankenstein
- Creature is forced into isolation due to prejudice.
- Creature is described as "hideous", "abhorred", "wretch", "daemon". Shelley's lexical choices depict him as a social outcast.
- Jansson suggests that the Creature's isolation is marked by his namelessness.
- Creature is described as "hideous", "abhorred", "wretch", "daemon". Shelley's lexical choices depict him as a social outcast.
- The Creature is an outsider (could also represent Otherness theory) to symbolise societal rejection.
- Isolation, self-imposed or circumstantial is profoundly damaging.
- Victor's isolation is self-imposed. Perhaps he could also be considered an outsider.
- Victor isolates himself. When in Ingolstadt, he is "cramped" and "frenzied"
- However, when Victor is in the Alps, isolated from humanity, he describes scenery as "heavenly" and "glorious".
- Isolation, self-imposed or circumstantial is profoundly damaging.
- Perhaps Victor isolates himself so that he removes feelings of guilt. He is unable to see that his pursuit is so inhumane.
- Victor's blood "freezes" in his veins. Lack of remorse due to being an outsider.
- The Gothic outsider is a counterforce driven by strange longings and destructive needs.
- The Outsider reinforces the Romantic ideal that human connection is integral.
- Narrative distancing: Due to multi-layer narrative/embedded narrative structure, we are distanced from the Creature's narrative as following his are narratives from Victor and Walton.
- Creature's narrative is at the heart of the novel. Perhaps this suggests that when we remove our layers, we are all like the Creature with physiological drives.
- Possibly link to Humanism. Creature is unable to self-actualise (according to Maslow's hierarchy), this could lead to anger and revolt.
- Creature's isolation leads him to be representative of the Prolateriat. (Marxist perspective).
- Possibly link to Humanism. Creature is unable to self-actualise (according to Maslow's hierarchy), this could lead to anger and revolt.
- Creature's narrative is at the heart of the novel. Perhaps this suggests that when we remove our layers, we are all like the Creature with physiological drives.
- Shelley herself may have been an outsider, due to facing ostracism as a female writer.
- Creature is forced into isolation due to prejudice.
- Pink = points, Yellow = quotes, Red = critics, Green = structure, Turquoise = genre/context.
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