Frankenstein

Passionate - "engaged, heart and sound, in the pursuit of some discoveries"

Ambitious - "I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers" + "ardently desired the aquisition of knowledge"(since childhood)

Self centred - "no creature had ever been so miserable as I was"

Presents himself as victim - "unparalleled misfortune" - also self centred

Blames fate - says destiny has decided his "utter and terrible destruction"

Becomes unwell - "a shattered wreck" + "shadow of human being"

Surrounded by people who love him:

Lonely - "I alone am irrevocably excluded"

Bitter - "all men hate the wretched"

Vengeful - "I will work at your destruction"

Changed by treatment - "wrenched by misery to vice + hatred" + "I was benevolent + good; misery made me a feind"

Decided if can't be happy will inflict pain - "evil thenceforth became my good"

Naturally inclined to be good:

• collects wood for the De Laceys + clearing snow from the path "when they rejoiced, I sympathised in their joys"
• saves girl from death
• shown in mosters narrative

Intelligent - both seek knowledge - the monster feels "wonder and delight" when learns to read

Obsessive - their determination for revenge spurs them on, and drives them to their deaths

Isolated - isolation forced upon monster but Frankenstein's loneliness initially a choice

Obsessed by their own sufferings and blames that on each other

Relationship reverses as Monster becomes Frankenstein's "master" later on in play which is demonstrated by how he leads Frankenstein north

Idealistic - imagines north pole as "a land surpassing in wonders"

Compassionate - feels "sympathy and compassion" for Frankenstein

Lonely - "bitterly" affected by lack of friends

Confident - "success shall crown my endeavours"

Ambitious - "I shall satiate my ardent curiosity"

Sensitive - "his...deep grief fills me with sympathy and compassion"

A lot like Frankenstein - ambitious but fate isn't sealed and can learn lessons from Frankenstein

Cheerful - "I enjoy existence"

Generous - "so thoughtful in his generosity"

Romantic - "the scenery of external nature...he loved with ardour"

Clerval foil to Frankenstein:

Loving - "she was the living spirit of love"

Beautiful - "fairer than pictured cherub"

Selfless - "she forgot even her own regret"

Idealistic woman - contented, home-loving and loved by others with a "passionate and almost reverential attachment"

Too perfect - says she "cannot live in this world of misery"

Knowledge + ambition:

• Walton + Frankenstein want knowledge + fame
• as Monster becomes more knowledgeable he realises he won't be accepted

Creation:

• natural world presented as beautiful - "beauty of nature"
• monster created from "unhallowed dumps of the grave" so unatural + created from death

Family:

• love - gives Frankenstein "inexhaustible stores of affection"
• support - Alphonso ensures Clerval joins Frankenstein in Britain + then travels to Ireland to suppport him
• education - taught "patience" + "self control" by family but loses this after leaving
• parents presented as perfect - "no human could have had a happier childhood than myself. My parents were possessed by the very spirit of kindness + indulgence" - this is contrasted by the treatment of his own creation (the monster)

Prejucice:

Revenge: