Frankenstein

Created by: Rachael
Created on: 10-05-13 14:56

'[B] I shall kill no albatross...as the Ancient Mariner'

Intertextuality regarding Ancient Mariner- the way the Ancient Mariner overreached and transgressed with regards killing the Albatross; damning both himself and his fellow shipmen

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'Intoxicating draught'

Victor warns Walton in a similar way that the Mariner warns the wedding guest (Intertextuality) but intoxication itself suggests a state of subconscious desire.. Victor hopes Walton will learn a moral from his tale, which sets up the inner narrative

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'Their child...helpless creature bestowed on them by Heaven'

Reference to 'creature' ultimately links Victor to the creature itself and suggests the concept of the Doppleganger, showing their similarities but also their differences as Victor was naturally conceived

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'She busied herself...with the sublime shapes of the mountains'

Contradictory to Victor who is more scientifically minded, this description of Elizabeth links the female with nature and how nature is a large part of the novel as Victor goes against natural methods of conception

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'Pictured cherub,' 'saintly should of Elizabeth'

Religious imagery surrounds the characterisation of Elizabeth, linking to her purity (virgin Mary) and showing her as being a moral and angelic.. A perfect patriarchal picture of a female

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'I beheld a stream of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak ...and so soon as the dazzling light vanished the oak had disappeared, and nothing remained but a blasted stump'

This introduction to the powers of nature in the form of electricity (lightning storm) foreshadows Victors attempt at controlling the power of nature. Instead of fearing nature like in the concept of the Sublime, Victor attempts to control it

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'Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through'

The Gothic theme of boundaries; Victor is transgressing across the boundaries as he attempts to use death as a source of producing life (therefore merging binary opposites)

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'[T]he moon gazed on my midnight labours'

Mother Nature is looking down on his unnatural deeds.. This quote enforces and magnifies the events taking place

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'filthy creation'

Dirty, unnatural, bloody, artificial; Victor is disgusted by himself

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'I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health...I embraced her; but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, …I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms'

Freudian psychoanalysis; the belief that men are brought up with unconscious desires for their mother.

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Religious imagery surrounds the characterisation of Elizabeth, linking to her purity (virgin Mary) and showing her as being a moral and angelic.. A perfect patriarchal picture of a female

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