Frankenstein Notes
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Dirty Themes, Motifs and Points that you should reference/ make whole paragraphs on
Romanticism – importance of setting/ weather
Dangerous Knowledge
The Sublime
Monstrosity
Secrecy
Kant
Rousseau – tabula rasa
Marxist view
Feminist view – Passive Women
Volney’s Ruins of Empires
Paradise Lost
Loneliness
Beauty
Creation/Death
Responsibility
Passion
Quotes You Can Use (Even In Casual Conversation)
The beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.
Superficial vs. Fundamental, monster’s eyes and its soul
I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures, such as no language can describe.
Self-loathing, inability to handle responsibility
Here then I retreated, and lay down happy to have found a shelter, however miserable, from the inclemency of the season, and still more from the barbarity of man.
The Monster gives an outsider’s view on the human race.
William, Justine, and Henry-they all died by my hands.
Frankenstein’s realisation of his flight from responsibility.
You are my creator, but I am your master; obey!
Role reversal
What may not be expected in a country of eternal light?
Fear of the unknown
I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.
Fear of the unknown
I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on.
The Monster is unfairly brought into this world and is maltreated.
How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world.
Frankenstein warns the reader of the pursuit of knowledge
To mould me Man, did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?
Paradise Lost reference, the Monster feels he is in a similarly helpless position as Adam was
Now misery has come home, and men appear to me as
Dirty Themes, Motifs and Points that you should reference/ make whole paragraphs on
Romanticism – importance of setting/ weather
Dangerous Knowledge
The Sublime
Monstrosity
Secrecy
Kant
Rousseau – tabula rasa
Marxist view
Feminist view – Passive Women
Volney’s Ruins of Empires
Paradise Lost
Loneliness
Beauty
Creation/Death
Responsibility
Passion
Quotes You Can Use (Even In Casual Conversation)
The beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.
Superficial vs. Fundamental, monster’s eyes and its soul
I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures, such as no language can describe.
Self-loathing, inability to handle responsibility
Here then I retreated, and lay down happy to have found a shelter, however miserable, from the inclemency of the season, and still more from the barbarity of man.
The Monster gives an outsider’s view on the human race.
William, Justine, and Henry-they all died by my hands.
Frankenstein’s realisation of his flight from responsibility.
You are my creator, but I am your master; obey!
Role reversal
What may not be expected in a country of eternal light?
Fear of the unknown
I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.
Fear of the unknown
I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on.
The Monster is unfairly brought into this world and is maltreated.
How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world.
Frankenstein warns the reader of the pursuit of knowledge
To mould me Man, did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?
Paradise Lost reference, the Monster feels he is in a similarly helpless position as Adam was
Now misery has come home, and men appear to me as