Context Flashcards
Chimera
A mythical creature composed of the parts of different beats.
Appropriate symbol for what victor has done in chapter 4
Lost paradise
The story about the fall
God= victor
Satan and Adam= monster
The Prometheus
Greek god stealing fire for the immortals, condemned by Zeus who sent a n eagle to peck at his liver.
Playing god
Doppelgänger
Frankenstein and his monster
Serena joy and offred
The romantic lonely wanderer
Idealised romantic hero who ‘assumes a stance of observation, freely passing judgment on what is before them
Victor had distanced himself from his family, characterised as a lonely wandered, but is disputed bc he writes to his family
Galvanism
Reanimation through electric currents
The enlightenment
New ideas and scientific discovery, questioned gods omnipotence.
John Locke ‘blank slate’ at birth, opposed long standing ideas that innate qualities e.g sin or goodness does not exist
Intertextuality
A reference to allusion or literary work
Epistolary novel
Novel told through a character’s letters
Chinese box structure
A story within a story, likely to b mirrors eachother
A story within a story, likely to b mirrors each other
Incubus
Male demon
