Critics Flashcards
The sublime is something that is incomprehensible
David punter
The sublime is when you are reduced to insignificance compared to the works of nature
Burke
World and nature are far more powerful than you
Punter
As we pass from teller to teller, peeling back one story as though peeling an onion, we progress towards some goal that seems the more powerful and important for being so palpably within
Newman
It presents confessional first person narrators whose stories sound the note of self justification so that they immediately invite suspicion
Newman
Walton possess what the monster lack and Frankenstein denies, an internalised female complimentary principle, female ego-ideal
UC Knoepflmacher
Frankenstein is about what happens when a man tries to have a baby without a woman
Mellor
Id on the rampage
Butler
Out disgust stems from the fact that is posed a threat to our identity and sense of self
Kristeva
As a verbal creation, the monster is the very opposite of monstrous
Brooks