Frankenstein Flashcards
Frankenstein
Liminal
Death was no evil to me
Ignores the warnings
Dark, obsessional pushes people away.
Lose the people they love.
Elizabeth: Dear Victor, banish these dark passions
Walton’s sister’s concern: evil forebodings
Sympathy, humanity, in the creature
The girl. Endeavoured, by every means in my power, to restore animation. Man. Aimed a gun. Fired.This was my reward for my benevolence! I writhed under the miserable pain of a wound, which shattered flesh and bone.
I was benevolent and good, misery made me a fiend
I, too, can create desolation
Converts to a verb: I will work at your destruction, and not finish until I desolate your heart, so that you shall curse the hour of your birth
I am malicious because I am miserable
I now see compassion in your eyes
Promise me what I so ardently desire
Inflamed by pain
I ought to be thy Adam; but I am the fallen angel whom thous drivest from joy for no misdeed.
Sublime nature, awe
The power of our human passions
Glacier it had filled me with a sublime ecstasy that gave wings to my soul, and allowed to sour from the obscure world to light and joy
The ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts - it cannot withstand you
Ice begins to move roarings like thunder.
(link -I never beheld something so utterly destroyed. Thunder burst through the heavens)
Cracked behind us
Driven with force towards the north
I have but one resource, and I devote myself
The monster and awe: my spirits see elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature; the past was blotted from my memory,the present was tranquil, and the future gilt by bright rays of hope and anticipations of joy
Walton and Frankenstein and the Creature
Ardent Satiate Wretch Eloquent - power over my heart A heart poisoned with remorse Evil thenceforth became my good The creatures end : Bourne away by waves Lost in the darkness and the distance Ardour to acquiring the art of language Walton's disappointment on giving up on his pursuit: thus my hopes are blasted by cowardice and indecision; I come back ignorant and disappointed
Frankenstein
Liminal
Psychoanalytic
Denied grief, fear of death
Fear of sexuality, intimacy with Elizabeth
An anxiety that almost amounted to agony
Trembling with passion, I tore to pieces the thing on which I was engaged
A race of Devils propagated
She might become ten thousand times more malignant than her mate
Companion
Promise
So that you will curse the hour of your birth
Disturbed by the wildest dreams
I thought I saw Elizabeth
First kiss on her lips
Became livid with the hue of death
I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms
I will be with you on your wedding night
She left me, and I continued some time walking up and down the passages of the house and inspecting every corner that might afford a threat to my adversity, I heard a shrill.
Procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection
His promise to Elizabeth
Terror
Leaves Elizabeth while searching obsessively
I felt the palpitation of every artery
I will be with you on your wedding night
She left me, and I continued some time walking up and down the passages of the house and inspecting every corner that might afford a threat to my adversity, I heard a shrill.
Procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection
His promise to Elizabeth
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I will be with you on your wedding night
She left me, and I continued some time walking up and down the passages of the house and inspecting every corner that might afford a threat to my adversity, I heard a shrill.
Procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection
His promise to Elizabeth
Mother’s death
How unfair
Yet how resolute she was
Denying grief
But in the name of determination to move forwards
Ambivalence
My mother attending upon her
She could no longer control her anxiety
Fortitude and benignity
Died calmly
I will endeavour to resign myself cheerfully to death
And why should I describe a sorrow which all have felt, and must feel?
Denying himself grief, wants to move forwards
The time at length arrives when grief is rather an indulgence than a necessity
Liminal
Lost to the ambition
Lost his humanity, created a monster, become a monster
But we understand.
Darkness had no effect on me
A churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life
I seem to have lost all soul and sensation in this one pursuit
Procrastinate all that related to my fears of affection
How falsehood can look so like the truth
Frankenstein
Unknown
Entrapment
Powerless
I never beheld something so utterly destroyed. Thunder burst through the heavens A black, comfortless sky Disturbed by the wildest dreams Held the corpse of dead mother Dante could not have conceived There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand I wish I were to die with you: I cannot live world of misery. I felt palpitation of every artery Nearly surrounded by ice Very thick fog My best hope Purest creature on earth Lifeless Inanimate A grin Everywhere I see bliss from which I am irrevocably excluded
Frankenstein
Context
Interesting coincidence with the French Revolution which was an attempt to make a ‘new man’ and a new nation - but at the cost of much bloodshed
A fable of revolutionary social engineering.
Frankenstein
Romanticism
View Nature as a sublime force beyond human understanding
Response to the enlightenment’s emphatic rationalism and mechanistic industrialisation and production lines over an individual’s worth
Strong passions, emotional, uncontrollable
Terror, and awe,
Egotistical ambition psychological focus
A tale of transgression
A secret skill that makes the protagonist independent, severs his social ties, and becomes obsessional end in itself and masters the master
Life after death, appeasing childhood fears
