'Frankenstein' Context Flashcards
In what year did Luigi Galvani and his wife, Lucia, notice they could make frogs legs twitch with an electrical spark?
1780.
Who created galvanism?
Luigi Galvani, and his wife, Lucia.
What happened in 1780?
Luigi Galvani and his wifey realised they could make dead frog legs twitch with an electrical spark.
What did Giovanni Aldini attempt to do in 1803?
Re-animate the body of murder Thomas Forster, using electricity (galvanism).
Who attempted to re-animate the body of murderer Thomas Forster in 1803 using galvanism?
Giovanni Aldini.
What was the life-principle debate?
An argument between materialists (who argued the life was a physical process) and those who argued in favour of an immortal soul.
Who argued that scientists should use their knowledge not for personal glorification but for its wider benefits?
Humphrey Davy.
What did Humphrey Davy write about i his pamphlet?
He suggested that chemistry may provide the answer to the secret of life, but that scientists must retain their respect and use knowledge carefully and responsibly, not for personal glorification.
What revolutions occurred during the era this book was written?
American Revolution, Haitian Revolution, French Revolution: there was a great sense of need for social change and to challenge oppressive hierarchies.
Who wrote ‘The Angel in the House’?
Coventry Patmore.
What book did Mary Wollstonecraft write?
A Vindication of the Rights of Women (porto-feminist).
What book did William Godwin write?
An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (protocol-anarchist).
Who describes the theory of tabula rasa?
Enlightenment philosopher John Locke.
Who were Calvinists?
Those who believed people were pre-programmed as being good or evil.
Who believed that people were pre-programmed as being good or evil?
Calvinists.
Which enlightenment philosopher expresses the need for a positive mentor figure in childhood?
Rousseau.
What does enlightenment philosopher Rousseau suggest about childhood development?
Through his novel, ‘Emile’, Rousseau depicts an idyllic childhood where Emile is guided through various learning experiences.
What does Enlightenment philosopher Diderot say?
“no man will be free until the last King is strangled with the entrails of the last Priest”.
What books does the Creature read?
Volney’s ‘Ruins of Empires’.
John Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’.
‘Plutarch’s Lives’.
Goethe’s ‘The Sorrows of Werther’.
What happens in Volney’s ‘Ruins of Empires’?
It condemns the corruption of the church and discusses rank, wealth and poverty.
It suggests mankind is corrupt.
What happens in ‘Plutarch’s Lives’?
It illuminates moral failings in its depictions of greatness and heroism.
What happens in Goethe’s ‘The Sorrows of Werther’?
A young man develops a romantic infatuation with a married woman (unrequited love) and ultimately kills himself.
How does James D. Wilson characterise a Romantic hero?
An individual who triumphs over the “restraints of theological and social convention”.
What happens in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem ‘Mutability’?
It reflects on the idea of impermeable and flux.
