FRANKENSTEIN CRITICS Flashcards
MADIGAN -
compassion
“[Frankenstein] lacks compassion for his creature”
DAVID PUNTER -
overeacher
“Frankenstein is an overeacher who refuses to accept limitations and is subsequently punished”
HETHERINGTON -
punished
“the protagonist is punished for overstepping the boundaries laid down by God”
GILBER AND GUBAR -
misogynistic
“a blind rejection of women by misogynistic patriarchy”
DAVID PUNTER -
domestic world / creature
“the creature idolises the domestic world, but is excluded from it”
CLARIDGE -
failure to parent
“the story demonstrates the failure of human beings to parent their offspring”
MELLOR -
danger of dismissing/possessing females
“the novel traces out the dangerous consequences of of attempting to either posses or dismiss the female”
WILLIAMS -
boundaries between human and monster
“boundaries between the human and the monster remain problematically blurred”
DANNY BOYLE -
2011 - stage production
actor who played Victor / monster swapped roles each night:
“Frankenstein and the creature literally create each other”
EDISON FILM COMPANY -
1910
- doubling
- monster sees own relfections, but then it turns into Victor
KATSNER -
Shelly; child
“Shelly identified with the abandoned child”
RICHARDSON -
‘passive objects’
“women in the novel are passive objects, made property by the male subject”
REED -
will and fate
“two basic human attitudes oppose one another - will and fate”
FRED BOTTING -
opposites and reality
the liminal is used to show ‘the reality and it’s opposite’
ALAN BEWELL -
sexual reproduction
‘link between literary activity and sexual reproduction’ - a male cannot create life, therefore producing manuscripts etc are the male form of procreation.
