Frankenstein Lit Crits Flashcards
Alder - the ocean’s precarious surface
the ocean’s precarious surface interfaces between life and death, chaos and order, self and other’
Baker - There is a split
There is a split in gothic characters, found most explicitly in Mr Jekyll and Dr Hyde
bloom - ‘Frankenstein is both
‘Frankenstein is both a father and a god that has failed to love his marred creation’
botting - “Terror enables
“Terror enables escape…[horror] rendering the mind passive and immobilising the body.”
Chaplin - “The monster is ‘born’
“The monster is ‘born’ into the world lacking any formative influences… the result is a deeply alienated creature
Crook - Frankenstein could be read
Frankenstein could be read “as a paradigm of the French Revolution, with the Creature an emblem of the multitude, or Bonaparte, or revolutionary energy.”
Davenport
‘Ambition is evil in Shelley’s book’
Furst - “a thing is romantic when
“a thing is romantic when, as Aristotle would say, it is wonderful rather than probable.. when it violates the normal sequence of cause and effect in favour of adventure… the savage, the peasant, and above all the child.”
Jackson - Frankenstein’s creation is
Frankenstein’s creation is a displaced desire to be at one with the mother again
Kestner - Perhaps Frankenstein
Perhaps Frankenstein is not merely the Modern Prometheus, but the modern Narcissus’
Knudsen - by minimizing
by minimizing the female characters in Frankenstein, Mary Shelley made a silent protest against this stereotyped language about women in literature.’
Lanser - The Creature is an
The Creature is an ‘incarnation of Frankenstein’s own grotesque soul’
Mellor - Nature’s revenge
Nature’s revenge is absolute; he who violates her secret hiding places is destroyed’
Mellor - Motive of Victor
Motive of Victor is to eliminate all women in society”
Punter - Frankenstein’s main sin
Frankenstein’s main sin is not his act of creation, but his failure to take responsibility for what he produces’
