!! Frankenstein Master Deck Flashcards
Walton
Failure
“If I fail, you will see me again soon, or never”
Knows when to quit unlike Victor
Walton
Creature
“had the shape of a man… of gigantic stature”
unnatural and inhuman
Walton
Victor
3
“celestial spirit”
“melancholy and desparing”
“beam of benevolance and sweetness”
byronic hero, beautiful but despairing - parallels to creature
Walton
Victor noble
“a noble creature in his better days being even now in wreck so attractive and amiable”
creature repetition
Walton
Victor creature
“creature destoryed by misery”
Walton
Ambition
“Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught?”
“slave of passion”
addiction symbolism, hamartia of ambition
Victor
Elizabeth ownership
2
“my more than sister”
“since till death she was to be mine only
women as objects to be owned and gained, incest, taboo
Victor
Elizabeth supernatural
3
“shone like a shrine-dedicated lamp”
“celestial eyes”
“spirit of love”
women to be worshipped - still dehumanised and objectified
Victor
Henry supernatural
3
“noble spirit”
“so full of kindness and tenderness”
“his passion”
similarities to the way Elizabeth is described, link to critic
Victor
Lightning strike
4
“frightful loudness”
“stream of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak”
“nothing remained but a blasted stump”
“I never beheld anything so utterly destroyed”
first fascination with death and life
Victor
M. Waldman
3
“expressive of the greatest benevolence”
“his voice was the sweetest I had ever heard”
“as he went on I felt as if my soul were grappling a plapable enemy”
appreciates and is in awe of men similar to Elizabeth, but moreso??
Victor
Churchyard
5
“whence… did the principle of life proceed?”
“supernatural enthusiasm”
“observe the natural decay and destruction”
“delicacy of the human feelings”
“change from life to death, and death to life”
distances himself from humanity, being more unnatural, clinical
Victor
Churchyard arrogance
“among so many men… that I alone should be reserved to discover so astonishing a secret”
Victor preparing to make the creature
“renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption”
philosophical, foreshadowing, supernatural
Elizabeth insecurity
3
“do you love another?”
“but it is your happiness I desire”
“I know you will comply” - Victor
submissive women
Walton to Victor
First impression
2
“noble creature in his better days”
“even now in wreck so attractive and amiable”
from nobility to wreck, fall from grace, bryonic hero
Waltons first impresson of the creature
2
“a being”
“gigantic stature”
detaching creature from humanity, terror
Creature
nature of man
“I was not even of the same nature as man”
isolated, otherness. abject
Walton returning home
“I have consented to return if we are not destroyed”
ambitious, but has learnt boundaries unlike Victor
Creature wanting a companion
2
“rage that burned within me”
“I am malicious because I am miserable”
violent imagery, madness & isolation, women as healing
Victor destroying Creature
“I persued my path towards the destruction of the deamon”
ambiguous ending, liminality man and monster, ambition = doom
Creature
Monster
2
“That I was in reality the monster that I am”
- linked to “I grew alarmed at the wrech I percieved that I had become” (V)
anaphora, parallel syntax
Victor about Elizabeth
3
“Celestial eyes”
“spirit of love”
“shone like a shrine-dedicated lamp”
supernatural language, worship and objectifying
Victor about Justine
4
“exquisitely beautiful”
“she fell into violent hysterics”
“unhappy victim”
“the first hapless victims to my unhallowed arts”
women being objectified, being spoken for
Elizabeth about Justine
“she is very clever and gentle and extremely pretty”
only what she can provide + appearance, shallow, stereotypical
Victor wretch
2
! “I had turned loose into the world a miserable wretch”
- ambiguous, liminality ; man or monser?
! “In the light of my own vampire, my own spirit let loose from the grave”
- creature is victors spirit - Jekyll & Hyde, Victors id
Victor to the creature after Williams death
3
“Devil”
“diabollically murdered”
“daemon”
religious imagery, links to paradise lost, well known social idea
VIctor chasing creature to arctic
“Until he or I shall perish in mortal conflict”
Isolation, madness, mutual destruction, liminality of man and monster
Victor after creating the Creature
“unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created”
links to motherhood, blaspemy against God and nature
Victor while creating the Creature
4
“unnatrual stimulus”
“my limbs now tremble”
“frantic impluse pulled me forward”
“nighly labours”
sexual imagery, creation of life without a woman (against gods design)
Victor witnessing a lightning strike
2
“I beheld a stream of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak which stood about twenty yards from our house”
“I never beheld anything so utterly destroyed”
foreshadowing, pathetic fallacy
Victor to Elizabeth
death
“Since till death she would be mine only”
objectifying women, damsel in distress
Victor slave to impulses
2
“I was the slave to my creature”
“governed by impulses”
id, dark desires, playing God
Victor to Walton
warning
2
“a serpent to sting you”
“have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught?”
links to biblical imagery - devil, ambition
Victors speech
melodramatic
3
“begone, vile insect!”
“abhorred monster!”
“The tortures of hell are too mild a vengance for thy crimes”
“devil”
juxtaposition to creatures speech
Creatures speech
eloquent
4
“I expected this reception”
“How dare you sport thus with life?”
“I will even be mild and docile to my natural lord and king”
“I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel”
juxtapoition to Victors speech
Victor and hell
“bore a hell within me”
- Victor sees himself and guilty
pregnancy link, religious imagery, some responsibility
Creature to Victor
cursed
“cursed, cursed creator!”
abject, religious imagery, the revenant, alliteration
Victor to his work
“my heart sicked at the work of my hands”
Creature
beast
“I was like a wild beast that had broken the toils”
zoomorphism, atavism, returning to nature
Creature and satan
“Satan had his companions… but I am solitary and abhorred”
religious imagery, isolation
Victors hope for the Creature
“A new species to bless me as its creator”
act against God, ambition
Creature to Victor
sport
“How dare you sport thus with life?”
played god, transgression, now wants to take life as if he’s god again
Creature to Victor
misery
3
“am miserable beyond all living things”
“I am miserable and they shall share my wretchedness”
“misery made me a fiend”
sympathetic, abject, nature vs. nurture
Victor in nature
positive
6
“solitary grandeur”
“sublime and magnificent scenes”
“sublime ecstasy”
“terrifically desolate”
“perfect solitude”
“perfectly solitary”
Victor in nature
negative
“I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave”
Victor melodramatic
blight, anguish and possessed
3
“a blight had come over my existence”
“filled my soul with anguish” “these thoughts possessed me”
Victor contradictory
2
“inexpressible pleasure” “my sorrowful and dejected mind”
Intertextual reference
Samuel Taylor Colderidge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Victor is cursed, and warns others against what he did.
Victor Chruchyard, Worm
“Churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life”
“food for the worm”
Victor Torrent
“a torrent of light into this dark world”
refers to to his creation,
Gothic oppositions of light and dark often refer to rationality and irrationality respectively, which may suggest that the creature is representative of rationality and knowledge in an otherwise corrupt and clouded world
