FRANKENSTEIN / NLMG Flashcards
CONTEXTS
JACQUES LACAN
THE MIRROR STAGE - IMPORTANT MILESTONE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN
JOHN LOCKE
TABULA RASA - HUMANS ARE BORN SIMILAR TO A BLANK SLATE, SOCIETIES TREATMENT OF A PERSON MOULDS A PERSON
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
HUMANS ARE BORN IN A STATE OF INNOCENCE, BUT HAVE THE INNATE CAPACITY FOR SELF PRESERVATION
‘MAN IS BORN FREE BUT LIVES FOREVER IN CHAINS’
THOMAS HOBBES
MAN IS BORN ‘NASTY AND BRUTISH’
IMMANUEL KANT
DUTY BASED ETHICS
THE MODERN PROMETHEUS (F)
GREEK MYTHOLOGY, LINKS TO OVERREACHING
VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN IS AN OVERAMBITIOUS CREATOR
GOETHE (F)
FAUST - LIMITATIONS OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE - VICTOR FEELS LIMITED AS A HUMAN THEREFORE DEEMS IT ACCEPTABLE TO PLAY GOD
PARADISE LOST (F)
THE CREATURE IS AKIN TO A FALLEN ANGEL AND WARNS OF DESTRUCTION LIKE AN OLD TESTAMENT PROPHET
MARCEL PROUST (NLMG)
INVOLUNTARY MEMORY - MEMORIES ARE SPONTANEOUS AND DIFFICULT TO SUPPRESS
THE UNCANNY VALLEY EFFECT (NLMG)
ARTIFICIAL BEINGS THAT LOOK MOST LIKE REAL HUMANS AND LIFE LIKE
SIGMUND FREUD (NLMG)
THE UNCANNY IS THE PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE OF SOMETHING ALIEN BEING STRANGELY FAMILIAR (UNHEIMLICH)
JEREMY BENTHAM (NLMG)
THE GREATEST HAPPINESS FOR THE GREATEST NUMBER - IS THE OPPRESSION OF THE CLONES BENEFICIAL FOR THE GREATER SOCIETY ??
ALESSANDRO VOLTA (F)
PIONEER OF POWER AND ELECTRICITY, INVENTED THE BATTERY (1800)
LUIGI GALVANI
GALVANISM - ABILITY TO MAKE FROGS LEGS MOVE WITH ELECTRIC JOLTS - LINKS TO THE CREATION OF THE CREATURE
ANDREW URE
BODY SNATCHING - LINKS TO VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN
MARY SHELLEY
- MOTHER DIED 3 WEEKS AFTER HER BIRTH
- MARRIED PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY AT 16
- IDEA FOR FRANKENSTEIN CAME IN A NIGHTMARE AND WAS WRITTEN DURING A RETREAT WITH OTHER WRITERS I.E. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY AND LORD BYRON
KAZUO ISHIGURO
- MAINLY USES FIRST PERSON NARRATIVES
- INFLUENCED BY PROUST
- LINKS TO THE EXISTENCE OF THE CLONES - NOT SURE WHETHER I BELONG IN JAPAN OR ENGLAND’
EDMUND BURKE
THE SUBLIME - POWERFUL FEELINGS FILL THE MIND TO THE EXCLUSION OF EVERYTHING
