Frankenstein & NLMG - Othered Creations Flashcards
‘Savage inhabitant of some undiscovered country’
Victor says this about Monster in Chapter 10
Primal. Primitive. Uncivilised.
‘Savage inhabitant of some undiscovered country’ links to which quote in NLMG?
‘You could see her stiffen… as if a pair of large spiders was set to crawl towards her’
She remains fearful, she still discriminates and will never see them as human.
Primal. Primitive. Uncivilised.
‘lifeless thing’
Victor says this about Monster.
Vague Language.
Already stripped monster of identity.
Detached himself from his creation.
‘lifeless thing’ links to which quote in NLMG?
‘She looked at us in the same way someone might be afraid of spiders’
Parallelism to ‘You could see her stiffen… as if a pair of large spiders was set to crawl towards her’
She remains fearful, she still discriminates and will never see them as human.
Primal. Primitive. Uncivilised.
‘devil’ ‘demon’ ‘vile insect’ ‘wretch’ links to which quote in NLMG?
‘like a dog doing a pee’ / ‘mad animal’
Simile. Tommy humiliates himself. Derogatory language.
Tommy as most vulnerable clone, internalising their mistreatment, directing their suppressed emotions towards Tommy.
‘I ought to be thy Adam, rather I am the fallen angel’
Archaic Language. Eg ‘thou’ ‘thy’ - he’s supposed to be uncivilised and uneducated.
Monster internalises his mistreatment, cannot be the ideal man.
AO3: Romantics viewed Lucifer as victim of an oppressive weighty force, God.
‘My kennel’ / ‘exposed by a pig sty’ ‘agreeable asylum’
Alliterative Phrase - emphatic of Monster’s almost passive acceptance of his refuge.
Animalistic Imagery - Subhuman.
Even rejected by the De Lacey’s, who are ‘poor’ and ‘exiled’.
‘My kennel’ / ‘exposed by a pig sty’ ‘agreeable asylum’ links to which quote in NLMG?
‘The remains of a farm had gone out of business years before’
remains - cloning programme is not functioning, it has been hasty and not fit for purpose.
farm - noun - clones harvested for organs like cattle, dehumanised, animalised.
business - profitable gains.
‘I ought to be thy Adam, rather I am the fallen angel’ links to which quote in NLMG?
‘we’re modelled from trash, junkies, prostitutes, winos, tramps.’
Form of human waste.
Asyndetic listing of emotive language.
After went to see Ruth’s possible, but it wasn’t her, then Ruth has this outburst.
uncivilised and uneducated, lowest in society.
