Frankenstein & NLMG - Symbols - The Boat, PL, ROAM, MP Flashcards
The Boat begins as what?
A rumour, then it becomes tangible and Tommy, Ruth, who has gone through donations, and Kathy arrive.
The Boat symbolises what?
Current reality of clones as liminal and reflects their bleak fate.
The Boat: ‘beached under the marches’/’stranded’
‘beached under the marches’ - like the boat, the clones exist in a liminal state - othered.
Unable to escape their reality and their fate.
The Boat: ‘once a painted sky blue, now almost white’
Colour Imagery.
Depreciating of clones hope into an empty void.
‘white’ in recovery centre.
The Boat: ‘ghostly dead trunks; / ‘The tree trunk hollow’ / ‘The weak and more emaciated sun’
S.F of decay - reflecting clones bleak mortality.
AO4) Similar words used to describe the Orkneys.
What is PL?
Text very influenced by the Romantics such as Percy Shelley, Wordsworth and Byron.
Romantics -> Didn’t see Lucifer as villain, instead a victim of unfair treatment of God.
‘I ought to be thy Adam, but rather I am the fallen angel’
Monster to Victor.
In Alps.
Monster internalises his mistreatment, comparing himself to Lucifer in the same way that Victor banished the monster.
‘Did I request thee, maker from my clay to mould me man? Did I solicit thee from darkness to promote me?
Epigraph.
Much like Adam, who is presented as a victim of God’s ambitions, so too is the Monster victim of Victor’s desire for omnipotence.
‘like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence I am chained in an eternal hell’
End of text
Everlasting torment - Victor loses his loved ones.
Victor learnt a lesson - blasphemous nature of things he has done
‘But I shall kill no albatross’
Rime of Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Colleridge
Doesn’t want to transgress and usurp nature, but in the end he does.
Leading to his punishment as he tries to conquer the arctic.
He learns (‘if we are lost my mad schemes are the cause’) to ‘seek happiness in tranquillity and avoid ambition’.
