FRANKENSTEIN QUOTES Flashcards
VICTOR acting as a vengeful God - by creating life, V is actively going against what people at the time believed to be God’s work
intertextuality with Paradise Lost: creature refers to himself as Adam - “I ought to be thy Adam…” and likens Victor to a vengeful God.
MORAL TRANSGRESSION
fatherhood and creation
“the monster on whom i bestowed existence”
lack of parenting towards the creature:
“you, my creator, abhor me”
lack of Creature’s guilt
“i gazed upon my victim, and my heart swelled with… hellish triumph”
repeated lexical pattern’s of Victor relying on fate and destiny
‘omen’
‘fate’
‘destiny’
Victor’s change towards science
‘violent antipathy’
- he doesnt want to be reminded of his mistake of creating the ‘monster’
the creature causing other people to run away
“I escaped…fearing each sound”
the change in Victor’s demeanor fromm mid-creation to after the creature was made
‘beautiful’ - MID
‘the beauty of the dream vanished’ - AFTER
the different names Victor calls the creature
“abhorred monster”
“wretched devil”
“abhorred devil”
the creature’s respect for Victor through the names he calls him
“my creator”
“natural lord and king”
what threatens a predominately Christian society?
Victor’s “scientific pursuit”
Walton moving further from civilisation - closer to ‘otherness’ through the sighting of someone who appears like a man, but also appears like something else
“the shape of a man, but apparently a gigantic structure”
Victor’s form of reproduction
“longing to penetrate the secrets of nature”
- ‘penetrate’ suggests reproduction (LINK TO BEWELL QUOTE) as well as his attempt at being God-like (the father of man-kind)
parallels between Walton and Victor -
“tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man” - Walton wants to be the first to walk there - whilst Victor wants to create life
the differences between Walton and Victor -
“I have consented to return, if we are not destroyed” - Walton knows when to return home.
“i, not in deed, but in effect, was the true murderer” - perhaps he does not accept his responsibility - on-going cycle?
