Genre Flashcards
EPIC FR: places visited: Shared traits between creature and monster- doubling: Vamp: NC... g/w; mind= inspo speech: effect on walton: new species: creature capability: C for the good of Delaney's PL: Metaphor x2 journey for good of a people/ demigod, towards... physically superior/ disguise, He/ rest... for self, (ease) establishes humanity: PL/B10 never calls god, god- epithets crit PL
FR::
Geneva, Ingolstadt, descend the Rhine, Holland, London, Orkneys
nearly in the light of my own vampire, my own spirit let loose from the grave
Noble creature…He is so gentle, yet so wise; his mind is so cultivated;
Oh! be men, or be more than men. Return as heroes who have fought and conquered, Walton: I had rather die, than return shamefully,
A new species would bless me as its creator
“Superhuman speed”
I found that in doing this I inflicted pain on the cottagers, I abstained
PL::
Epic simile of scary marsh lights “unctuous vapour kindled through agitation to a flame”
“hovering and blazing with delusive light”
“Satan having compast the Earth”
‘Towards him they bend / With awful reverence prone and as a god’
‘He above the rest / In shape and gesture proudly eminent / Stood like a tower’
“fawning” “gentle dumb expression”
“only in destroying i find ease to my relentless thoughts”
The World was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest
“epic matter and motivations, epic genre conventions”- Lewalski
Blake and Shelley- satan is hero
GOTHIC FR: monstrosity in that is an aberration of a genre- the popular Gothic romances. candle rain mist castles vamp gnashed secret will story= creature at end...?
“candle was nearly burned out” “rain pouring in torrents” and “thick mists”
Gothic – creature “hanging among the rocks” “ruined castles hanging on the precipices of piny mountains”
Creature is victor’s “vampire, my own spirit let loose from the grave”
“When I thought of him I gnashed my teeth, my eyes became inflamed”
V describes his secret as being one which will “chill your frame with horror”
“strange and terrific story”
Creature becomes “lost in the darkness and distance”