Genre Flashcards

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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
A

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

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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...?
A

“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”

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