Mary Shelley Notes, Intro, and Letters 1 & 2 Flashcards
the monster thing in Frankenstein is called “…” not “…”
the creature; Frankenstein
person that makes the creature is
Victor Frankenstein
subtitle:
Or, The Modern Prometheus
Modern in subtitle refers to
Romantic era
myth-making: putting … together to …
pieces; make a whole
(Prometheus) 1st generation of gods called …., 2nd generation of gods called …, 3rd generation of gods called …
primordial deities; Titans; Olympians
(Prometheus) Prometheus is a … –> … member of the .. generation
Titan; older; 2nd
(Prometheus) Zeus rises up and … all … except Prometheus, because Zeus wants him to … who would … Zeus
kills; Titans; make men; worship
(Prometheus) Prometheus makes men out of … and … breathes life into man
mud; Athena
(Prometheus) Prometheus’s name means … –> predates our …
Prometheus … mankind, takes … of them
forethought; consciousness; loves; responsibility
(Prometheus) Zeus tells Prometheus that he has to decide what belongs to … or … through …
gods; humans; sacrifice
(Prometheus) Prometheus sacrifices .., keeps … and … for gods –> … Zeus, so humans can have …
calf; bones; fats; tricks; meat
(Prometheus) Zeus takes away … from man when he finds out about the trick –> Prometheus decides to … and … back
fire; climb Mount Olympius; steal fire
(Prometheus) Prometheus punished eternally: tied to …, … comes and … his …, which regenerate
eventually … saves him
rock; eagle; eats; organs; Hercules
(Prometheus) key words for novel from prometheus’s story:”
…
…
…
responsible creator; sacrifice; regenerate
(Prometheus) modern Prometheus –> … Prometheus
from …, spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling
Romantic; Industrial Revolution
novel makes use of … –> origin of …
etymology; words
novel has epigraph from: quote spoken by … to … in …
Adam; God; John Milton’s Paradise Lost
epigraph is from … of Paradise Lost. In this moment, Adam is …, …, thinks creator is …, asking God, “did I .. to …?”
Book 10; indignant; lonely; imperfect; ask you; make me
Mary Shelley’s introduction written in …, Percy Shelley wrote the first one in … and the book was published in …
By 1831, Percy is …
1831; 1817; 1816; dead
Mary Shelley is a
bluestocking
Shelley’s novel is so smart that when it first came out people were convinced that … and gave it to her as a …
Percy wrote it; gift
Biography consists of … and …
bios; graphe
bios: …/… life
graphe: … (the ….)
shaped; structured; language; written word
Shelley’s novel is a
biography
Shelley’s parents were …, who died … Mary was born and …. who … their … who Mary didn’t like
Mary Wollstonecraft; the year; William Godwin; married; neighbor
Shelley meets Percy in …, who loved works of Mary’s parents. Percy already married to …, but starts … Mary and the two have a … who …
1815; Harriet; courting; child; dies
Summer of 1816, Percy and Mary take a vacation to … with: Mary Shelley’s …, ….; … and his …., …
Switzerland; sister; Claire; Lord Byron; doctor; John Polidori
All of them in Switzerland share a … and it … all summer
cabin; rains
Mary and Claire frequently felt left out, because everyone else were
writers
Byron suggests that they write …
Polidori writes … –> leads to modern idea of …
Mary writes …
That summer … commits … because Percy …
ghost stories; Vampyre; Vampire; Frankenstein; Harriet; suicide; left her
manuscript composed of: … + ..
manu; scripere
manu: …
scripere: to …
hand; write
hands are agents of … and ..
creation; destruction
palpable
to touch
corporeal: … (… of text)
body; body
corporeal –> Mary Shelley makes body of …, Frankenstein makes a …
text; body
think about how this book touches us in terms of our …, body of text touches your body in the way it …
bodily function; scares
Mary wrote Frankenstein when she was
18
Mary is two things: “
… (Greek) = …
… (Latin) = …
Poeta; maker; Vates; visionary
Poeta and Vates are words for … , which is what Mary is
… for ancients applied to any writer
we need to think of the book in context of …
poets; poets; poetry
mary as a poet: making something … out of a … –> a …, opened 1 eye and saw a … staring back at her
physical; vision; dream; yellow eye
reading is …
metaphysical sight
sight is twofold: … (with …) and …
we only use organ of sight for one of these
physical; eyes; metaphysical
monster: a creature in a myth or legend that is horrifying in both … and …
action; appearance
monster composed of: … + …
monere; monstrum
monere: to …
monstrum: …/….
warn; demonstrate/instruct
warning + instruction = … (…)
DeMONSTration (signs)
monsters only work/succeed if there’s something wrong with the … or the … that houses them
monsters exploit the already existing …
hero; society; hole
monsters are signs that point at
holes
semiotics: study of .. and their …
signs; meanings
How do we make meaning out of events or lives: tell ourselves a … –> make it …, leave out all …
story; cleaner; sensory details
William Blake wrote a … called …
poem; The Tyger
The Tyger is part of a larger work Blake wrote called …., which compares same subject matter in perspective of … and …
Songs of Innocence and Experience; child; adult
The Tyger: lamb talking to tiger - “ by what immortal hand or eye dare frame thy fearful symmetry.”
frame: …, …; things that … –> the .., …
symmetry: maybe tiger’s …, symmetry between … and …
contain; create; section off; body; world; stripes; tiger; lamb
we frame … and look for …
meaning; symmetry
Shelley’s novel can also be called …: story built of …
frame narrative; frames
Frames of Shelley’s novel:
… –> … –> … –> … –> … –> … –> … –> .,..
creator; victor; Robert Walton; Mrs. Saville; 2 prefaces; Epigraph; subtitle; title
Frames of her novel: … tells creature’s story, … tells Victor’s story which comes from …, comes after …, comes after …, after …, after …
Victor; Walton; letters; prefaces; epigraph; subtitle; title
Rene Magritte: French artist, drew an image of a … and wrote caption: “….”
pipe; This is not a pipe
Rene Magritte
signs are not what they … –> they are … what they represent
represent; like
names are bad … –> don’t represent who we are
signs
when Adam is angry at God, its because he wants
likeness
having … is one way we go about making meaning: “
what we …. and what we …
defining ourselves by what is … us and … us
likeness; are like; do like; like; not like
testimony: … + … –> a way of … what is happening
witness; action; assembling
testimony is what we try to achieve in … ourselves
defining
assembles: what is … and …
shown and told
mimesis: … (…)
diegesis: … (…)
the word are similar, but not the same thing for these definitions
imitate; show; narrate; tell
testimony is action of
retelling
creature acts, victor provides his …, and walter provides victor’s …
testimony; testimony
assemblage: book is about a man who … another man from dead body parts and stuff, assemblage of … and … and … and … and … –> the work itself is very much like the …
assembles; shown; told; letters; excerpts; frames; creature
psychomania doppelgangers: a conflict too great for one … to …
don’t look alike, but …
soul; handle; share conflict
Shelley calls her author’s introduction an “…”
wants us to think of this work as being a … of its own: should be a .. and an …
appendage; monster; warning; instruction
Mary believes that dreaming, act of dreaming, and recording dreams plays crucial role in act of …
has believed this since …
she gets her ideas from her …
dreams are where … come from
assembling what is … and … in … world
making; childhood; subconscious; stories; shown; told; dream
Percy wanted to see if Mary was worthy of having been … of such …: she had to prove it by …
born; intelligent parents; writing
as a girl, writing was her …. Dreams better than her writing, she thought. Writing then becomes a … for her and is directly tied to her … with Percy –> way of being … part of their relationship
pastime; duty; relationship; equal
In Switzerland, they find an old copy of old … in their cabin: Mary pays attention to the ones in which … and … is mingled –> interested in relationship between … and ..
German folktales; death; life; death; life
mary speaks about percy … –> thinks Frankenstein is worthless, but cares dearly for what Percy made –> thought Percy’s work was …
lovingly; beautiful
Every morning Byron would ask if she wrote a story and she’d have to say no
wanted to write a story that would … –> affect your …
quicken pace of heart; body
(letters 1-2) writer: …., a … year-old … who is embarking on a journey to the North Pole region in order to find a passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic
Robert Walton; 28; sea captain
(letters 1-2) Walton writing to his …, …, in London
sister; Mrs. Margaret Saville
(letters 1-2) Walton prepares for the trip by practice trips in the … of … and … trips
North Sea of Russia; whaling
(letters 1-2) Walton is sad that he has no
friends
(letters 1-2) Walton is fond of his … and the ship’s …
lieutenant; master
(letters 1-2) First letter written from … on …
St. Petersburgh; Dec. 11th
(letters 1-2) Walton considers himself more … than most
illiterate
(letters 1-2) … years passed since Walton resolved on his undertaking
six
(letters 1-2) to prepare, he went on whaling trips to places like … , endured …, …, …, and …, and devoted his nights to the study of …, …, and ….
Greenland; cold; famine; thirst; sleep deprivation; mathematics; theory of medicine; physical science
(letters 1-2) he has to dress in … in Russia due to the cold
furs
(letters 1-2) second letter set in … on …
Archangel; March 28th
(letters 1-2) by 2nd letter he has his own … and is hiring …
vessel; sailors
(letters 1-2) the ship’s master was once engaged but then let the woman go when he found out she … and gave his money to … so they could …
loved another; her love; get married
(letters 1-2) walton is going to …, to “the land of … and …”
unexplored regions; mist; snow
