Monsters/ Humanity/ Outsiders Flashcards
Unnatural or too natural- Other and therefore called diabolic: Creature: - terms of address -shape GK: initial description/ colour G and Arthur say he is: after decapetation chapel
hellish monster, Devil, Daemon, fiend
his ghastly and distorted shape
Monstrous apparition// unnatural
“green from head to toe!”
He swung his body round,/ a disfigured, bleeding trunk.”
to your left hand// a place fit for the devil
Familiarity/ Difference GK is still accepted Wealth: Appearance: Awareness of Camelot: Welcome/ Acceptance:
“his stomach and wait were fashionably trim, and all his features in proportion…exactly right”
“elegant cloak,/ lined with bleached fur… richest ermine”
“here is shown chivalry, or so I am told”
Arthur agrees to fight him
Creature rejected because too much difference
shape and speed:
No rights to rep:
his ghastly and distorted shape
travels at “superhuman speed. “
I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property… Was I then a monster?
Appearance affects but reader can still sympathise with humanity: v re form w re form childlike wants company:
sometimes felt a wish to console him; but when I looked upon him…my heart sickened
Ugliness is “scaring”
Sometimes I wished to express my sensations in my own mode, but the uncouth and inarticulate sounds
I longed to join them
I called on him to stay….He paused, looking on me with wonder
Some years ago… I felt the cheering warmth of summer, and heard the rustling of the leaves and the chirping of the birds, and these were all to me, I should have wept to die; now it is my only consolation.
“You must create a female for me, with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being.”
Differing opinions on humanity Victor: existentialsim Victor: fixed nature Creature: tabula rasa Creature is nurture:
I had begun life with benevolent intentions, and thirsted for the moment when I should put them in practice… Now all was blasted
-infantine dispositions, which, however they may be afterwards modified, are never eradicated
-this little creature was unprejudiced, and had lived too short a time to have imbibed a horror of deformity…educate him as my companion and friend,
‘I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy and I shall again be virtuous’