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Mind Map by shankelly3, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by shankelly3
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Context- Frankenstein
- Old Testament Reference
- Monster can be identified with Adam, in that he is a new creation.
- Also be identified with Satan in that
he turns against his creator
- Frankenstein= Satan in that he defies
God, usurping God's power as the creator of life
- Monster can be identified with Adam, in that he is a new creation.
- Scientific links
- Written at a time of intense debate about
science
- Galvanism
- Galvani- physican believed that you
could almost create life from an electric
current. Shelley perhaps was influence
by this, in creation of Monster
- Galvani- physican believed that you
could almost create life from an electric
current. Shelley perhaps was influence
by this, in creation of Monster
- Erasmus Darwin
- Write about nature of organic life and evolution.
- Victor is too impatient and self centred
to accept the slow pace of evolution
- His intervention in natural
processes- usurps the power of
creation reserved for God.
- His intervention in natural
processes- usurps the power of
creation reserved for God.
- Victor is too impatient and self centred
to accept the slow pace of evolution
- Write about nature of organic life and evolution.
- Written at a time of intense debate about
science
- Humphry Davy
- Davy was conscious of the negative potential in the increase of
human knowledge
- important to use knowledge carefully and responsibly- not for personal
glorification
- important to use knowledge carefully and responsibly- not for personal
glorification
- Davy was conscious of the negative potential in the increase of
human knowledge
- Masculine and Feminine
- Mary believed, as Anna. K. Mellor has argued.
- There is both good and bad
science.
- They can be associated with
masculine and feminine
attitudes
- They can be associated with
masculine and feminine
attitudes
- There is both good and bad
science.
- Nature= feminine Scientist= masculine
- In Scientific language
- In Scientific language
- Mary believed, as Anna. K. Mellor has argued.
- Nature vs Science
- Frankenstein completely disrupts this natural process
- Removes female contribution to monster creation
- denying the monster any opportunity for maternal love
- Removes female contribution to monster creation
- Frankenstein completely disrupts this natural process
- Background
- Literary style to influence the novel was Gothic Horror
- German ghost stories
- Samuel Coleridge- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- Paradise Lost- John Milton
- German ghost stories
- Literary style to influence the novel was Gothic Horror
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