Frankenstein Chapter 5

Romantic Movement Romantics- disheartened liberals Romantics-sought solitude in nature Romantics-believe that emotional healing found in nature Nature imagery is the most predominate feature of Romantic literature Romantics-used the idea of the disenfranchised man-not able to live in society Frankenstein and creature and disenfrachised men

Coleridge and both Shelleys Dealt with the supernatural Romantic idea-ordinary thngs seem wonderful and awe-inspiring Romantic idea- dealt with non-natural things

Gothic Literature From Romantic literature Predecessor of modern horror in theme and style Spin on the Romantic idea of nature worship and nature imagery Nature given healing powers and destruction powers Indication of mood through the weather-foreshadowing Storms, stormy weather

Cornelius Agrippa Renaissance philosopher and scientist with strong interest in the occult Ancient mystical sciences of the near East Magic-astrology planetary motion on human events Spells, predicting of th future Numerology Evil spirits

Paracelsus Renaissance philosopher and scientist who introduced a new concept of disease treatment with the use of chemicals, not herbs, to treat diseases Alchemy-chemical remedies prepared Paracelsus- diseases caused by external agents attacking the body, not internal upset of yellow bile, black bile, blood and phlegm

Albertus Magnus Renaissance philosopher and scientist Natural causes of things apart from the church position that God was the cause of all effects Roger Bacon advocated against Magnus Roger Bacon did to reconcile his scientific theories with Church doctrine

Literary Allusion Milton’s Paradise Lost Adam and Eve “Ancient Mariner” “The Modern Prometheus” Prometheus was a Greek god in charge of giving out gifts to the various creatures on Earth, speed, instinct, By the time he got to mankind, he was out of gifts. Went against orders and gave man fire (knowledge) Angered the Gods because man now is becoming God like Punished by being chained to a rock, vulture devouring his liver Liver grew back every night to be eaten the next day

The Monster: Chapter 6 Limbs were in proportion Features as beautiful Yellow skin Hair was of a lustrous black and flowing Teeth of a pearly white Watery eyes Shriveled complexion Straight black lips

Beauty of the dream vanished Breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. I rushed out of the room Slept –had wild dreams Dream of Elizabeth walking in the streets of Ingolstradt Embraces her, kisses her, she dies, corpse of my dead mother, Graveworms,

Monster holding the curtain of the bed Muttered inarticulate sounds One hand stretched out to detain me I escaped “No mortal could support eh horror of that countenance. A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch. I had gazed on hom while unfinished; he was ugly then; but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived” (61).

I felt the bitterness of disappointment “Dreams that had been my food and pleasant rest for so long a space were now become a hell to me; and the change was so rapid, the overthrow so complete” (61) ! Allusion to Coleridge’s “Ancient Mariner”

“Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, “Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, . . . Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread” “ . . . He has permitted me to undertake a voyage of discovery to the land of knowledge” (63). Henry Clerval Victor Frankenstein Unrestrained heartless laughter Wildness in eyes Jumped over chairs, clapped hands Hallucinating about viewing the monster “Save me! Save me!” Fell down in a fit

Chapter 6 Ernest is 16 Justine Mortiz -12 to live with the Frankenstein family As a servant- educated Mimicked the aunt’s phraseology and manners Justine’s brothers and sister died, then mother William is now 5 or so, dark hair and dimples

Function of the letters Letters are the vehicles by which the first person narrator can relate information that he and the reader has not witnessed