The Creation/Pygmalion/God and Adam Archetypes Created By: Anna Rapp and Toby palmer Chapters 12-13

Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me, Did I solicit thee, From Darkness to promote me? Paradise Lost. X,743-745

The Younger Years The Younger Years UP Until Now Victor Frankenstein, as a young boy, grew up in the country of Geneva where his family was of very high esteem. When Frankenstein was about nine years old, his mother adopted a young girl named Elizabeth. Frankenstein being an only child at the time, appreciated his new found sister, and cherished her very dearly. A few years later, Victor Frankenstein’s mother became ill with the scarlet fever. With the death of his mother, Victor dove into his studies of science and philosophy. He attended a well known University, where his dreams of science began to take form. While discovering the means of creation and the laws of science, Victor would soon push the limits of human nature and the power of God.

Character Development Isolation (Chapter12) Plot Development Character Development In chapter 10 Frankenstein has come face-to-face to his demonic creation. For the first time Frankenstein’s creation is able to speak and has a rather intelligent conversation with him. After exchanging harsh words, Frankenstein follows his monster into the mountains of Geneva, where he begins to listen to the story of his monster. As time goes on, Frankenstein’s creation finds a small village where he decides to rob a hut of their food, leaving the villagers furious. With the creation being severely stoned and beaten, he returns to his hut in the woods and begins to stalk a young village girl. As time alludes the Monster, his character is basically brought to his knees. With Frankenstein’s creation being forced to reside in the woodlands of Geneva, his character slowly begins realize that he his really alone. The creation, after seeing a young village girl, starts to follow her daily routes. His obsessive motives have him intrigued to learn the humans’ ways and what it means to live their lives the way they do. The monster begins to become curious and begins to have a thirst for knowledge.

Confusion (chapter 12) Development of Theme Literary Devices Frankenstein’s monster begins to slowly become more intelligent than he could have ever imagined. With Frankenstein beginning to realize that his monster is beginning to change, his monster starts to question Frankenstein’s methods. The monster exclaims to Frankenstein, “Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us” (69). By the monster questioning his creator, helps develop the theme, by showing that you can’t make everything perfect. By Frankenstein playing that role of God, his monster is confused, and basically asks, ‘if you didn’t want me, then why did you create me?’ “I am thy creature, and I will be even mild and docile to my natural lord and king, if thou wilt also preform thy part, the which thou owest me” (70). This is an example of irony, because here the creature, is telling his creator what to do. Typically it is the other way around, with the creator telling the creature what to do. Just like as parent disciplining their children, His “child” is disobeying and in a sense, “back talking” his parent. Frankenstein’s monster believes that it knows what’s best for it, and is confused and hurt that his creator is terrified of him, and believes that he is evil.

Artistic Connection Where The Wild Things Are deeply represents the monster Frankenstein created, because for the first time, the monster speaks. He starts to realizes that he is indeed a monster, and starts to feel lonely. Frankenstein realizes that for creating a monster, he in turn is one as well. Just like the book says, “There’s one is all of US”. (Chapter 12)

Be Careful What You Wish For Plot Developments Character Developments While Frankenstein’s creation is stuck observing the way the villagers live their lives, the monster starts to learn their language. The monster also learns the meaning of kindness, and what it means to care about someone. Because the monster is learning so quickly, this leaves the monster to start to question why his creator, (Frankenstein) doesn’t want him. Also, at the end of chapter 13, Frankenstein starts to care to the villagers, and has a sense to protect them from harm. As the plot thickens in chapter 13 Frankenstein’s monster starts to learn the language of the village people. Frankenstein starts to see and learn about the world that he never knew before. Frankenstein’s monster is still lost in the woods of Geneva, yet seems to enjoy learning the ways of the village people. While observing the villagers, a strange woman whom he never seen before. A the villagers greeted her, the monster begins to learn about kindness and love.

Fragile Beast Development of Theme Literary Devices As the story progresses, Frankenstein’s creation starts to question the creation of itself. With being abandoned and lonely and having to figure life out on its own, Frankenstein’s monster was an intelligent beast waiting to confront his creator. The monster uses a rhetorical question to show his confusion for what he actually was. “What was I” (87)? Frankenstein’s monster was scared and lonely. Frankenstein with leaving his creation up the time of life, the monster had no answers to his questions. In chapter 12, Frankenstein’s monster looks within a puddle and sees his reflection for the first time; causing him to see just how hideous and non-human he actually was.

Artistic Connection The Sistine Chapel is a great representation of Frankenstein and his monster’s relationship. Just like in this painting, Frankenstein (God) is always close to his creation (the monster) but never touching him. Just like this painting, Frankenstein wants to know more about his creation, and vice versa. The only difference between this to is that both were created to be loved, yet Frankenstein hates his creation, and believes that he is evil.

Ain’t Nothing but a Heart Beat Frankenstein was determined to create human life from nothing. His idea of playing God would take a turn for the worst. Frankenstein took almost two years, working day-in and day-out. He worked tirelessly creating every vain, and every blood vessel for this lifeless cavity. Frankenstein would even steal organs, arms, and other limbs from the morgue in order to give his experiment life. Crazy? Or Just crazy dedicated?

Tell me why?! Why do you think Frankenstein wanted to breathe life into an inanimate being? What do you think had to go through someone’s mind, to even come up with the idea? Do you think he was completely insane, a literal “mad scientist”? Or do you think he was just trying to test the limits of man and science?

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