1. Re-imagining Frankenstein HUM 2052: Civilization II Spring 2012 Dr. Perdigao February 22-24, 2012

2. Frankenstein (1931, 1994) http://home.avvanta.com/~dr_z/Movie/Posters/ Reprints/Images/frankenstein.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000K3UQ.01.LZZZZZZZ.gif

3. Frankenstein (1931, 1994) http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/S 2Art/RSP104~Frankenstein-Posters.jpg http://srv14.movie- list.net/bendermac/posters/mary_shelleys_frankenstein_ver2.jpg

4. Postmodern Play http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cMdbfkl3Rz4/R9tWt9ZbLUI/AA AAAAAAB7c/77NPWkkABI4/s800/mcfarlane+frankenstei n1.jpg http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Dunechaser/ Literature/shelley- victor.frankenstein.and.monster.jpg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS0XceW lGAs

5. A Monster’s Education? http://search.barnesandnoble.com/10-Books- that-Screwed-Up-the-World/Benjamin- Wiker/e/9781596980556/?itm=1#TOC

6. Table of Contents Introduction: Ideas Have Consequences 1 Preliminary Screw-Ups The Prince 7 Discourse on Method 17 Leviathan 31 Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men 41 Ten Big Screw-Ups The Manifesto of the Communist Party 57 Utilitarianism 73 The Descent of Man 85 Beyond Good and Evil 99 The State and Revolution 115 The Pivot of Civilization 127 Mein Kampf 145 The Future of an Illusion 165 Coming of Age in Samoa 177 Sexual Behavior in the Human Male 195 Dishonorable Mention The Feminine Mystique 211 Afterword: A Conclusive Outline of Sanity 227 Acknowledgments 233 Notes 235 Index 251

7. Krempe (47) Waldman (49) De Lacey Agatha Felix Safie “Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base?” (122). The Comte de Volney’s Ruins of Empires: philosophy of history Plutarch’s Parallel Lives (100 AD) Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667) “Romantic cyclopedia universalis” (271) (130) “Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination?” (131) CIV Readings

8. “My vices are the children of a forced solitude that I abhor; and my virtues will necessarily arise when I live in communion with an equal. I shall feel the affections of a sensitive being, and become linked to the chain of existence and events, from which I am now excluded.” (150) A sequel?

9. An equal? http://www.monsterlandtoys.com/video/Bride%20of% 20Frankenstein.jpg http://www.moviediva.com/MD_root/MDimages/Copy_of _BrideofF.jpg

10. Henry Clerval—as Romantic (161), idea of India Victor’s ennui Idea of the female creation— “thinking and reasoning animal” (170); destroys her (175) “Slave, I before reasoned with you, but you have proved yourself unworthy of my condescension. Remember that I have power; you believe yourself miserable, but I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you. You are my creator, but I am your master—obey!” (172) Elizabeth’s death (199) Retells story to magistrate (202), “Chinese box structure” “he or I shall perish in mortal conflict” (206)—as Beowulf? Revisions

11. Rewrites the story (213) “When younger... I believed myself destined for some great enterprise... From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition; but how am I sunk” (214) “Seek happiness in tranquility, and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries” (220) Description of creature (221) “Evil thenceforth became my good” (222): Milton “I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filed with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness” (223). “I shall collect my funeral pile” (225). Didacticism