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1 A study by Taylor Gorder
Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs as it Appears in the Novel Frankenstein A study by Taylor Gorder

2 Introduction and Background
- Abraham Maslow wrote A Theory on Human Motivation - Published in The Psychological Review - 7 stages, debatably fewer

3 Satisfied through: - Relative wealth - Life at sea Quotes: Basic Needs
“By slow degrees he recovered, and ate a little soup, which restored him wonderfully.”

4 Satisfied through: - Excess wealth Quotes: Basic Needs
“I am by birth a Genevese; and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic.”

5 Satisfied through: - Effort - Hunts and thievery Quotes: Basic Needs
“I found some of the offals that the travellers had left had been roasted, and tasted much more savoury than the berries I gathered from the trees. I tried, therefore, to dress my food in the same manner, placing it on the live embers. I found that the berries were spoiled by this operation, and the nuts and roots much improved.”

6 Satisfied through: - Adventure - Expedition and crew Quotes: Safety
Basic Safety Quotes: “You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise.” (15) “My life might have been passed in ease and luxury, but i preferred glory...” (17)

7 Satisfied through: - Wealth - Taken by the Monster Quotes: Safety
Basic Safety Quotes: “Wealth was an inferior object; but what glory would attend the discovery, if I could banish disease from the human frame, and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death!”

8 Satisfied through: - Physical prowess - Cottage squatting Quotes:
Basic Safety Quotes: “I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch; I knew, and could distinguish, nothing; but feeling pain invade me on all sides, I sat down and wept.”

9 - Intelligent conversation
Satisfied through: - Victor’s arrival - Intelligent conversation Basic Safety Companionship Quotes: “I have hired a vessel and am occupied in collecting my sailors; those whom I have already engaged appear to be men on whom i can depend and are centainly possessed of dauntless courage.” (18) “I should find no friend on the wide ocean; yet I have found a man who, before his spirit had been broken by misery, I should have been happy to have possessed as the brother of my heart.”

10 Satisfied through: - Elizabeth - The Monster Quotes: Safety Basic
Companionship Quotes: “Every one loved Elizabeth. The passionate and almost reverential attachment with which all regarded her became, while I shared it, my pride and my delight.”

11 Satisfied through: - Observations - Mate Quotes: Safety Basic
Companionship Quotes: “They were dressed in excellent clothes; and, still more, they enjoyed one another's company and speech, interchanging each day looks of affection and kindness”

12 “If I fail you will see me again soon, or never.” (18)
Satisfied through: - The crew - Adventure Basic Safety Companionship Esteem Quotes: “If I fail you will see me again soon, or never.” (18) “My life might have been passed in ease and luxury, but i preferred glory...” (17)

13 Satisfied through: - The Monster - Companionship Quotes: Esteem Safety
Basic Safety Companionship Esteem Quotes: “Good God! in what desert land have you lived, where no one was kind enough to inform you that these fancies, which you have so greedily imbibed, are a thousand years old, and as musty as they are ancient?”

14 Satisfied through: - Eloquence - Hideous appearance Quotes: Esteem
Basic Safety Companionship Esteem Quotes: “This trait of kindness moved me sensibly. I had been accustomed, during the night, to steal a part of their store for my own consumption; but when I found that in doing this I inflicted pain on the cottagers, I abstained, and satisfied myself with berries, nuts, and roots, which I gathered from a neighbouring wood.”

15 Satisfied through: - Victor - Victor’s story Quotes: Mind Esteem
Basic Safety Companionship Esteem Mind Quotes: “I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never visited.” (15-18)

16 Satisfied through: - Creating the Monster - Taken by the Monster
Basic Safety Companionship Esteem Mind Quotes: “they were turned, not towards childish pursuits, but to an eager desire to learn, and not to learn all things indiscriminately.”

17 - Watching the poor family
Satisfied through: - Becoming literate - Watching the poor family Basic Safety Companionship Esteem Mind Quotes: “This reading had puzzled me extremely at first; but, by degrees, I discovered that he uttered many of the same sounds when he read as when he talked. I conjectured, therefore, that he found on the paper signs for speech which he understood, and I ardently longed to comprehend these also...”

18 “We may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty.” (15)
Satisfied through: - View of nature - Adventure Basic Safety Companionship Esteem Mind Looks Quotes: “We may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty.” (15)

19 - Personal satisfaction - Nature setting
Satisfied through: - Personal satisfaction - Nature setting Basic Safety Companionship Esteem Mind Looks Quotes: “I remained, while the storm lasted, watching its progress with curiosity and delight. As I stood at the door, on a sudden I beheld a stream of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak which stood about twenty yards from our house; and so soon as the dazzling light vanished the oak had disappeared, and nothing remained but a blasted stump.”

20 Satisfied through: - Others and nature - Dissatisfaction Quotes: Mind
Basic Safety Companionship Esteem Mind Looks Quotes: “I had admired the perfect forms of my cottagers--their grace, beauty, and delicate complexions: but how was I terrified when I viewed myself in a transparent pool! At first I started back, unable to believe that it was indeed I who was reflected in the mirror; and when I became fully convinced that I was in reality the monster that I am, I was filled with the bitterest sensations of despondence and mortification. Alas! I did not yet entirely know the fatal effects of this miserable deformity”

21 Satisfied through: - Victor - His expedition Quotes: Mind Esteem
Basic Safety Companionship Esteem Mind Looks Self Actualization Quotes: “I felt the greatest eagerness to hear the promised narrative, partly from curiosity, and partly from a strong desire to ameliorate his fate, if it were in my power.”

22 Satisfied through: - Sought revenge - Death Quotes: Mind Esteem Safety
Basic Safety Companionship Esteem Mind Looks Self Actualization Quotes: “You may easily perceive, Captain Walton that I have suffered great and unparalleled misfortunes. I had determined, at one time, that the memory of these evils should die with me”

23 - Sought companionship - Revenge and ultimately death
Satisfied through: - Sought companionship - Revenge and ultimately death Basic Safety Companionship Esteem Mind Looks Self Actualization Quotes: “I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly, and exult in the agony of the torturing flames. The light of that conflagration will fade away; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds. My spirit will sleep in peace; or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell.”

24 Basic Safety Companionship Esteem Mind Looks Self Actualization

25 Concluding Statements
- Psychological Anomalies - - Motivation - - Stress - - Development - - Socio-Economic Status - - Personal Development - -Societal representation -

26 Questions?

27 -Transendence Logo -Victor and Monster Head Art - A Theory on Human Motivation Summary

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