2. Frankenstein Exploration Romantic Revolution Scientific Revolution Social Revolution Psychological Revolution

3. Two scenes of Creation 911-12 Many and long were the conversations between Lord Byron and Shelley, to which I was a devout but nearly silent listener. During one of these, various philosophical doctrines were discussed, and among others the nature of the principle of life, and whether there was any probability of its ever being discovered and communicated. They talked of the experiments of Dr. Darwin,... I began that day with the words, It was on a dreary night of November, making only a transcript of the grim terrors of my waking dream. 934-5 It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half- extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.

4. What is the significance of this doubling? Narrative/literary creativity is like monstrosity (male parturition) both promethean activities acts of imagination have profound social and filial consequences modern mythmaking Romantic conventions are clearly established monster becomes a profane sign of all that society rejects (race, class, gender)

5. Justine’s trial 949 Ch. 7 Justine also was a girl of merit and possessed qualities which promised to render her life happy; now all was to be obliterated in an ignominious grave, and I the cause! A thousand times rather would I have confessed myself guilty of the crime ascribed to Justine, but I was absent when it was committed, and such a declaration would have been considered as the ravings of a madman and would not have exculpated her who suffered through me. 952 “I did confess but I confessed a lie!

6. Sublime landscape 958 The next day.. 959 “Mutability” The monster