frankenstein

my ardent curiosity

16 times in book, warns about consequences of seeking knowlege without wisdom

burning ardour of my soul

foreshadows creature on fire, prometheus bound

fervent longing to penetrate the secrets of nature

fr’s sexual desires are sublimated into sceintific exploration

elixir of life

thirst for knwoledge

violent and terrible thudnerstorm

foreshadows blasted stump which is when fr’s sceintific pursuit starts, lightning is instant isnight of knowlege of future devestation

blasted stump

tree of forbidden knowlege, lightning detsorys family tree, galvani

engaged in my labortary

monomania, shoud be engagaed to eliz

days and nights in vaulst and charnel houses

gothic, unhealthy lifetyle of bodies rotting, monomania

i began the creation of a human being

hubris, socrates men being preganat in mind so frank births life in his thoughts but without knowing how to oroper;y care for it as

midnight labours

witching hour, birthing ideas and making creature

ancient mariner

frankenstein parallels ROTAM, victor is mariner, walton is sailor warning of fangers of ambition. then walton is mariner and we are sailors- epistolary novel, ambition can spread

deduce an apt moral from my tale

didactic novel, marquis de sade “ rolling of the gothic thunder is the roaring of the revolutionary cannon”

serpent to sting you

serpent in garden of eden, frank warns walton, ambition leads to downfall, the fall,

birth of that passio which afterewards ruled my destiny

ironic lang of birth to show obsession = curiosity, frank as guilty narrator blaming actions on fate

summit of my desires

sex and marriage imagery, in love with scsinec, la petite mort

the world was ro me a secret i desired to divine

hubris

i ought to be thy adam but i am rather the fallen angel

sistene chapel painting of adam reaching out to god, parallels creature reaching his hand out to frank

i was benevolent and good;misery made me a fiend

creature corrupyed by sin, aristotelian targic reversak, forced isolation makes him do bad stuff

you are my creator, i am your master

lucifer rebellinsg agisbt god parallel

cease you know not what it is you say

hubris with jesus,

my education was negelected

bad education allows creature to pursue knowlege without moral compass like frank

i have no friend magaret

loneliness makes people do bad things, seneca speaks on how important friendship is to contrast characters’ failures to find this in book

observing my friends

delulu fantasy about delaceys, ts elliot, it is creepy

i am solitarey and abhorred

attachemnt theory, self hate

i like the archfiend bore a hell within me

incel rage, paradise lost, fall from grace due to rejection from delaceys

i am malicious because i am miserbale

mankind made him evil, anger, violence

am an abortion

pinnacle of self hatred

savage inhabitant

walton descirbes frank as this. paralle to creature judged on appearance, kurt vonnegut, has shelley say “there are 2 monsters in my story and one of them,, named frankenstein”

what was before desert and gloomy should now bloom

lanscape to mirror creature;s hopesof being accepted by delaceys, ts elliot

so virtuous.. yet so vicious

fall from innocnece creature to monster due to corruption of mankind, heoric and sick lotf

sprung towards the widnow

pavlov repsonse to humans

deep consciousness of what they owed

frank recpgnises how good parents showul be , contarst to him and creature with rejection, attachemnt theory on how bonds made early shaoe your future relationships. phillip larkin

filial love

contrats to creature and frank relationship, unrelaible narrator

elizabeth as “heaven-sent”

madonna whore complex, contrats to how frank acts when eliz is alive, eulogising his dead wife

mine, mine to protect, love and cherish

evocative of wedddig vows, patriachy lang, you be mine i give you to my friend

i stretched out my hand to him

victor and father vs victor and creature, frank is hugged creature is rejected

revenge henceforth dearer than light ot food

book is revenge novel resembling greek targedy

my heart swelled with exultation and hellish triumph

schadenfreude smiling at other persons misfortune, tragic reverdal, grin of frindhsip on NOC is now mocking smile of sadistic pleasure

all judges rather that ten innocent should suffer than one guilty should escape

- inverse of blakcstone’s ratio, shelley condemns this

my confessor beseiged me

shelley condemns organised rleigion, RC, violence, she is bullied

saintly sufferer

eliz and justine are domed to suffer unfairlt

fear of ignomy and death

same line with frank and justine, we know mr kirwin’s “extreme kindness” but justine gets no care, white male privelege, hired nurse

vast and irregular plains of ice

ice is isolation, sublime, irregular is consequneces of franks choices, sea of ice - freidrich

immense mountains

longinus on the sublime that leaves us in awe, mounatins provide comfort, dido in virgils “the aeneid” killing herself on bonfire like creature will, metapgor for permamnet seperation of creature from mankind

sublime and magnificentscenes offered me the greatest consolation

romancticism, foreshapdws “bleak sklies.. are kinder to me than your fellow beings

even dante could not have conceived

dantes inferno, uncanny appearnace,

black and comfortless sky

frank broke laws of nature, nature is not comforting him

clever and gentle and extremely pretty

justine, madonan whore complex, edgar allen poe the death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetic topic in the world

i was .. hideously deformed and loathsome

internalised hate, te little black boy william blake

they concistsed of paradise lost.. and the sorrows of werter

pl- casting out of adam , fall from grace, werter - sexual love need for FC, he kills hismelf like cr will

carried off their store of winter food

reversal from creature giving food to delaceys , corrpution

mrs saville

patriacrhy, shackles of women

might become ten thousand times more malignant than her mate

we women helpless at doing good but fo evil the cleverest connivers - medea in euripides greek targedy, assumption sof women from men

purest creature on earth

madonna whore complex about eliz

thrown across the bed her head hanging down

fuseli’s the nightmare

weight of despair

albatross around neck, bad decison , guilt, rime of the ancient mariner

my ownspirit let loose.. forced to detsory all

doppelganger theory

the wretch

regret and horror at creature, pavolv response to seeing it

i shall be with you on your wedding night

said twice, funeral tolls